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Alison Balsom, Quiet City
by Pierre Jean Tribot
Aaron Copland (1900-1990): Quiet City; Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990): Lonely Town from On
the Town (arrangement by Alison Balsom); George Gershwin (1898-1936): Rhapsody in
Blue (arrangement by Simon Wright); Charles Ives (1874-1954): The Unanswered
Question; Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999): Concierto de Aranjuez , "Adagio" (Arrangement by Gil
Evans); Kurt Weill (1900-1950): My Ship (arrangement by Gill Evans). Alison Balsom, trumpet:
Nicholas Daniel, engalis horn; Tom Poster, piano; Britten Sinfonia, Scott Stroman. 2021. Booklet in
English, French and German. 54'09'. Warner Classics. 0190296229916
Trumpeter Alison Balsom signs her sixteenth album in her 20-year career, a recording that explores
the bridges between New World music with the Britten Sinfonia Orchestra. It is also in close
collaboration with this Cambridge phalanx in residence at the Barbican Center that this album project
