The sonatas rework and amplify Mozart's existing materials, inflecting them with idiomatic trumpet writing to achieve the fluency and expressive subtlety of his violin sonatas.
Performer Biography
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, the trumpet player on this album, is the fourteenth Principal of the Royal Academy of Music, London, a post he has held since 2008.
Composition History
These four sonatas, created by Timothy Jones, are a "belated apology" to Mozart from trumpet players, imagining what chamber music he might have written for a more advanced trumpet.
Compositional Technique
The four sonatas on this album allude to the distinctions between music for the church, the domestic sphere, theatre, and emerging salon culture in the late 18th century.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The album expands trumpet chamber repertoire with four classical-style sonatas, drawing on varied styles and periods in Mozart's music.
Composer Biography
Mozart, as a child, was reportedly terrified of the trumpet when played alone, to the point of growing pale and nearly collapsing.
Performer Biography
Anna Szałucka, the pianist on this album, won the First Prize and four Special Awards at the 3rd Tallinn International Piano Competition in 2016.
