Everyone knows what a trumpet sounds like - except that they don't. During Saturday's engrossing concert by the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the Italian trumpeter Gabriele Cassone introduced most ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AS MUSICAL tastes were changing and baroque trumpets were falling out of favour with composers ...

However, the development of the modern valved trumpet in the early 19th century quickly consigned the keyed version to the dustbin of history. Italian trumpeter Gabriele Cassone is a leading exponent ...

THE keyed trumpet is one of those transitionary pieces of technology, like Betamax and blimps, bridging a gap from the baroque trumpet (basically a length of brass tubing) to the modern trumpet (still ...