Modern Wind Music: Trumpet

Forsyth's Modern Wind Music series contains exciting and challenging, but not unduly difficult, works by talented English composers of current or recent vintage for recital, study or recreation. Each volume includes three works with piano, one unaccompanied piece, and one piece for two or more players of the instrument. In this volume for trumpet Arthur Butterworth's Hejnal is a rousing fanfare taking as its cue the trumpet-call of the Kraków watchman. John Paynter has contributed two pieces - Epitaffio (based on a plainsong fragment) and Laudet (a brilliant toccata). Julia Usher's Ode to The West Wind is a colourful evocation with much howling and gusting, while the solo work is Geoffrey Poole's cultivated Avenue, which is partnered by his quartet for trumpets Street Music, which is somewhat less suburban with ad-lib rhythm section or synthesizer.

Contents

• Two Short Pieces i) Epitaffio ii) Laudet for B Flat Trumpet by John Paynter
• Héjnal for Trumpet in C and Piano by Arthur Butterworth
• Ode To The West Wind for B Flat Trumpet and Piano by Juliet Usher
• Avenue for B Flat Trumpet by Geoffrey Poole
• Street Music for Four B Flat Trumpets by Geoffrey Poole