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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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