Paul Dietrich's Elemental Quartet

Paul Dietrich's Elemental Quartet: A Small Patch of Earth

by Richard J Salvucci
February 25, 2025

Anyone who spends much time watching contemporary instrumentalists on the internet is bound to come away impressed. Modern players, it sometimes seems, can do just about anything. And that is particularly true of some instruments in the brass family, where the advances in technique and range over just a half-century are particularly impressive. There are many trumpet athletes, able to leap impossible intervals in a single bound and circular breathe their way smoothly through half a concerto and generally play ...