Listeners have heard a quartet of bassoons on the air, and also a quintet of clarinets. Today they are to hear the first broadcast of a quintet of trumpets.
This is something of a novelty, and it is most unusual to hear five trumpets doing the work of strings and woodwind. The Alwyn Teasdale Quintet plays all kinds of music from grand opera to swing.
The Quintet consists of four
B flat trumpets and a bass trumpet. Teasdale himself leads in most items, but the arrangements are such that each player gets his share of responsibility.