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Trumpeter Alison Balsom has a dozen recordings for the Warner Classics label under her belt. Brilliantly talented and charismatic, she could easily have continued releasing music along the lines that brought her success, and it is to her credit that she strikes out in new directions with Royal Fireworks, an album that followed a three-year pause in her recording career. There is a suite of pieces from Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351, but that's not the center of the program. Instead, Balsom, with help from conductor and arranger Simon Wright, brings together music that shows her trumpet in various situations. She has played a natural Baroque trumpet before, and she's clearly comfortable on the instrument, but she has never fully entered into a Baroque aesthetic as she does here. For one thing, she formed her own Balsom Ensemble, a collection of top historical-instrument performers. Better yet, the group seems to have fun together, along with producing precise intonation in the Italianate trumpet solo pieces by Telemann and Purcell, the brass ensemble work in the Handel and pieces from Bach's Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, and the Funeral Sentences for the Death of Queen Mary of Purcell, the latter included on a trumpet recital certainly for the first time here. The album is likely to appeal both to Balsom's usual fans and to Baroque historical-performance listeners.
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George Frideric Handel, Composer - Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Simon Wright, Conductor - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Simon Wright, Conductor - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Simon Wright, Conductor - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Simon Wright, Conductor - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Simon Wright, Conductor - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Simon Wright, Conductor - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Simon Wright, Conductor - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Henry Purcell, Composer - Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Henry Purcell, Composer - Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Henry Purcell, Composer - Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Simon Wright, Arranger - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company A Warner Classics release, ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited
Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company A Warner Classics release, ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited
Alison Balsom, MainArtist - Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company A Warner Classics release, ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited
Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company A Warner Classics release, ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Simon Wright, Arranger - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Simon Wright, Arranger - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Simon Wright, Arranger - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Simon Wright, Arranger - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Simon Wright, Arranger - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Simon Wright, Arranger - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Simon Wright, Arranger - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Henry Purcell, Composer - Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Henry Purcell, Composer - Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Henry Purcell, Composer - Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Henry Purcell, Composer - Alison Balsom, Trumpet, MainArtist - Balsom Ensemble, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Album review
Trumpeter Alison Balsom has a dozen recordings for the Warner Classics label under her belt. Brilliantly talented and charismatic, she could easily have continued releasing music along the lines that brought her success, and it is to her credit that she strikes out in new directions with Royal Fireworks, an album that followed a three-year pause in her recording career. There is a suite of pieces from Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351, but that's not the center of the program. Instead, Balsom, with help from conductor and arranger Simon Wright, brings together music that shows her trumpet in various situations. She has played a natural Baroque trumpet before, and she's clearly comfortable on the instrument, but she has never fully entered into a Baroque aesthetic as she does here. For one thing, she formed her own Balsom Ensemble, a collection of top historical-instrument performers. Better yet, the group seems to have fun together, along with producing precise intonation in the Italianate trumpet solo pieces by Telemann and Purcell, the brass ensemble work in the Handel and pieces from Bach's Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, and the Funeral Sentences for the Death of Queen Mary of Purcell, the latter included on a trumpet recital certainly for the first time here. The album is likely to appeal both to Balsom's usual fans and to Baroque historical-performance listeners.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 26 track(s)
- Total length: 00:56:51
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Alison Balsom
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Warner Classics
- Genre: Classical
© 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2019 Alison Balsom under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
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