Simon Höfele Review – Nobody knows

Trumpet concerts? One thinks of Haydn, Hamel, and perhaps Weinberg. But what contemporary composers have written for trumpet and orchestra appears on this new CD, recorded by Simon Hovell with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. and then three different acts, each very significant in its own character, which Höfele plays with enormous intensity and expression, in perfect unison with very good orchestra. The book begins with Christian Jost’s “Pietà,” a grim, somber, nearly half-hour epitaph to jazz saxophonist Chet Baker. This is followed by a no less original piece with Toshio Hosokawa’s “Im Nebel”, before Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s great “Nobody Knows the Problems I See”, which deals with the exploitation of the black population in the United States, sometimes something like a swing comes off. higher.

no one knows
Ghost: Beta (in Chet Baker’s memoriam), Hosokawa: In the Mist, Zimmermann: No one knows the problem I see

Simon Hovell (trumpet), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Geoffrey Patterson & Ilan Volkoff (Conductor)
Berlin classics

Simon Hovel

Born in Gross-Umstadt in 1994, Simon Höffel started playing the trumpet at the age of seven. Five years later, he took lessons from Reinhold Friedrich until he was fourteen years old when he was accepted into the trumpet class at the Karlsruhe University of Music. … More