SKU: HL.48024944
Trumpet and Piano.
Composed by Jonathan
Freeman-Attwood and
Thomas Oehler. Boosey &
Hawkes Chamber Music.
Softcover. 114 pages.
Boosey & Hawkes
#M060136528. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48024944).
ISBN
9781784545543. UPC:
840126946819.
9.25x12.0x0.337
inches.
If there
was ever a composer in
the modern era from whom
instrumentalists would
hanker for a sonata or
concerto, Richard Strauss
must be right up there.
His wide-ranging
orchestral and operatic
creations bleed with
gloriously idiomatic
writing for every
instrument, and yet only
the piano, violin,
clarinet (in tandem with
the bassoon), oboe and
horn can really claim to
have bespoke solo works
from the composer's
seamlessly productive
pen, and collectively
they form only a small
proportion of the
composer's output. No
mere transcription, this
three-movement Sonata
after Richard Strauss
extends well beyond a
redeployment of the
composer's music to fit a
new idiom, filling the
gaping chasm of 'serious'
late-Romantic recital
material for trumpet
players, to be performed
in toto or as Drei
Konzertstücke. Thomas
Oehler and Jonathan
Freeman-Attwood have
drawn on a wide range of
Strauss's works to create
the new offering,
including the Violin
Sonata, Von den
Hinterweltlern (Also
sprach Zarathustra), the
Serenade for Winds ('From
an invalid's workshop')
and Zerbinetta's Aria
(Ariadne auf Naxos).
Nathan Richard
