Soli Deo Gloria – named for the dedication “Glory to God Alone” which Johann Sebastian Bach wrote at the end of each of his compositions – brings together the Principal Trumpet of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Andrew Balio and the recently retired (after four decades) Director of Music at Luther Memorial Church in Madison, Wisconsin, Bruce Bengtson.

The album of Bach transcriptions for trumpet and organ pays tribute to the composer’s trumpet writing – such as in the Second Brandenburg Concerto – by bringing together other works that, in Balio’s words, “could be further illumined, renewed, or, may I say, glorified, by the trumpet.”

It opens with the only work written specifically for the trumpet, the Fanfare Albason attributed to trumpet virtuoso and friend of Johann Sebastian, Gottfried Reiche, which immediately establishes...