The celebrated French trumpeter Maurice André loved to claim that the lung power required to play the trumpet as he did was sufficient to inflate a lorry tyre! The fragrant Alison Balsom looks too ...

Internationally-acclaimed trumpeter Alison Balsom joins Frances Fyfield to study the manuscript of Johann Hummel's famous, and famously challenging, Trumpet Concerto. Show more Johann Hummel was a ...

Swedish trumpet virtuoso Håkan Hardenberger takes us on a tour of the French school of brass in his new album with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Featuring concertos by Henri Tomasi, ...

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Stacy Blair, who lost nearly all his sight at birth, played for his guide dog Guthrie in 1998. He was a soloist with orchestras in several cities, including Dallas. Stacy Blair was never able to see ...

This week's guest on the Gramophone Podcast is trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth, who talks to Editor Martin Cullingford about her new recording on the Lawo label. Called 'Echoes', it features works by ...

Sergei Nakariakov has broken through more than a few of the perceived boundaries framing the world of the trumpet in classical music. Dubbed "The Paganini of the trumpet" by the Finnish press after a ...

Catherine Bott presents a programme of music by the 17th century Italian composer and virtuoso violinist, Giuseppe Torelli. Most famous for his trumpet concertos, Torelli also wrote many wonderful ...