Antoine Reicha’s L’Arte de varier tantalises before you’ve heard a note; the composer’s Opus 57, its theme followed by 57 variations. Reicha was an exact contemporary of Beethoven and reportedly the ...

Make no attempt to categorize Josh Rzepka. He's a trumpet player, all right. But once you establish this obvious fact, it isn't wise to pigeonhole the 25-year-old musician. What's clear about the ...

Maurice Andre, a onetime coal miner who left the pits as a boy and rose to become one of classical music’s most acclaimed trumpeters, an undisputed master of aural grace, died Feb. 25 at a hospital in ...

David Mason, a classical musician best known for his distinctive piccolo trumpet solo on the Beatles’ recording of “Penny Lane,” has died. He was 85. Mason died April 29 after a brief battle with ...

As she takes over the Cheltenham Music Festival, star trumpeter Alison Balsom tells Ivan Hewett why she’s on a mission "Why do we call this music ‘classical’? It’s because it has stood the test of ...