Little is known about this composer; born in Bohemia, Johann Baptist Georg Neruda lived the last 30 years of his life as a violinist and composer in Dresden. In 1974 the trumpet player David R. Hickman published the present Trumpet concerto in E flat major by Neruda and thus rewarded himself and his colleagues with one of the altogether most popular solo concertos for trumpet. Succinctly indicated “Corno Primo”, the solo part of the autograph manuscript (housed at the National Museum Prague) suggests the popular corno da caccia, often also used by Bach and Händel. And speaking of a modern instrument, its sound can be rendered most adequately by a trumpet – how fortunate for the repertory of the early classical era!

Contents:

Sheep May Safely Graze (J.S. Bach)

• The Daisies (Barber)

• Polovetzian Dance from Prince Igor (Borodin)

• Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke)

• Orfeo’s Lament from Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck)

• Minuet from L’Allegro, il penseroso ed il Moderato (Handel)

• Minuet from Music for the Royal Fireworks (Handel)

• Siciliana from L’Allegro, il penseroso ed il Moderato (Handel)

• To a Wild Rose from Woodland Sketches, Op.51, No. 1 (MacDowell)

• A Lover and His Lass (Morley) • Trumpet Tune (Purcell)

• The Pirate King from The Pirates of Penzance (Sullivan).

One of the best-loved trumpet concertos today is actually a horn concerto: Neruda composed it in about 1750 at the Dresden Court, where he met the greatest horn virtuosos of the day. As a result, the solo part is immensely demanding and is kept in the upper clarino register throughout (up to g»’), which means that only a few horn players today can master it, even on the modern valve horn. But on the trumpet, however, these difficulties do not apply. This new edition by G. Henle Publishers is based on the only extant manuscript source, which is held in Prague. It takes modern performance practice into account and thus also contains parts for trumpet in E flat and in B flat. As an Urtext edition – and in contrast to earlier editions – it forgoes the articulation and dynamic markings that have otherwise been added so freely, and thereby enables us to have an unbiased view of the original notation.

• Variations on Le Carneval de Venise 
• Valse Brillante 
• Fantasie Brillante 
• Flight Of The Bumble Bee 
• The Last Rose Of Summer 
• Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child 
• Perpetual Motion 
• Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms 
• Grand Russian Fantasia 
• The Debutante