No Good Trumpet Trios (Part II)

I found a cool one from a freelance arranger who posted the whole thing on Youtube with the trio score.

Pie Jesu for three trumpets - Valter Valerio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn4yMC6zLgg

The video is for two trumpets and flugelhorn, but on Valter's blog he lists it for picc trumpet, trumpet, and flugel. I don't think it goes high enough to really necessitate a piccolo and it sounds like the recording (done by three Paolo Trettels) was performed on Bb trumpet on each part. The piece is decent, but falls prey to the common roles of first, second, and third trumpet which makes it cripplingly boring for #3 and very tiring for #1.

I'm thinking of ordering it, or transcribing it, then experimenting with moving some of the parts around so that each trumpet has an equal share of the load and a little more break time overall. I may also give his picc/trumpet/flugel arrangement a shot and see if that sounds cool or if the Piccolo just overbalances everything.