Uploaded November 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Full-length recording of the 'Trumpet Tune' from Act 5 of Purcell's opera King Arthur, performed by AAM principal trumpeters, David Blackadder and Philip Bainbridge.
This trumpet tune heralds Arthur and the Britons preparing to storm the castle, in Act 5 of the opera.
Arthur and the Britons are getting ready for their assault when Oswald (King of Kent, a Saxon and a heathen) emerges to challenges Arthur, his rival, in a duel for the hand of Emmeline (daughter of Conon, King of Cornwall and Tributary to King Arthur) and the crown. They fight, and Arthur disarms Oswald. Arthur spares Oswald, and insists that he and his Saxons return to Germany (Britons "brook no Foreign Power/ To Lord it in a Land, Sacred to Freedom.")
Arthur is reunited with Emmeline and Purcell's King Arthur then concludes with a celebratory masque.
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MUSIC
Trumpet Tune, Act 5
from King Arthur (or, The British Worthy), Z.628 [c.1690-1691]
music by Henry Purcell, libretto by John Dryden
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC
director: Richard Egarr
leader: Kati Debretzeni
trumpets: David Blackadder, Philip Bainbridge
Recorded at All Saints, Tooting, London
September 2017
Music Producer: Tim Oldham
Balance Engineer: Andrew Mellor
Filming: Guy Wigmore
Project: Season Sessions 17-18
with grateful thanks to the AAM Strategic Recording Fund
Full-length recording of the 'Trumpet Tune' from Act 5 of Purcell's opera King Arthur, performed by AAM principal trumpeters, David Blackadder and Philip Bainbridge.
This trumpet tune heralds Arthur and the Britons preparing to storm the castle, in Act 5 of the opera.
Arthur and the Britons are getting ready for their assault when Oswald (King of Kent, a Saxon and a heathen) emerges to challenges Arthur, his rival, in a duel for the hand of Emmeline (daughter of Conon, King of Cornwall and Tributary to King Arthur) and the crown. They fight, and Arthur disarms Oswald. Arthur spares Oswald, and insists that he and his Saxons return to Germany (Britons "brook no Foreign Power/ To Lord it in a Land, Sacred to Freedom.")
Arthur is reunited with Emmeline and Purcell's King Arthur then concludes with a celebratory masque.
Subscribe: youtube.com/user/acadofancientmusic
Website: aam.co.uk
Facebook: facebook.com/academyofancientmusic
Twitter: twitter.com/aamorchestra
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MUSIC
Trumpet Tune, Act 5
from King Arthur (or, The British Worthy), Z.628 [c.1690-1691]
music by Henry Purcell, libretto by John Dryden
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC
director: Richard Egarr
leader: Kati Debretzeni
trumpets: David Blackadder, Philip Bainbridge
Recorded at All Saints, Tooting, London
September 2017
Music Producer: Tim Oldham
Balance Engineer: Andrew Mellor
Filming: Guy Wigmore
Project: Season Sessions 17-18
with grateful thanks to the AAM Strategic Recording Fund
