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20 March 2022

Alison Balsom’s new album, Quiet City, is a direct response to a society in flux. “I don’t

think it would have been the same album two years ago,” the trumpeter tells me. “It would have

been more virtuosic and less personal. The isolation, the confusion and the disquiet in the music
resonated.”