Order: Most recent to oldest
Britten Sinfonia/Southbank Sinfonia - Side-by-Side
St John’s Smith Square, Thursday 8th January 2024
Planet Hugill (Florence Anna Maunders) - “…the wonderfully flexible and powerful trumpet playing of Imogen Whitehead”
Britten Sinfonia - Handel’s Messiah (arranged by Mozart)
Barbican, Tuesday 12th December 2023
Seen and Heard International (Colin Clarke) - “The Trumpet Shall Sound’ is shared between trumpet and horn in Mozart’s take, yet was restored to trumpet – here, the excellent Imogen Whitehead.”
The Telegraph (Nicholas Kenyon) - “It was understandable to ignore Mozart’s enforced changes to “The trumpet shall sound”, especially as it enabled Imogen Whitehead to give a splendidly sonorous account of the trumpet solo.”
iNews (Jessica Duchen) - “In the orchestra, outstanding solos from trumpeter Imogen Whitehead and the leader Thomas Gould were the icing on the Christmas cake.”
BBC Radio 3 (Martin Handley) - “Principal Trumpet Imogen Whitehead, impeccable in ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’”
Barry Mills - Trumpet Concerto
Caledonia CD
Musical Opinion (Robert Matthew-Walker) - “The most substantial work here is the Trumpet Concerto of 2019, written for the fine soloist on this recording, Imogen Whitehead. It is in five movements, in the second of which the soloist swaps her trumpet for a flugelhorn, a most appealing slow movement I Love My Love. She is finely partnered by the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra.”
British Music Society (Alan Cooper) - “The Trumpet Concerto explores so many different sound possibilities of the instrument using different mutes. The second movement based on the Cornish folksong, I’ll Love My Love is particularly delightful, played so smoothly by Imogen Whitehead on flugelhorn.”
Britten Sinfonia - Handel’s Messiah
Barbican, Saturday 17th December 2021
Planet Hugill (Robert Hugill) - “focused power and strength in 'The trumpet shall sound' complemented by Imogen Whitehead's fine trumpet playing, a real duet.”
Seen and Heard International (Mark Berry) - “Newby’s moving representation of words and theology, allied to equally fine trumpet-playing (Imogen Whitehead) in ‘The trumpet shall sound’.”