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21 April 2022
Star trumpeter Alison Balsom reveals
the top five trumpet concertos of all
time
Alison Balsom reveals her Top 5 Trumpet Concertos of all time. Picture: Classic FM
By Maddy Shaw Roberts
The star English trumpeter reveals the five trumpet concertos she considers
to be the greatest of all time.
“I hesitate to say ‘greatest’ because it isn’t a sport! And it is also pretty
subjective,” Alison Balsom caveats at the beginning of the video, which was
filmed ahead of Classic FM Live in April 2022. At our biannual concert, Balsom
played Johann Nepomuk Hummel’s magnificent Trumpet Concerto – one of the
works she chooses below.
“But these are really important in many ways,” she adds.
