Fam'd Italian Masters - Musik für 2 Trompeten, Streicher, Bc auf CD

Startrompeterin

Lange hatte es keinen Startrompeter in der Klassik gegeben, jetzt haben wir mit Alison Balsom sogar eine Startrompeterin! Eine ihrer ersten Aufnahmen erschien 2003 bei Hyperion. Zusammen mit dem renommierten Barocktrompeter Crispian Steele-Perkins stellt sie hier virtuose Trompetenmusik italienischer Barockmeister vor. Neben bekannten Namen wie Vivaldi und Torelli, gibt es auch reizvolle Raritäten unter anderem von Melani und Cazzati zu entdecken.

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This disc combines the talents of internationally-renowned Crispian Steele-Perkins, and Alison Balsom, a recent graduate currently taking the musical world by storm. Both are in radiant form in a collection of works from that era of Italian baroque music celebrated and loved for its vibrancy and spirit.

The lesser-known composers presented here (Melani, Cazzati, Jacchini, Lazzari, Grossi etc) sit happily beside the ›greats‹ of the era (Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Torelli). Before mid-seventeenth century the trumpet was essentially a ceremonial instrument until German composers such as Praetorius and Schütz began to incorporate it into concert works. This idea was soon adopted elsewhere, and Italian sonatas and concertos form much of the baroque repertoire for trumpet.

The accomplished Parley of Instruments play ›one to a part‹, reflecting the combination of forces most likely to have been used at the time these works were first performed.

Rezensionen

»Fascinating … Crispian Steele-Perkins and Alison Balsom play with an assured virtuosity« (Daily Telegraph)

»beautifully lyrical trumpet-playing« (BBC Music Magazine)

»Steele-Perkins and Balsom play throughout this recording as robustly and as sensitively as one could wish … Buy this disc« (Early Music News)

»exemplary performances … The disc as a whole is not only extremely enjoyable in its own right, but is of value for illuminating a major development in the history of instrumental music« (Goldberg)