Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,21 Nov 1996,4 mins

Trumpet

Going Solo

Available for over a year

One of the oldest instruments known to man - found in the tomb of Tutankhamen - the trumpet's metal tubing is bent into at least one loop, with valves that add or subtract notes. With music The Big Turtle Fanfare From the South China Sea by Hungarian composer Gyorgy Sandor Ligeti, and Sonatina for solo trumpet by Hans Werner Henze, both played by Hakan Hardenberger.

Programme Website
More episodes