Adolph Herseth, Trumpet: Hummel Concerto, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Live Radio Broadcast Dec. 1990 

Can’t say I adore the piece. But never in my life have I had the chance to hear trumpet playing this cultivated. Utterly, utterly brilliant, in every possible aspect. What a treasure the people of Chicago had in Bud for all those years!

I played this concert with Bud. At the last performance, the then new music Director, Daniel Barenboim was sitting in a box listening to the performance. At the following Tuesday’s rehearsal for a that next weeks program. Danny told the orchestra “I heard a miracle last night, Bud Herseth playing the Hummel concerto and he did a fantastic job” to which Bud replied, “Well, the Trumpet isn’t as EASY as the piano” (Barenboim’s instrument) naturally, that broke the orchestra up. lol

The best symphonic trumpeter to ever do it. I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Herseth in circa 1980. He was as kind as he was talented.

Greatest classical trumpeter of our time.

The best so far

So,Mr. Herseth was 69 years of age for this recording? So warm a sound from a legend. Thanks for this

Those articulations! Good lawd! That sound! 🎉

Oh gosh, I remember listening to this while lying on my bed in my college townhouse. 1983?

Complete command! Best live I've heard.

... virtuose Kraft, Eleganz und dennoch Sensibilität: Maestro Adolph Herseth, der unübertroffene Trompeter! Vgl. auch die Postings mit Bach und Telemann.

What a marvel! Outstanding performance, Herseth's phrasing, extension, technique, are simply great. Third movement a masterpiece. Thank you for posting!

Thanks so much for this!!! I had never heard Bud play this!!

Brilliant performance!

Bud's storytelling, tone of voice, accent, and inflection have a certain Studs Terkel flair.

Thanks for posting!

The date of this performance would have been in December. Eric Leinsdorf always gets conducted 3 to 4 weeks in December. Because I played all of them.

2:05

When was this broadcast?

Outstanding performance, offcourse !! But, Im sorry to say, nowadays there are children, also girls from 10 years old, most of them from Asia, that can play this piece also very well. Nobody can deny this.

I still remember seeing Mr. Daval..Charley's Daval ( ex boston sym. player) father...in the grocery store one day and he was a great trumpet player himself...he said all the trumpet players and students thought that Herseth was so great..but that he personally, though Ghitalla was the better player