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PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 6:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd be keen to know what, in your oppinion, is the hardest piece (solo, concerto, etude, theme and variation...) that has been written for trumpet. Please post your taught considering the technical difficultie and not simply range. ( Like, of course a piece including a double high C will be really hard to play, but it may not be a technical beauty!)

The only thing that come to my head is Carnival of Venice And his 4 variation, but I don't have much knowledge in trumpet litterature, so there are probably many other difficult song to play.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 3:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Carnival of Venus - Allen Vizzutti
La Virgen De La Macarena - Rafael Mendez


Just two right off the top of my head......
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 6:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anything written by Allen Vizzutti is going to be tough. Ever listen to Firedance? Vizzutti goes from wailing double C's almost immediately into double-tounging octaives. Interestingly enough, when Aurturo does it he double-toungues double octaives .
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 6:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i believe truly that the hardest pice to ever to be played on the trumpet is Rafael Mendez version of Moto Perpetuo. He does circular breathing and double tongue at the same time for about 10 minutes i think, not sure how long the piece is. the only one who has come close to that is Wynton Marsalis, but even he couldn't double tongue and circular breathe at the same time. The rest of the trumpet literature available can be played if one works hard on it, but this particular piece is the hardest ot my knowledge.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 8:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

La Virgin de la Macarena as played by Vincent DiMartino (Mendez version with more flash and range).

Tartini Concerto

Michael Haydn Concerto

Stars and Stripes Forever piccolo part - fun to do for outdoor concerts in the summer.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 6:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Peter Maxwell Davies: Concerto for Trumpet
Allen Vizzuti: The Rising Sun
Jolivet: Concerto no. 2

Just my personal top 3.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 7:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Arturo Sandoval plays a concerto that was written for him for his Classical album. Very tough.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 7:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The following concertos are some of the hardest pieces out there unlike some of the previous mentioned pieces that are only playable by certain players such as Allen Vizzutti. These pieces are very hard but not unobtainable like The Carnival of Venus. They are: The Tomasi Concerto, The John Williams Concerto, The Vainberg Concerto, The Malcolm Arnold Concerto, The Tartini Concerto, etc...
The list is much longer but there are a few to start with. In my opinion, I think the Tomasi Concerto is probably the hardest concerto with the John Williams coming quite close.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 7:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"Space is a Diamond" as recorded by Gerard Schwarz. Scary, plain and simple....not the piece, the perfection of the playing.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 7:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nope..ya'll are all wrong..it's the second time thru the shout chorus of "Shiny Stockings".
In the 4th set. :^)
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's too bad that Gerard gave up playing the trumpet. He is a great conductor, but man he could play.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 12:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hardest piece - depends on what you can do.

Someone has already mentioned the Malcolm Arnold concerto. For me, that is not too hard at all, I actually enjoy playing it. It just seems to fit under my fingers and lips.
For many players Brandenburg 2 would rank very high (pun intended ) on their lists. Not only is it quite a difficult piece as a trumpet part, but the real challenge comes with trying to be an equal to a violin, oboe and a recorder! That high and that delicate is the real challenge!
Especially if you try it on a natural trumpet!!

For me, some of the insane writing of Vizzutti has got to rank as virtually unplayable. The guy is a freak of nature.

I know many excellent technical players, but if you give them a slow melody they will make nothing of it. They are incredible at finger waggling and their tongues can go at ludicrous speed, but there is very little music happening, in my view. A slow melody played well is just as hard as any piece filled with demisemiquavers!

Saying all that - give me a piece with chord symbols on and I am completely stuffed! Even if they are so simple that I can work them out (no often) I find putting together a coherent line next to impossible. It's just something I have never had to learn how to do. I specialise in baroque piccolo trumpet playing - not much call for improvised solos!
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 8:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My vote is for "Space is a Diamond". or Gaburo's "Mouthpiece".
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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On 2004-03-19 09:52, NIKE_07032 wrote:
the only one who has come close to that is Wynton Marsalis, but even he couldn't double tongue and circular breathe at the same time.


By couldn't, do you mean "couldn't" or "didn't". There's a big difference.

Wynton plays a pretty damn near impossible solo on Standard Time Vol. 4(Marsalis Plays Monk) on cut #6 (Four in One). The melody is hard at enough at the taken tempo and then Wynton just blows me away when I hear the technical proficiency on his solo.

I think the Del Stager(sp?) is harder than the Arban, but those before are right, Vizzuti tops in all.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sergei Nakariakov can double tounge and circular breathe at the same time. If you go over to his site at http://www.nakariakov.com , there's a video clip of him circular breathing at one point while double tounging. It's hard to catch, but it's definately there.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 3:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pretty much anything Allen Vizzuti plays is insane. He came by here not too long ago and it was amazing. one of the movements of one off his songs(I think it was called "Bullet Train")was incredible. He circular breaths and double tongues in that song.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 8:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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the only one who has come close to that is Wynton Marsalis, but even he couldn't double tongue and circular breathe at the same time



Actually, Wynton does the circular breathing throught "Moto Perpetual", and I think it would be much more difficult to do Wynton's version, slurring the entire piece.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 10:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Henderson Variations for solo trumpet.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 6:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Josef Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E Flat Major third movement

I have a copy and can only play a few bars!
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tomasi Concerto.....!!!!!!!
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