{"product_id":"matthias-hofs_trumpet-double-concertos-cd_2026_disco-outhere-distribution-france","title":"Trumpet Double Concertos","description":"The famous trumpeter Matthias Höfs performed and then recorded the concertos by Fazil Say and Wolf Kerschek during his artist residency with the Munich Radio Orchestra. These two concertos were originally written for Matthias Höfs. Fazil Say is one of the most important and renowned contemporary pianists and composers, whose works continue to reach a wide audience. Wolf Kerschek is a composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz musician from Hamburg, as well as a professor of jazz theory, composition, and film music. His new concerto \"The Four Elements\" is recorded as a world premiere on this album. With \"Double Concertos for Trumpet,\" Matthias Höfs once again explores new musical horizons. This new album by the exceptional Hamburg trumpeter, scheduled for release on May 15, 2026, on Berlin Classics, is the impressive result of his innovative artistic spirit and deep curiosity for the unprecedented. Anyone following Höfs's career knows that he never seeks mere virtuosity, but rather dialogue, encounter—with instruments, musicians, and timbres. The two concertos on this recording are a perfect illustration of this. Composed during his artist residency with the Munich Radio Orchestra, they were written especially for him by internationally renowned pianist and composer Fazil Say and Hamburg sound visionary Wolf Kerschek. Two personalities with radically different approaches—and yet united by their openness to new worlds of trumpet music. Fazil Say, whose music has long held a prominent place in the musical landscape, opens his sound universe to an unprecedented dimension: accompanied on the organ by Christian Schmitt and carried by the rhythmic and inspiring percussion of Mustafa Aykut Köselerli, a vibrant and pulsating soundscape unfolds. Even typically Oriental instruments find their place, breaking the sacred solemnity of the organ and freeing it into the concert hall—a space both colorful, imbued with humor and gravity. Composed in 2020, during the moments of silence imposed by the world, this work is a dialogue with and around the instrument, but also an exploration of new horizons. The second work on the album, Wolf Kerschek's double concerto \"Die vier Elemente\" (The Four Elements), is a world premiere imbued with a particular warmth, both musical and emotional. The fruit of a long friendship with Matthias Höfs, it is marked by mutual trust and playful humor. What father and son—Matthias and Tillmann Höfs—unfold here in the dialogue between trumpet and horn oscillates between dark, earthy depth, blazing incandescence, and airy clarity. Kerschek creates luminous sound spaces where every pulse, every line vibrates intensely; he composes for a connection between two soloists who appear \"as one body with two souls.\" Cutting-edge instrumental technology—from the double-bell trumpet to the soprano horn—gives rise to unsuspected sound spectra.","brand":"Matthias Höfs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57483637981528,"sku":null,"price":20260515.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/matthias-hofs_trumpet-double-concertos-cd_2026_disco-outhere-distribution-france","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}