Dear Maestro @PerlmanOfficial,

At the beginning of my 3rd year at Manhattan School of Music in NYC, I was dealing with depression, but what started to snap me out of that was hearing your solo Bach recordings for the first time. It gave me something new & exciting to practice...

...on trumpet. Learning and practicing that repertoire has become a long term project of mine. But along the way, I found a lot of other violin repertoire to learn and practice (because baroque trumpets& #39; lack of keys/valves meant they didn& #39;t get to participate in all the...

...beautiful harmonic language of the time). If you have time to listen to this recording of Bach& #39;s Concerto for 2 violins (transcribed for 2 trumpets and brass ensemble), I would be truly honoured.

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