Jonathan Freeman-Attwood and Chiyan Wong - Richard Strauss and the Viennese Trumpet (2020)

Tracklist

01. A Sonata for Trumpet and Piano "After Richard Strauss": I. Allegro energico
02. A Sonata for Trumpet and Piano "After Richard Strauss": II. Andante cantabile
03. A Sonata for Trumpet and Piano "After Richard Strauss": III. Rondo
04. Sonata (from K. 347 and K. 367): I. Grave
05. Sonata (from K. 347 and K. 367): II. Allegro
06. Sonata (from K. 347 and K. 367): III. Adagio
07. Sonata (from K. 347 and K. 367): IV. Allegro
08. Sonata in G Minor, D. 408: I. Allegro giusto
09. Sonata in G Minor, D. 408: II. Andante
10. Sonata in G Minor, D. 408: III. Menuetto – Trio
11. Sonata in G Minor, D. 408: IV. Allegro moderato
12. Ave Maria III
13. Six Songs After Poems by Maurice Maeterlinck, Op. 13: III. Lied der Jungfrau
14. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: XI. Urlicht
15. Two Pieces: I. G Major: Langsam
16. Seven Variations on ‘God Save the King’, WoO 78



Works by Fux, Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler, Bruckner, Webern and Zemlinsky alongside a newly imagined Strauss trumpet sonata.

Building on his highly successful transcriptions of sonatas by Fauré, Grieg, Mendelssohn and Schumann, Freeman-Attwood pushes the boundaries further delivering a fully realised trumpet sonata which Strauss did not write. This innovative approach embraces various levels of transcription, transformation, realignment and composition to create a significant new contribution to the trumpet repertoire, full of the gloriously idiomatic writing for which Strauss is renowned. The material is variously drawn from the first movement of Strauss’s Violin Sonata Op. 18, a combination of both light and very significant arrangements of miscellaneous music, newly composed music, and development or transitions based on existing material within the Sonata itself.

Accompanying Freeman-Attwood is pianist Chiyan Wong, who was awarded the prestigious 40th Grand Prix du Disque by the Franz Liszt Society.

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