Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto for two trumpets in C Major, Op 46, RV537

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741): Concerto for two trumpets in C Major, Op 46, RV537

0:11 1st Mov. - Allegro
2:57 2nd Mov. - Largo
3:41 3rd Mov. - Allegro

Immanuel Richter & Bryan Pachacama - Trumpets
Alex Alarcón - Piano

Live Recorded at Casa de la Música in Quito - Ecuador. June 2022.

Audiovisual production: FlaminVideo


This recording project arises within the framework of "Performance", a Masterclass organized by SISME (Sistema de Formación Musical de la Brass Band del Ecuador) and directed by the renowned Swiss trumpet player Prof. Immanuel Richter.

Vivaldi composed the Concerto for Two Trumpets in C major possibly in the 1720s in Venice. It is his only trumpet concerto; it is not known for whom he wrote it. It seems unlikely that he wrote it for the Ospedale della Pietà, because the ensemble there comprised voices, strings and keyboard. It was written for the natural trumpet of the time; as a valveless instrument this was limited to the notes of the natural harmonic series which means that its music tends to stay close to its home key.

A manuscript was found in the Renzo Giordano Collection at the National Library in Turin, which holds much of Vivaldi's personal collection. It was first published, edited by Gian Francesco Malipiero, by Casa Ricordi in 1950. Vivaldi also used the second movement for his Violin Concerto in C major, RV 110.


- Immanuel Richter (1974) received his education at the Zurich Conservatory with Claude Rippas, where he completed all diplomas (teaching, orchestral and concert diplomas) with distinction. As a solo trumpeter he worked in various orchestras (Zurich Opera Orchestra, St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana). For 3 years he was principal trumpet of the "orchestra dell teatro alla Scala" in Milan, in summer 2009 he changed as principal trumpet to the Symphony Orchestra Basel. Numerous performances as soloist and chamber musician. Principal trumpet in the Gstaad Festival Orchestra (Jaap van Zweden). Since 2008 he is lecturer for trumpet at the Lucerne University of Music.


- Bryan Pachacama (2003): he began his musical studies at the age of 5 at SISME (Sistema de Formación Musical de la Brass Band del Ecuador) under the tutelage of his father, Ecuadorian trumpeter Jorge Pachacama.

He has received lessons with renowned teachers from several countries, such as Uwe Köller (Germany), Matthias Höfs (Germany), Andi Carniello-Hedinger (Switzerland), Roland Fröscher (Switzerland), Raymond Mase (USA), Glen Makos (USA), Jesse Neuman (USA), Frits Damrow (Netherlands) and Huw Morgan (England), among others.

From a very young age he has had the opportunity to be part of several ensembles and has given dozens of concerts in numerous tours in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, the United States of America and the Argentine Republic.

He is currently studying his Bachelor in Trumpet with Professor Immanuel Richter at the Lucerne University of Music.


- Alex Alarcón (1979): Ecuadorian pianist. Promoter and disseminator of the piano works of Ecuadorian composers, which has resulted in the collaboration in research, books, articles, transcriptions, documentaries, as well as the contribution to the Ecuadorian and Latin American academic music with the recording of thematic discs.

D. in Research and Teaching, Master in Music Performance, Master in Didactics and Pedagogy of Music Teaching and Master in Pedagogy and Music Research. He studied at the Universidad Centro Panamericano de Estudios Superiores (Mexico), Universidad Internacional de Valencia (Spain), Tech Universidad Tecnológica (Mexico-Spain), Universidad de Cuenca (Ecuador), Universidad Técnica de Manabí (Ecuador), and Conservatorio Superior Nacional de Música de Quito (Ecuador).

He is currently professor of piano at the Faculty of Arts of the Universidad Central del Ecuador.