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recording of the week,
Alison Balsom's Quiet City
by David Smith
Alison Balsom is known for two things: an utterly unrivalled mastery of her own instrument,
and a career-spanning interest in performing music written for everyone else’s. Her previous
highly successful pilferings range from Vivaldi and Bach to Debussy, Satie and Messiaen; for
her latest album, Quiet City, she returns from the United States with a sack of equally
enjoyable musical loot, aided and abetted by Scott Stroman and the Britten Sinfonia.
