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24 August 2022
Alison Balsom talks her new album
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Alison Balsom talks her new album 'Quiet City'
"I have this habit where I feel I have to prove to the world what the trumpet is
capable of... And I end up with a three-hour long list of music that I want to play in
every album."
British trumpeter Alison Balsom joins Russell Torrance to talk about what it was like
to record her new album Quiet City (out Friday 26th August).
The album is based around American repertoire, featuring music by Aaron Copland,
Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, Charles Ives, and Miles Davis (his arrangement
of Joaquín Rodrigo's famed Concierto de Aranjuez) — where she has swapped out
her normal C trumpet for something more "old and a bit smelly, with a bit of an air
leak" — her uncle Peter's personal instrument! Balsom said the usual C trumpet she
plays has too lyrical a sound for something by Miles Davis. Her uncle's trumpet
