Suddenly Roger Voisin asked me why I didn't write a trumpet solo for him to play with the orchestra that would be different from traditional trumpet solos which are all loud, martial or triumphant.

The BPO wisely flipped the order of the program so that the concert began with the much more traditional trumpet concerto by Haydn, which Pacho Flores definitely made his own, with a few edits ...

St Mary’s Trumpet Call, or Hejnał Mariacki, has been played in Kraków’s Main Square on a daily basis since the 14th century to signal the time. This highly traditional tune is known to almost every ...