Absolute Classics for Trumpet Quartet

Duration: 26 Pieces
Price: £35
Difficulty: Grade 5-8 Students // Professionals to sight-read
Instrumentation: 4 Trumpets

Welcome to Absolute Classics for Trumpet Quartet, a 2025 new release. This selection of varied pieces from the symphonic and classical repertoire is the culmination of many years of arranging for all types of brass ensemble, bespoke-condensed into palatable, fun and charming arrangements for 4 trumpets.

Designed for the various sections I coach in my teaching (NCO, NYO, Brass Academy and schools) this selection is curated for fun collaborative practice with strong intermedate players, or a delightful playthrough with advanced or professional level colleagues. 

There is something of every playing type to work on in this book: heavy pesante low notes, light airy Bach lines, tuning and chord progressions, blistering double tonguing, bold march tunes and stunning romantic melodies! All these wonderful challenges come in the form of performable audience-favourite and exceptionally well-known pieces.

Contents:

  1. Charpentier – Prelude, Te Deum
  2. Roussel – Fanfare for a Sacred Place
  3. Strauss – Also Sprach Zarathustra (Opening)
  4. Grieg – Halling
  5. Tchaikovsky – Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
  6. Elgar – Salut d’Amour
  7. Khachaturian – Sabre Dance
  8. Trad. – Mexican Hat Dance
  9. Prokofiev – Montagues and Capulets
  10. Piazzola – Libertango
  11. Saint-Saëns – Danse Macabre
  12. Mendelssohn – Bridal March
  13. Suppé – Light Cavalry Overture
  14. Rossini – William Tell
  15. Dvořák – Theme from ‘New World’ Symphony
  16. Fauré – Pavane
  17. Grieg – Morning Mood
  18. Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 6 Mov. 2
  19. Mahler – Theme from Symphony No. 1
  20. Joplin – The Entertainer
  21. Gounod – Soldier’s March from Faust
  22. Beethoven – Theme from Symphony No. 5
  23. Bach – Invention I
  24. Bach – Invention VI
  25. Bach – Invention IV
  26. Trad. – Simple Gifts

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