(3) Sonatas and 3 Partitas, Movements: Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004 Alison Balsom, Trumpet Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer King Arthur, Movements: Trumpet Tune Henry Purcell, Composer Alison ...

Collecting music written between the early 1970s and 2010, this NMC disc is an enthralling tribute to one of the greatest of contemporary composers. Oliver Knussen has never been prolific. And, in ...

Alison Balsom earned her current reputation as the world’s top classical trumpet player with half a dozen outstanding recordings and several years of celebrated performances with major orchestras ...

Planning a career in music, like planning to climb a mountain, is much easier said than done. Achieving success as a soloist is like achieving a successful ascent of Mount Everest. Many are called but ...

As the creative ferment of 21st-century performances of baroque music rises, the huge output of prolific composers like Handel, Vivaldi, and Purcell emerges as musical territory ripe for new ...

In the last 20 years the early music scene brought to attention a number of virtuosos who achieved the popularity once reserved for players specializing in 19th and early 20th Century repertory. One ...

THE typical image of the trumpet is brash, loud and decidedly male. Yet it is not only Alison Balsom’s gender that means she has a good a chance as anyone at countering these stereotypes with her ...

BOSTON — “There’s no reason in this day and age someone shouldn’t do something because of gender,” said English trumpeter Alison Balsom at a fancy restaurant on Copley Square the day before her debut ...