You have but four more days to take advantage of ArkivMusic’s weeklong anniversary sale. To celebrate seven years of business, the store has placed every recording on sale for seven days. So kill two birds with one stone and stimulate the economy while helping the faltering recording business. And get more music to listen to; that’s the most appealing reason. Among the many prizes are the newest CSO Resound release, Mahler’s First Symphony with Bernard Haitink conducting. Play it with great loudness.
The image above is actually an album cover - white, of course - for pianist Alexandre Tharaud’s new Erik Satie album. Tharaud is always worth hearing, but the second disc of the set includes a duet with trumpeter David Guerrier. Born in 1984, he was a trumpet prodigy who won all the awards (the Maurice Andre Competition in 2000, when he was 16) and who ultimately gave up playing trumpet full-time. He’s now a co-principal hornist of the French National Orchestra, a move that I think must be equivalent to taking up the cello because the violin is too easy.
Here he is avec trompette whizzing through “Green Hornet,” a song which was, the video’s title tells us, used in Kill Bill.