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Alison Balsom: Quiet City

At the centre of English trumpeter Alison Balsom's brand new album is Aaron
Copland's Quiet City. "The concept of this project began decades ago, when I
decided that Copland's Quiet City was a work that everyone needed to hear –
especially so as Copland reveals the scene so brilliantly via the solo trumpet and cor,"
Balsom says. "There is a true melancholy in this work that only a certain type of
trumpet playing can achieve, and across the collection on the album I've tried to
show that through the unique lens of the trumpet, the wonderful bridge and mutual
respect between the classical composers and arrangers, and the jazz greats can be
seen."