Hardenbergerroyal Stockholm - French Trumpet Concertos

During the second half of the 19th century, a French school of trumpet playing was established, with French musicians and composers at the forefront of the instrument�s musical and technical development. As a result, it was entrusted with a more prominent role within the orchestra and soon also as a solo instrument. On the present disc, H�kan Hardenberger � who like so many other leading trumpet players studied in Paris � presents some of the fruits of this development: five important French works composed between 1944 and 1977. With the support of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Fabien Gabel � who incidentally began his career as a trumpet player � he opens the disc with Henri Tomasi�s Trumpet Concerto. Often performed and recorded, it here appears on disc for the first time with its original, longer ending, reconstructed from a newly discovered manuscript.