Recital Music for Trumpet is a wonderful recording of unique works for trumpet by composers Robert J. Bradshaw, Cherilee Wadsworth-Walker, Thorvald Hansen and Karl Pilss. Each work was specially selected to show the performer’s skills as well as the musical varieties offered for future trumpet recitalists. The performer also facilitates the use of other instruments in the trumpet family such as the cornet and the flugelhorn, adding to the synergistic beauty of these instruments...

The first work, Sonata, composed by Robert J. Bradshaw is an exciting and forever energetic work that incorporates rock and latino rhythms and composed using a pitch set that sounds very tonal. This work has been performed throughout the world as a premiere project by the composer. James Ackley performed the work during the 2004 International Trumpet Guild Conference and again, here on this CD recording.

The second work is by an almost unknown compo...