Trumpet Concerto (1982)

The Richard Mills concerto is clearly another generation step onwards from the Lovelock. In the first movement Lovelock's old school Englishry is put to one side for rumbustious antics making playful use of twentieth century angularities. There is some dissonance but without losing complete touch with Waltonian sprees and splendours. Mills returns to a glowing romantic-nostalgic Moeran style in the Larghetto e cantabile. A wild and woolly finale recalls the example of Berners, Auric and Poulenc. The concerto ends in splendid triumph.