By around 1803 the Viennese court trumpeter Anton Weidinger had succeeded in interesting Johann Nepomuk Hummel in his "organized trumpet" and performed the resultant piece to great acclaim in the course of one of his concert tours, with the result that Hummel obliged with a second work. His Concerto a tromba principale received its first performance at the Esterhazy court on 1 January 1804. Weidinger himself is believed to have reworked the piece, at least in part, in order to adapt the writing to the instrument's technical capabilities.

Armando Ghitalla was the first to record this concerto. A student of Ghitalla, Merrill Debski, found a reference to the then totally unknown Hummel concerto by accident in the mid '50's while doing research. The student sent for a copy, planning to do the work on his graduate recital. He did not hear back from the library (the British Museum) in time to see or use it on his recital, and the episode was forgotten. The work, however, did finally show up, but well after the grad student had left. With the work in his hands, the rest is history, including the publishing of the piece by Robert King (Music for Brass No. 801, copyrighted in 1959), with Ghitalla's editing and extensive historical notes by Mary Rasmussen, Ghitalla's Town Hall Concert (in 1958), the recording of the work.

This first recording of the Hummel was done in December 1963 and  January 1964  with "Boston  Chamber Ensemble" and conductor Pierre Monteux. It was recorded in Kresge Auditorium in Cambridge, Massachusetts USA, near Boston. Ghitalla played it in the original key of E major, using a C trumpet.

It is on the Cambridge label, CRS1819. The LP also contains the Albrechtsberger, Concertino in Eb and the Molter, Concerto in D.

Today lots of players all around the world have recorded Hummel. Here is a list of some of those recordings: 

Artist	Orchestra / title	Record Label	Year
Agnas, Urban	Hummel: London Mozart Players Howard Shelley	Chandos #9925	2001
André, Maurice	Plays Hummel/L.Mozart.	MHS 515108	1965
André, Maurice	Classical Trumpet Concertos          Züricher Kammerorchester	EMI Classics CDC 754086 2	1974
André, Maurice	L'art de Maurice André	EMI Classics CMS 764100 2 (4CD)	1982
Antonsen,  Ole Edvard	English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate	EMI Classics (7 54897 2)	1993
Balsom, Alison	Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie	EMI CLASSICS	2008
Basch, Wolfgang		Koch Schwann 11003	1984
Berinbaum, Martin	English Chamber Orchestra	Vanguard C10098	1992
Bernard, Andre	English Chamber Orchestra George Malcolm	CBS (Uk) 76862	1992
Black, Bibi	Philharmonia Orchestra  Claudio Scimone	Angel/EMI CDC54620	1990
Brydenfelt, Michael	Odense Symphony Orchestra	CHANNEL CLASSICS  (11297)	??
Cassone, Gabriele (keyed trumpet)	Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro De Marchi	Amadeus (AM-148-2)	2003
Christensen, Ketil	Boemia Chamber Orchestra Conductor Hynec Farkac	Rondo 8337	1995
Dokshizer, Timofei	Moscow Chamber Orchestra	Melodiya/Quintessence  (PMC 7135)	1979
Eklund, Niklas	Swedish Chamber Orchestra/Roy Goodman	Naxos 8.554806	1999
Friedrich, Reinhold	Academy of St.-Martin-in-the-fields,  Neville Marriner	Capriccio (10598)	1992
Friedrich, Reinhold (keyed trumpet)	Wiener Akademie,  Martin Haselböck	Capriccio (10 598)	1995
Gansch, Hans	Trompetenkonzerte, Camerata Akademica Salzburg	Atemmusik Records	1994
Ghitalla, Armando	Boston Chamber Ensemble	Cambridge (CRS1819)	1963 1964
Güttler, Ludwig	New Bach Collegium Musicum, Leipzig	Pro Arte Sinfonia  (SDS-602)	1981
Hardenberger, Håkan	Academy of St.-Martin-in-the-fields,  Neville Marriner	PHILIPS (CD 420 203-2)	1986
Harjanne, Jouko	Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste	FINLANDIA  (CD 4509-96868-2)	1994
Head, Emerson	Music for Trumpet and Orchestra	Trumpeter Tr-1610-B	1980
Helseth, Tine Thing	Norwegian Chamber Orchestra	SIMAX PSC 1292	2007
Herseth, Adolph	Chicago Symphony Orchestra	Chicago Symph. Store	1983
Kejmar, Miroslav	Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra	Supraphon 10 4128-1	1987
Kejmar, Miroslav	Camerata Istropolitana	Naxos 8.550243(CD)	1989
Lang, William	Northern Sinfonia Orchestra Christopher Seaman	Unicorn
Marsalis, Wynton	National Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by: Raymond Leppard	CBS Masterwork	1990
Marsalis, Wynton	English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard	Sony Classics (60804)	1994
Mellaerts, Manu	Collegium Instrumentale Brugense	Aurophon Classics (CD)	1994
Murphy, Maurice	Consort of London Robert Haydon Clarke	Collins Classics Quest (CD)	1992
Nagel, Robert	3rd. Movement	Music Minus One 3818	??
Nakariakov, Sergei	Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne	Teldec  (94554)	1993, February
Reinhart, Carole Dawn	Classical Trumpet		1973
Romm, Ronald		Hal Leonard HL50488693	1989
Sandoval, Arturo	Classical Album London Symphony Orchestra	RCA 62661	1993 05.27-05.29 06.16
Schlueter, Charles	Trumpet Concerto Kyushu Symphony Orchestra	Kleos KL5122	2002, April
Schwarz, Gerard	New York Chamber Symphony Gerard Schwarz	Delos Records	1979
Schwarz, Gerard	New York Chamber Symphony	Delos 3001	1983
Smedvig, Rolf	Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Jahja Ling	Telarc CD-80232 (80341)	1989 July 3-4
Soustrot, Bernard	Concertos for Trumpet	Pierre Ver 788011	1987 Sept. 15-16
Steele Perkins, Crispian	(on keyed trumpet) The Kings Consort/ Robert King	Hyperion CDA67266	2001 18-21 January
Stevens, Thomas	Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra	London Records (CS 6967)	1974
Tarr, Edward	Trompetenkonzerte (Hummel, Hertel, L. Mozart) Consortium musicum /Lehan	Nonesuch H-71270	1965
Tarr, Edward	"Classical-Romantic Trumpet Concertos"	Christophorus 74557	1972
Thibaud, Pierre			1965
Touvron, Guy	Trumpet Playing Festival	Forlane 16569	??
Vosburgh, George	Seattle Symph. Orchestra, Gerard Schwartz	JVC Classics  (JVCCC-6509-2)	1997
Wallace, John	The Philharmonia Orchestra	Nimbus Records Limited (NIMBUS 2141)
Webb, Gordon	Sydney Symphony Orchestra Robert Pikler	RCA Red Seal (Australia), VRLI 0078	1984
Wilbraham, John	Academy of St.-Martin-in-the-fields	EMI Records/Seraphim  (69140)	1971
Quinque, Rolf	Eugen Duvier conductor	Vienna Masters Series (CD)	1990

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