Overture in D major

composer

William Croft (1678-1727)

Musicus apparatus academicus, 1713

Recordings

Sound the Trumpet

The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (conductor)

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Details

Movement 1: [Allegro]

Michael Laird (trumpet), The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 21 on CDH55258 [1'00] Helios (Hyperion's budget label) — Last few remaining

Movement 2: Allegro

Michael Laird (trumpet), The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 22 on CDH55258 [2'17] Helios (Hyperion's budget label) — Last few remaining

Movement 3: Adagio

The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 23 on CDH55258 [1'38] Helios (Hyperion's budget label) — Last few remaining

Movement 4: Allegro

Michael Laird (trumpet), The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 24 on CDH55258 [1'53] Helios (Hyperion's budget label) — Last few remaining

Overture in D major

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William Croft’s overture is a late example of a Purcellian trumpet sonata and was also written for a ceremonial occasion: to preface one of the odes he wrote on the occasion of the awarding of his DMus degree in the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford on 13 July 1713. Perhaps Handel knew it (it was published in the fine engraved score of the odes), for the opening is oddly similar to the beginning of the fugue of the Music for the Royal Fireworks.

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