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Special offer. Royal Fireworks

Bach – Handel – Purcell – Telemann

Alison Balsom (trumpet)

Balsom Ensemble

Royal Fireworks

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The album’s real gold lies in its two D major solo trumpet works by Purcell and Telemann: the ravishingly soft and lyrical solemnity Balsom brings to the opening Adagio of Telemann’s first Trumpet...

Gramophone Magazine, January 2020

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Special offer. Royal Fireworks

Bach – Handel – Purcell – Telemann

Alison Balsom (trumpet)

Balsom Ensemble

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The album’s real gold lies in its two D major solo trumpet works by Purcell and Telemann: the ravishingly soft and lyrical solemnity Balsom brings to the opening Adagio of Telemann’s first Trumpet...

Gramophone Magazine, January 2020

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With an album of celebration – both joyful and solemn – trumpeter Alison Balsom again declares her love for the baroque era, which she calls “the golden age of the trumpet”. Joining Handel’s exuberant Music for the Royal Fireworks are works by two other German-born composers – JS Bach and Telemann – and by the London-born Henry Purcell. “These baroque composers knew the instrument they were writing for,” says Balsom. “There is such value in searching out the sound that they would have heard themselves, with the intention of authenticity. When it comes together it is utterly thrilling.”

Contents and tracklist

Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV351
Work length16:03
I. Overture (Adagio)
Track length2:13
II. Allegro - Lentement - Allegro
Track length5:14
III. Bourrée
Track length1:03
IV. La Paix (Largo alla siciliana)
Track length3:41
V. La Réjouissance
Track length1:27
VI. Minuet 1
Track length0:45
VII. Minuet 2
Track length1:40
Purcell: Sonata for Trumpet and Strings in D major, Z850
Work length5:33
I. Allegro
Track length1:16
II. Adagio
Track length1:52
III. Allegro
Track length2:25
Bach, J S: Jesu, bleibet meine Freude (from Cantata BWV147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben')
Work length3:02
Telemann: Trumpet Concerto, TWV 51:D7
Work length7:43
I. Adagio
Track length2:08
II. Allegro
Track length1:55
III. Grave
Track length1:57
IV. Allegro
Track length1:43
Excerpt,Bach, J S: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248
Work length17:30
Pt. 1: No. 1, Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage
Track length3:09
Pt. 1: No. 1, Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage
Track length1:21
Pt. 6: No. 1, Herr, wenn die stolzen Feinde schnauben
Track length4:40
Pt. 2: No. 1, Sinfonia in G Major, Pastorale Sinfonia
Track length2:08
Pt. 3: No. 1, Herrscher des Himmels
Track length1:47
Pt. 1: No. 5, Wie soll ich dich empfangen
Track length1:15
Pt. 6: No. 11, Nun seid ihr wohl gerochen
Track length3:10
Purcell: Funeral Sentences for the Death of Queen Mary, Z. 27
Work length7:00
I. March
Track length1:59
VI. "Thou Knowest Lord"
Track length1:58
III. Canzona
Track length1:50
VII. March
Track length1:13

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Awards and reviews

  • Opus Klassik Awards
    2020
    Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year  

January 2020

The album’s real gold lies in its two D major solo trumpet works by Purcell and Telemann: the ravishingly soft and lyrical solemnity Balsom brings to the opening Adagio of Telemann’s first Trumpet Concerto; the suppleness she brings to the Purcell Sonata’s outer movements and the luminous, clean-toned sobriety of its strings-only Adagio.
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