Concerti e Sonate del Barocco Italiano
What makes the program of this CD especially interesting is the fact that none of the works recorded here were originally written for trumpets and organ. This even applies to the Concerto by Johann Gottfried Walther. The only work which is not a present-day arrangement, it is nonetheless the transcription of a concerto by Tommaso Albinoni.
The art of arrangement has been practiced for centuries now. Walther's Concerto can thus be seen in a way as the "tip of the iceberg", whose main body consists of innumerable transcriptions which have never been published. They were pushed out of the forefront by the everyday needs of musicmaking, whether for princely courts, the privacy of the home or for the exercise of liturgical rites.