Trumpeter m: Tom Arthurs wrote the music for Postcards From Pushkin in 2009, according to his liner notes, “in a moment of particular calm and reflection” when he was a BBC New Generation Artist. Inspired by the works of the Russian poet and author Alexandr Pushkin (1799-1837), Arthurs and his musical collaborator, pianist Richard Fairhurst (of The Hungry Ants and Triptych), recorded the album later that year. Arthur’s warm, rich, flugelhorn sound and Fairhurst’s delicate, understated, piano combine to create music that is both restrained and affecting. It reflects the romance of Pushkin’s poems but also the underlying pathos and occasional darkness…

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Tom Arthurs and Richard Fairhurst: Postcards From Pushkin