Alison Balsom, Pinnock’s Players, Trevor Pinnock – Baroque Concertos (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:03:36 minutes | 2,37 GB | Genre: Classical
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“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: “The 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 register”.
Tracklist:
1-01. Alison Balsom – La stravaganza, Op. 4: Violin Concerto No. 6 in G Minor, RV 316a: I. Allegro (Transcr. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra by Simon Wright) (02:38)
1-02. Alison Balsom – La stravaganza, Op. 4: Violin Concerto No. 6 in G Minor, RV 316a: II. Largo (Transcr. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra by Simon Wright) (02:43)
1-03. Alison Balsom – La stravaganza, Op. 4: Violin Concerto No. 6 in G Minor, RV 316a: III. Allegro (Transcr. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra by Simon Wright) (04:04)
1-04. Alison Balsom – Oboe Concerto in D Minor, Op. 9 No. 2: I. Allegro e non presto (Transcr. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra by Simon Wright) (04:05)
1-05. Alison Balsom – Oboe Concerto in D Minor, Op. 9 No. 2: II. Adagio (Transcr. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra by Simon Wright) (05:10)
1-06. Alison Balsom – Oboe Concerto in D Minor, Op. 9 No. 2: III. Allegro (Transcr. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra by Simon Wright) (02:58)
1-07. Alison Balsom – L’estro armonico, Op. 3: Violin Concerto No. 9 in D Major, RV 230: I. Allegro (Transcr. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra by Simon Wright) (02:10)
1-08. Alison Balsom – L’estro armonico, Op. 3: Violin Concerto No. 9 in D Major, RV 230: II. Larghetto (Transcr. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra by Simon Wright) (03:21)
1-09. Alison Balsom – L’estro armonico, Op. 3: Violin Concerto No. 9 in D Major, RV 230: III. Allegro (Transcr. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra by Simon Wright) (02:07)
1-10. Alison Balsom – Oboe Concerto in D Minor, S. Z799: I. Andante (Transcr. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra by Simon Wright) (03:08)
1-11. Alison Balsom – Oboe Concerto in D Minor, S. Z799: II. Adagio (Transcr. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra by Simon Wright) (03:44)
1-12. Alison Balsom – Oboe Concerto in D Minor, S. Z799: III. Allegro (Transcr. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra by Simon Wright) (03:50)
1-13. Alison Balsom – Oboe Concerto in F Minor, TWV 51:f1: I. Allegro (Transcr. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra by Simon Wright) (03:21)
1-14. Alison Balsom – Oboe Concerto in F Minor, TWV 51:f1: II. Largo e piano (Transcr. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra by Simon Wright) (02:32)
1-15. Alison Balsom – Oboe Concerto in F Minor, TWV 51:f1: III. Vivace (Transcr. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra by Simon Wright) (02:02)
1-16. Alison Balsom – Concerto grosso in D Major, HWV 323: I. Overture. Larghetto (Transcr. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra by Simon Wright) (01:49)
1-17. Alison Balsom – Concerto grosso in D Major, HWV 323: II. Overture. Allegro (Transcr. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra by Simon Wright) (02:10)
1-18. Alison Balsom – Concerto grosso in D Major, HWV 323: III. Presto (Transcr. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra by Simon Wright) (03:31)
1-19. Alison Balsom – Concerto grosso in D Major, HWV 323: IV. Largo (Transcr. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra by Simon Wright) (02:18)
1-20. Alison Balsom – Concerto grosso in D Major, HWV 323: V. Allegro (Transcr. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra by Simon Wright) (02:28)
1-21. Alison Balsom – Concerto grosso in D Major, HWV 323: VI. Menuet. Un poco larghetto (Transcr. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra by Simon Wright) (03:17)
