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Apr 9, 2024 · Alison Balsom: ‘This is the most important piece written for the trumpet in 200 years’ From elephant blasts to spiritual jazz, Wynton Marsalis’s concerto is a history of the world in trumpet ...
Légende. Star trumpeter Alison Balsom adds her first recital with piano to her rich Warner Classics catalogue. Recorded live at St George’s, Bristol, she and Tom Poster, her long-standing recital partner, explore fascinating works from the 20th century, by composers such as Enescu, Hindemith, Martinů, Françaix, Bernstein and Peter Maxwell ...
Oct 7, 2010 · Trumpeter Alison Balsom sighs as she reels off the names – and in that sigh lies the reason why the trumpet is an unlikely Cinderella on the classical concert podium. "How amazing it would be to ...
Mar 11, 2022 · March 11, 2022. Quiet City, released worldwide on 26 August 2022, is a significant departure from Balsom’s previous recordings. The album takes its title from Copland’s haunting work Quiet City, one of Balsom’s favourite works for trumpet, and one she has waited for the right moment to record since she performed it and won the Brass Final ...
Mar 11, 2022 · Alison Balsom gives UK premiere of new Wynton Marsalis trumpet concerto. Four performances of the trumpet concerto with the LSO under Sir Antonio Pappano will begin with the UK première at the Barbican on April 11th. This will be followed by a performance in Bristol on 12th, and then in Germany - Cologne and Hamburg - later in April ...
Jan 8, 2012 · W hen the Scottish composer James MacMillan wrote Seraph for Alison Balsom, it was more than a compliment – it was a description.For Balsom, a trumpeter with a cascade of blond hair, looks and ...
