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Alison Balsom - Quiet City
Warner Classics 0190296229916
Release: 26 August 2022
Quiet City is a significant departure from Balsom's previous recordings, exploring American music of
the 20th century composed during the jazz era. The album takes its title from Copland's haunting
Quiet City, one of Balsom's favourite works for trumpet, and one she has waited to record since she
performed it and won the Brass Final of BBC Young Musician in 1998, her self-proclaimed turning
point that launched her solo career. The sound of the solo trumpet in classical and jazz music at this
time was contrasting in style, yet often evocative, plaintive and haunting, and thus iconic to the aural
landscape of America. Fascinated by the meeting point of these two styles at this time between both
composers and performers, Balsom looks to share her deep love for this particular character of the
instrument that defies genres.
