@reels.classics: 🎺🎶 Nini Rosso / Guglielmo Brezza — Il Silenzio (1965) Roger Diederen — trumpet solo | Johann Strauss Orchestra / André Rieu 🎻 • In 1880, Tchaikovsky was in Rome fleeing a marriage that nearly destroyed him. During the days he spent among barracks and squares, he heard the cavalry call that Italian soldiers played every night — and placed it in the opening of Capriccio Italien, Op. 45. Eighty-five years later, trumpeter Nini Rosso took the same call and went the opposite way: instead of placing it inside an orchestra, he stripped everything around it and left the trumpet alone. And in the middle of the score, he hid a passage almost no one knows — a voice whispering in Italian: "Good night, my love. I'll see you in my dreams. Good night to you who are far away." • Il Silenzio sold ten million copies. In 1965, it was number one in Italy, Germany, Austria and Switzerland — a trumpet solo competing with Beatlemania. The sound that barracks used to signal lights out became one of the best-selling instrumentals in history. In 2014, Clint Eastwood chose this melody to close American Sniper — played during the funeral procession of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. A 19th-century Italian military call accompanying a 21st-century American soldier to the very end. • In this recording, Roger Diederen plays from the balcony of the castle on Mainau Island, overlooking Lake Constance. He is separated from André Rieu's orchestra by twenty meters of height and complete darkness. The sound of the trumpet arrives before the image — the audience hears it before finding where it comes from. Roger has been the principal trumpeter of the Johann Strauss Orchestra since 1992, over thirty years playing alongside Rieu around the world. • 👉 Follow for the best of classical music, daily in your feed. • • • #trumpet #classicalmusic #trumpeter

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