Sergei Nakariakov, on trumpet and flugelhorn, demonstrates the possibilities of matching the expression/nuance of string instruments..
never-mind the obvious 'metallic' association of 'brass'.

So if you played 'brass' in bands--or not--but have 'associations' with "what a trumpet/other horns always sound like"
And would like to be disabused of that expectation [?] Just for the hell-of-it:

Widmung Tribute - Hommage 'does' Paganini, Kreisler, Bartók, Debussy et al.
A peer of Marsalis (and any other brass player you recognize) Sergei IME produces more goose-bumps/minute than any recorded/live sounds I've ever heard
--on his instruments--since the (cleaned-up) wax cylinders of the 1890s.
(If you think you have no yen for brass ... he's been dubbed The Heifetz of the trumpet.)
So don't let That stop you. "Warner Classics" is label.

And yes: like all virtuosi he makes it sound easy..
[And the accompanist/pianist is, simply, Gorgeous--if That's your bag.]
Bon appetít


I've 'abided' a lot of years ... imagining such perfection. (Clearly limited-imaginations: exceeded.)


Ed: opyT

Never had an opportunity to try one; if you're going for Cs above hi-C though (as some can manage on a B-flat with apparent aplomb)
it's not the Same overtones as a piccolo, though (some of whose freqs. are probably for bats! or females, who usually outdo males >20 KHz.)

Who He?
Simplest: One of the Greats, died early last year :-/
(Heard him Live in SF way-back.)
Longer: http://en.wikipedia....iki/Maurice_Andre

Agree with a commenter: while the (improvised intro==poetic license/cadenza) was funny-while-Difficult,
the accompaniment was schmaltzy and very-un-Arban (who Wrote The Book, literally):
Have his 1+" thick Conservatory Method, written ~ time of the valved-trumpet's possibilities just emerging..
(This got dropped on my desk at ~age 11 by Bandmaster, with some wry comment [My Version]
Here, kid: learn Casta Diva by Friday a week and ...
At any rate: Arban is the Götterdammerung for any brassist; few ever get all-the-way through the etudes, practices--least of all the young/impressionable (who could gain the most, etc.) Pity. [nor did !]
Mastery of the hard-stuff there: defines virtuoso probably forever.

André played it (mostly..) As Written, as anyone trained in a French Conservatory Would!
Note the sweeter, mellower tone of the cornet + André. And, as do most proper players--he eschewed any/some heroic high-G at the end/it just doesn't fit, y'know?


Now for something completely dif.. ...
http://www.youtube.c...feature=endscreen

Music.. can make even Murica-13 palatable--no matter WHAT?! is next..