We recorded Mozart’s Missa in C major [K. 258] on Saturday 2nd October 2021 and recorded Mozart’s Regina coeli [K.276 (321b)] and Haydn’s Te Deum (für Fürst Nicolaus Esterházy) on Sunday 3rd October 2021. I played second trumpet in the recordings; I was covering for an ill colleague.

I had not visited Keble College before, and I enjoyed recording in this beautiful chapel. The weather had been fairly inclement, and rain could be heard in the resonance after some of the final chords had sounded. This did not detract from the excellent musicianship and was not audible on every take. It was great to play beautiful music and I was glad to be playing less complicated trumpet parts than I had been for the the highly ornate trumpet music I had been playing in Croatia and in London earlier in this sizeable consecutive run.