Handel's Water Music Suite for Baroque Trumpet - www.natemayfield.com

[BigDaddyOldDude]

Absolute beauty. I can't get the baroque trumpet sound out of ny head. I need to learn this instrument!!

[carloko08]

Que genial interpretacion la de este Natán, una de las mejores que eh escuchado, la trompeta barroca es un intrumento de un sonido extraordinario, el mas clasico de la mejor época de la musica, felicitaciones a Natan y gracias por subir este video

[SuperTB4]

schon, aber ist es so toll? es war ganz gut, aber wirklich diesen Lob kommt von leute die nie so was erleben könnten. Mit barock Trompeten gibts wirklich viel mehr beeindruckendere Auffuhrungen.

[ed0621415]

Gostei muito de te emcontrado esse arquivo no Yutube parabens :)

[sirbuick]

Nate I play trumpet myself. What a beautiful sound you make with this instrument. I won't say congratulations but I will say kudos. You made my heart soar with this bit of music, I'm actually crying a bit :D

[antripod123]

Nathan, is this available on DVD?

[antripod123]

Well played Nathan!

[dutchbikerbloke]

@natemayfield, thnx for posting this video of one of Haendels gratest music parts, here performed by a master of the Baroc Trumpet.

It sounds as great and pure as it should sound......

[antripod123]

Why did this style of music have to die :(. It was so good!

[kevinwwjd2]

@antripod123 Apparently, Baroque music still lives, just do a YouTube search for Baroque music .

[sirbuick]

@antripod123 I just made love to my wife to this track, it was perfect! Both the music and the sex. I hope Handel is in whatever form of heaven may exist. For creating this, he deserves it!

[phattrumpet]

it really is a difficult instrument to play, and he sounds so perfect on it

[peteacher52]

Thank you Nate! You have played some movements of the Watermusic I'd not heard before. Your artistry on your instrument deserves the highest accolades, and I'm sure Herr Handel would concur, were he able!

[Naturton1234]

Nice work!!!

[lynchmobb2000]

To indeed be a god!

[mrminimuzza]

I loved it even more when I saw that Jerry Springer was conducting.

[fattchance6]

I believe what got me hooked on classical music was hearing it on authentic period instruments. I believe that these old instruments are not as acoustically pure as modern day instruments. They seem to have “personality” all their own. I was told that they are much more difficult to play. To me the sound is like “night and day”.

[carsearch2001]

Great sound; old school synthesizing was changing the pitch (sound and sould) via redesign of the instrament.

[rustydog1236]

VEry Nice! ARe there holes in the trumpet? He appears to fingering it...

[Zakapetty]

@rustydog1236 Yes, they are intonation holes that are used to help the musician compensate for tonality considering the trumpet can only play the notes of the harmonic scale without "lipping" up or down.

[AndyHirt]

@Zakapetty They say that if you make the instrument as it was then, you don't need tone hole openings. They used to bend rectangles of metal around a mandrel and solder the edges together, BUT they'd put the bad side of the metal inside. This supposedly makes a 'blattier' sound, but makes the note much easier to bend. A period mouthpiece helps too, but no one really plays on these. Today, the yards are of drawn metal. Nate's using a natural trumpet, not a Baroque trumpet. He's great.

[ion507]

what a fabulous sound

[barteklala]

Marvelous performance...

[miroyoigo]

Que sonido más naturla el de la trompeta barroca !!! Me gusta más esta música interpretada por instrumentos originales.

[42SV692s]

Hope this was helping, to achieve your goal of getting yourslef a baroque trumpet.

Best regards

HC

[wcbowser]

nice

[mhstpt]

Nate, you amaze me! I especially like how you stay so much more in tune than most playing the natural trumpet out there. I can't even get that pure a tone on a conventional picc! Thanks! - Mark

[csgilmer]

Thank you Mr. Mayfield!

[stopudovdurik]

Respekt!!!!!!! Gut gemacht!!!!!

[1907Quarter]

If I can ask, what is he doing with his right hand everytime there are higher harmonic series notes that are to be played? It's as if he is thinking of valves to be pressed even though there aren't any...

[mortson978]

It's called a vented trumped. The thumb hole is pretty standard, it creates a node, and raises the entire harmonic series by a perfect fourth. The other holes are known as cheater holes, and are used to create half step intervals. I'm not exactly sure if they had vented trumpets in the baroque period, but the vented notes are considerably quieter than the normal notes.

[1907Quarter]

so then what he's using is not a natural trumpet ?!

[mortson978]

well i suppose if you want to get technical about it, the title says baroque trumpet, not natural trumpet.

[barteklala]

@1907Quarter it is a Clarinet trumpet.

[theguitarstrumpet]

i think it's almost like the keys on a clarinet or maybe just holes like a recorder

[thomasgel]

Bravo!

[harpsichordRB]

Congratulation, Excellent!!!

Thank you!

[jejazz13]

what trumpet is that?

[alextro54]

natural trumpet

[jelf48]

Very well done, thanks

[katsandroses]

Magnificent !

[Cazzay16]

this was a lush perfomance the soft, round sound that your playing sounds amazing and you'de never get that out of a Bb normal trumpet. i have to have a go at this type it would be fun :) nice performance :) and range :)

[HoustonTrumpet]

Eklund is also great, for sure (he sometimes does concerts with Nate Mayfield, by the way), but I urge you to go hear Nate Mayfield at a live concert when you get the chance. He is incredible, and still remains my favorite baroque trumpet player of all time. His online videos here are nice, but there is nothing like hearing him perform live.

[ritamaria55]

Super, I really do like this. Thanks

[HoustonTrumpet]

Wow!!! What a performance! The baroque trumpet is such a challenge to play, and yet Nate Mayfield plays it with such beauty and with amazing accuracy. If you ever get a chance to hear him play live (as I have), you will be even more impressed because he sounds even better live and in person. He is truly THE premiere modern-day master of the baroque trumpet. (And sounds really great on modern instruments as well.)

[Imhof44]

@HoustonTrumpet Very good playing of a natural trumpet.He is nearly up to the standard of Michael Laird.I stood 15 feet from him playing the trumpet suite in F.It drilled me to the floor and made my hair stand on end!!!

[Credos2]

Very nice performance!

[frikk22]

I`m deeply impressed as always Nate!

Can`t understand how you manage to make such wellnuanced music out of such heavy brasstubes.

It is an great honour that you have premiered one of my works.

Complimenti!!

[JackMcKnight]

Very, very well done, my friend. Such a talent.

Kudos.

[Quadrupelfuge]

wow!

[xambiibambiix]

wat other instruments were included in this piece other than the trumpet?

[unit335]

Superb job, Nathaniel.

[Darb558]

Your tone is excellent.  You blend well with the orchestra and have mastered the art of the baroque era. Where did you learn to play so well?

[grizzlybear0]

This piece was written towards the end of the golden age of the trumpet.Since the end of the baroque era in music the trumpet has never evjoyed the status in did during the 2nd half of the 17th cent and the 1st half of the 18th cent

[DrKorn5]

I prefer the tone of the baroque trumpet to that of the modern trumpet well at least with baroque music it just doesnt sound right with a modern one.

[StuartHughes2990]

@DrKorn5 of course this would all depend highly on who's performing

[AdamHWarren]

@DrKorn5

From an amateur viewpoint, I think Maurice Andre's playing is reminiscent of clarino technique.

In the wind-playing connection, could I enlist people's help in sourcing a 17th-century English cornet tune I heard the Grenadier Guards band play years ago in St. James's Park? I've never heard it since, and I don't know whether it was originally scored for the shawm-family cornetto, or for a brass instrument similar to the modern brass-band cornet I heard it played on.

[antripod123]

@DrKorn5

agreed, it's cleaner...definitely,sharper in terms of delivery.

[stktrd]

Who are you? The world should be here enjoying your massive talent. A God-given gift!!

[okonh0wp]

don't you mean houston mayfield orchestra instead of choir?

[TexMark550i]

BRAVO NATE!!!! Ausgezeichnet!!!

[pcerasi]

Bravo for yet an excellent live video! Inspiring, musical, technically perfect, great sound, you name it!

Please keep'em coming!

Best Regards,

Pierre

[bhtroxel]

This was a fabulous performance!! It was great singing with your accompaniment! Brandi Troxel