Heucke, Stefan: Sonata

"Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen"

for trumpet and piano

The famous Wunderhorn song 'Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen' by Gustav Mahler forms the musical background of this work commissioned by the trumpet player Griseldis Lichdi. Heucke's one-movement trumpet sonata of approximately 15 minutes' duration plays constantly with the approaching of and distancing from Mahler's original. Elements of the sonata form, multi-part song and free variation forms combine to form a many-faceted and exciting rhapsody.