The program of the album leads from Haydn to Hummel and Copland to Arutjunjan. It spans 150 years from 1800 to 1950 and three continents. Each work illuminates a different facet of the trumpet. Hummel and Haydn's fanfare-like brilliance, Copland's long string lines and finest volume nuances and Arutjunjan's feather-light to massive virtuosity. All works have been recorded countless times. Simon H?fele, however, breathes his very individual breath into them. "If I think that some people might like my recordings and enjoy them, then that's enough reason for me. His interpretation sounds quite naturally different - "not because I want to do something different," he says, "but because I simply feel the music differently. He is assisted by conductor Duncan Ward, Hummel and Haydn by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra from Glasgow and Copland and Arutjunjan by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales from Cardiff.
