From elephant blasts to spiritual jazz, Wynton Marsalis’s concerto is a history of the world in trumpet form. As she prepares to give the UK premiere, Balsom describes the thrill of playing it When I ...

Soloist Alison Balsom delivered Marsalis’s playful new trumpet concerto with poise, expertise and wit – right down to the animal calls Rather like the American quilts whose fabric embeds a story, ...

Trumpets are for lovers. Or so it would seem from the packaging of Alison Balsom's intimately cozy accounts of four 18th century concertos with Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Dressed in a low ...

Alison Balsom is one of the best trumpet soloists of her generation, with a defiantly forward-looking musical philosophy. Alison practised on a trumpet belonging to her uncle, playing in both the ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- The Classical Brit Awards are to classical music in Great Britain what the Grammy Awards are to music here in America. Yet unlike the Grammys, where the winners of lower-profile ...

Why we care: You'd think classical composers would find inspiration in jazz trumpet, but apparently not, since the Hummel and Haydn trumpet concertos are still what you mostly hear at symphony ...

Trumpeter Alison Balsom joins early music specialists Trevor Pinnock and Pinnock’s Players in bright arrangements of Baroque concertos, in this week’s Feature Album on ABC Classic. The program ...

(12) Concerti grossi, '(L')estro armonico', Movements: No. 6 in A minor, RV356 Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Scottish Ensemble Alison Balsom, Trumpet Concerto for Oboe and Strings Alison Balsom, Trumpet ...

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