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Historical Trumpet

ENSEMBLES:

English Baroque Soloists

(dir. Sir John Eliot Gardiner)

Gabrieli Consort and Players

(dir. Paul McCreesh)

London Handel Orchestra

(dir. Laurence Cummings)

 

Irish Baroque Orchestra

(dir. Peter Whelan)

 

Hanover Band

La Guilde des Mercenaires

(dir. Adrien Mabire)

Le Banquet Celeste

(dir. Damien Guillon)

Sestina

(dir. Mark Chambers)

 

Monteverdi String Band

 

Brecon Baroque

 

Elbipolis Barock

 

In Alto Ensemble

 

His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts

Credo from Bach's B Minor Mass
Don't judge people by their ability to do this on YouTube short clips, go and hear them live, it's much harder.

Fantini - Lip Bending
Intended to help trumpeters use scalic passing notes in the low register

Extract from recording
Muffat - Missa in Labore Requies

Directed by Damien Guillon in the Chapel Royal at Versailles

Hear the difference between a truly natural trumpet and a "vented" baroque trumpet.
Although no instruments exist from the 17th and 18th century with holes, the concept is based on mention of such a device in the treatise by
J.E. Altenburg in 1785

Handel's Messiah
Irish Baroque Orchestra / Chamber Choir Ireland
(dir. Peter Whelan)

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