Alison Balsom - Caprice - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Alison Balsom - Trumpet Concertos [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/14/2008

Having worked extensively with period instrument ensembles throughout my career, I was intrigued and fascinated about the possibility on this album of a delicious colliding of the two worlds. Alison Balsom. On this new recording Alison Balsom and her long term friend and conductor Trevor Pinnock bring alive works from Telemann, Händel, Vivaldi, Albinoni and Marcello. A baroque album, confronting the period instruments of the Pinnock Players and Alison's use of a modern instrument a rotary valve piccolo trumpet. Alison comments InchThe piccolo trumpet is a modern invention - something that Bach and his contemporaries could not have known was to come - it's power, it's gleaming bright tone and it's 20th century engineering technology. And this instrument is a world away from the subtle multifaceted sounds of the natural trumpet of the Baroque era. That said, the opportunity to perform much more chromatic and virtuosic music such as that originally written for solo violin or oboe, has seduced me and my trumpet colleagues since the days of the great Maurice André. He showed the world how intensely sweet the piccolo trumpet could be in it's upper registerInch.

2010 debut solo album from British Soul singer Roxanne Tataei AKA Rox. The album was partially recorded in New Jersey with Commissioner Gordon (of Lauryn Hill fame) but mainly in London with Jay-Z and Lupe Fiasco producer Al Shux. After forming her first band in 2007, Rox attracted interest from a variety of labels, before signing with Rough Trade in November 2008. Since then, Rox has appeared on tours with the likes of Mark Ronson and Daniel Merriweather as well as television shows such as Later.. with Jools Holland. 12 tracks.