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Aaron Copland (1900-1990 : U.S.A) Conductor: Jonathan Sheffer Ensemble: Eos Orchestra Record label: Sony Classcial Catalogue ID: 82876 616302

Aaron Copland Conductor: Wing Commander Duncan Stubbs Ensemble: Central Band of the Royal Air Force Record label: Decca Catalogue ID: 2747512

Aaron Copland (1900-1990 : U.S.A) Conductor: Antal Dorati Ensemble: Detroit Symphony Orchestra Record label: Decca (UMO)

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809 : Austria) Ensemble: German Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra of Bremen Soloists: Alison Balsom Record label: EMI Classics Catalogue ID: 50999 21621307

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809 : Austria) Ensemble: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra Soloists: Tine Thing Helseth Record label: Simax Catalogue ID: PSC 1292

Trumpet Concerto (1) artwork

Trumpet Concerto (1) Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Trumpet Concerto (2) artwork

Trumpet Concerto (2) Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Trumpet Concerto (3) artwork

Trumpet Concerto (3) Johann Nepomuk Hummel

John Stanley Conductor: Anthony Newman Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra Soloists: Wynton Marsalis Record label: SONY Catalogue ID: 88697 095792

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The top 10 best pieces of music by Haydn.

10 greatest pieces of classical music by Haydn

Trumpeter creates mesmerising sound wave visualisation using fire

Trumpeter uses actual fire to create mesmerising soundwave visualisation

Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Elgar Cello Concerto; Alison Balsom plays Haydn Trumpet Concerto; Anne-Sophie Mutter plays Williams Violin Concerto No.2

The 20 greatest concertos in classical music

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Trumpeter Matilda Lloyd performs a Puccini aria in a beautiful stairwell acoustic.

Trumpeter finds extraordinary church stairwell acoustic, plays opera’s greatest tune

Bugler sounds the Last Post

What is The Last Post and why is it played on Remembrance Day?

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Alison Balsom is an award-winning trumpet soloist

‘To diminish music in education is a really big mistake’ – star trumpeter Alison Balsom

John Blanke, Trumpet

Meet John Blanke, Henry VIII’s highly favoured trumpeter and the face of Black Tudor England

Alison Balsom reveals her Top 5 Trumpet Concertos of all time

Star trumpeter Alison Balsom reveals the top five trumpet concertos of all time

A Ukrainian musician plays the National Anthem in a metro station being used as a bomb shelter

Ukrainian trumpeter’s solo national anthem echoes through underground shelter

Paul McCartney asked an English trumpeter to play a painfully high piccolo trumpet solo for ‘Penny Lane’

When Paul McCartney asked an English trumpeter to play a painfully high piccolo trumpet solo for ‘Penny Lane’

Trumpeter Alison Balsom takes part in landmark Covid-19 study for musicians

Covid study with trumpeter Alison Balsom reveals brass-playing is safer than talking

This trumpeter’s ‘Star Wars’ rendition in a deserted stairwell will give you goosebumps

This trumpeter’s ‘Star Wars’ fanfare in a deserted stairwell will give you goosebumps

Trumpet plastic bottle mute

These trumpeters used plastic bottles as mutes, because… conductor said so

Woman’s extraordinary ‘mouth trumpet’ playing is taking TikTok by storm

Woman’s extraordinary ‘mouth trumpet’ playing is taking TikTok by storm

Meet trumpeter Clarence Adoo

This incredible technology allows a paralysed trumpeter to make music again

US orchestra study finds trumpet ‘riskiest’ instrument for spreading COVID-19

US orchestra study finds trumpet ‘riskiest’ instrument for spreading COVID-19