The best-selling First Repertoire series has been a favourite with teachers and young players for years and has been selected on numerous exam syllabuses. Now trumpet players can enjoy the popular mix of imaginative and idiomatic arrangements and original pieces with a new collection of repertoire for grade 2 4 level players selected and edited by Deborah Calland. Ranging from baroque dances from Handel and Jeremiah Clarke to the majestic Theme from Star Wars via Johann Strauss's The Blue Danube the sparkling The Sorcerer's Apprentice and La Bamba - there is something here for every occasion.

Trumpet parts in both B flat and E flat simplified piano part and a free CD including piano backing tracks and orchestral performance extracts.Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) composed this concerto in 1803 for the keyed trumpet which had been developed by Anton Weidinger (1767-1852). Weidinger gave its first performance on New Year's Day 1804. Originally composed in the key of E it is more commonly played in Eb. The keyed trumpet was the first type of trumpet which could play chromatically but the invention was not a huge success: it suffered from a poor quality of sound. In the early 19th century the invention of the valve rendered the keyed trumpetobsolete.This edition is intended to be more user-friendly than the others currently available: there is a much easier (and dare I say more stylistic) piano accompaniment - any doubling of the solo part has been removed voicing simplified and my premise has been to imagine what it might have been before it was orchestrated rather than trying to cram in every last piece of orchestral detail.Suggested cuts in the piano part have been indicated giving a short introduction to each movement perfect for auditions recitals or exams. However the bar numbers still tally with the longer original versions which are included should they be required. The dynamics and articulation which I have added incorporate the weight of opinion in current editions and recordings offering more guidance than 'scholarly' editions without being overprescriptive.There is an appendix with suggested interpretation of trills and ornaments. Listening to as many different recordings as possible is the best way to assimilate good trills.The accompanying CD provides piano accompaniments and observes the suggested cuts. See page 38 for full track listing. There is free software available online (eg. speedshifter on the ABRSM website) which enables you to change the speed of a CD should you wish to practise slower or indeed faster.The Hummel

Where The City's Ceaseless Crowds is a piece composed for Trumpet and Piano for an experimental 1920 film 'Manhatta' which acclaimed composer Michael Nyman wrote in 2003.   The title of the piece comes from a poem by Walt Whitman called 'Mannahatta' which formed the basis of the experimental film directed by photographer Paul Strand and painter Charles Sheeler intended to explore therelationship between film and photography through a love letter to New York.   This item features the Full Score and the separate Trumpet parts.

Standard: IntermediateSix fresh new arrangements of immortal melodies from Bizet's operatic tragedy of passion betrayal and murder will be welcomed by all players of the instrument. For the Carmen Suite well-known soloist and editor Deborah Calland has chosen the Overture Séguedille Flower Song Aragonaise Card Scene and Chanson Bohème which may be performed either individually or in the dramatic sequence of the complete suite.

Published by popular demand this arrangement Edward Maxwell is transposed down a fourth so that the original Eb part can be played by Bb Trumpet in F Major. The result in an easy to play and satisfying performance piece of about grade 4 standard for the Trumpet player.Also available for download is an MP3 accompaniment from https://www.spartanpress.co.ukAlso available with a Jazz accompaniment called 'Haydn Sleek' in Edward Maxwell's 'Spiky Airs' for Trumpet and Piano/CD (SP850).The simplified Piano part requires no page turns and includes a suggested cut.

Bryan Kelly writes: The travel bug has been with me since my youth when at the age of sixteen I went to France on my bike with a tent on the back. My examining work for many years took me to many outlandish spots and I have had jobs and homes in the U.S.A. Italy France and Egypt - any wonder that this Trumpet and Piano suite is called Travelogue.