Page 3 - Alison Balsom Quiet City FULL BOOK

• Presto, 14 September, interview with Alison Balsom by Katherine Cooper, pegged to
Quiet City
• Gramophone, 15 September, interview with Alison Balsom by Martin Cullingford,
pegged to Quiet City
• Classic FM, 23 September, interview with Alison Balsom - ‘To diminish music in
education is a really big mistake’ – ahead of Moira Stuart Meets... Alison Balsom on
Classic FM, pegged to Quiet City (also in News Post Talk, 23 September)
• Hello! Magazine, 3 October, feature interview with Alison Balsom by Rosalind Powell,
pegged to Quiet City

Previews/News Stories
• BBC Music Magazine, June Issue, mention in the studio secrets segment
• Mondo Pop, 1 July, preview
• Gramophone, 7 July, pick for Alison Balsom playing Berstein’s Lonely Town as their
Video of the Day
• Gramophone, 8 August, preview for the September 2022 issue of Gramophone,
featuring Alison Balsom
• Classical Music Daily, 7 August, preview in their selection of August 2022 new
releases
• DZ Online, 29 August, German preview (also in , Abenblatt, 24 August, Antenne
Niederrhein, 24 August, KSTA, 29 August, NOZ, 29 August, Frankfurter Rundschau,
30 August & Volksstimme, 30 August)

Listings
• Musik Woche, 8 August, German listing in their selection of new releases from
August to September
• Presto Classical, 1 September, appeared at no. 1 in The Presto Chart for August 2022
• Gramophone, 2 September, appeared at No. 1 in the official specialist classical chart
top 20 (also in Classical FM (CA), 1 September)
• WFMT, 5 September, pick in ‘New Releases with Lisa Flynn’
• Classic FM, 7 September, mention in pick for Alison Balsom at no. 3 in their selection
of ‘The 30 greatest classical music artists performing today’
• Presto, 9 September, mention for Rhapsody in Blue in the new release round-up
• Sunday Times, 11 September, radio listing for Alison Balsom’s interview with Moira
Stuart on Classic FM
• Sunday Telegraph, 11 September, radio listing for Alison Balsom’s interview with
Moira Stuart on Classic FM in ‘Today’s radio choice’
• Mail on Sunday, 11 September, radio listing for Alison Balsom’s interview with Moira
Stuart on Classic FM in ‘Today’s radio choice’ (also in The Scottish Mail on Sunday, 11
September)
• Classic FM, 20 September, embedded tweet previewing Rhapsody in Blue and mention
for Alison Balsom’s interview with Moira Stuart in ‘this week’s radio highlights’
• Classical Music Magazine, Autumn Issue, mention in authored piece by Rebecca
Driver and Maddie Castell on the difficulty of securing press exposure and the
importance of PR

Broadcast
• Scala Radio, 11 March, interview with Alison Balsom by Mark Forrest in Classical
Music for Modern Life, pegged to the release of Quiet City