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It is the instrument that sets an ensemble alight, it's brilliant tone soaring high over orchestras and jazz groups alike. Now, the Essential Trumpet captures all those scintillating moments - a classical greatest hits collection in the tradition of the Essential, Piano, Guitar and Violin. Hear why composers from Handel to Mahler have used the trumpet to herald the entry into heaven, and why the greatest players like John Foster and Geoffrey Payne occupy a hallowed place among the world's virtuoso instrumentalists.