The picture of the middle-aged French trumpet pedagogue Guy Touvron on the cover of this disc is misleading, for the program combines two much earlier recordings; one was made in 1970, when Touvron was all of 20 years old, and the other, sonically quite distinct despite the identical recording location and subsequent digital remastering, was done five years later. They were recordings made during the first wave of Baroque music's popularity, and they contained a few hits: the Fanfare from Jean-Baptiste Mouret's Suite des ...
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The picture of the middle-aged French trumpet pedagogue Guy Touvron on the cover of this disc is misleading, for the program combines two much earlier recordings; one was made in 1970, when Touvron was all of 20 years old, and the other, sonically quite distinct despite the identical recording location and subsequent digital remastering, was done five years later. They were recordings made during the first wave of Baroque music's popularity, and they contained a few hits: the Fanfare from Jean-Baptiste Mouret's Suite des symphonies, Book 2, No. 1 is better known as the theme to television's Masterpiece Theater. The "Baroque trumpet" referred to in the album title is simply Baroque music for trumpet; the trumpet involved is not a valveless Baroque instrument. These recordings were probably inspired by the success of Maurice André's recordings of Baroque trumpet music, which showed the world how festive Baroque music for trumpet and organ could be; Touvron, who wrote a biography of André, plays in the...
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