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Jun 12, 2024 · ALISON BALSOM and TREVOR PINNOCK interview 12 June 2024 For the virtuoso trumpeter Alison Balsom it was a dream to work with Trevor Pinnock on her new album, and the musical director agrees they are 'kindred spirits’.
Apr 15, 2024 · Alison Balsom Quiet City. Alison Balsom tpt / Britten Sinfonia / Scott Stroman 'To say that Balsom is in touch with the soul of her instrument would be to downplay her artistry...there are technical things she does here so effortlessly that we her listeners can just relax into the phrasemaking as if it’s something she’s made up on the spot.'
Mar 15, 2022 · ALISON BALSOM: Signs new five-album deal with Warner Classics. CELESTION: A short-lived advertising ...
Mar 15, 2022 · Paul McGowan: Larry Borden sent me a link to my old friend Peter Moncreif’s musings on CD quality and what affects it. Peter and I go way, way back to his early Berkley days and few writers I have met have Peter’s ability to really hear and identify causes of what is going on in […]
Oct 11, 2022 · Esa-Pekka Salonen: 10 tips to becoming a conductor – by Alison Feeney-Hart . Search Site. Search for:
Oct 11, 2022 · Kate Molleson writes: Wandelweiser music feels extra appealing at the moment. Maybe it’s because the grace and quiet, honest fragility is a tonic against shouty geopolitical absolutism. The US composer Michael Pisaro pinpoints his encounter with his Wandelweiser stylistic brethren in the early 1990s as the most decisive moment in his career: “This literally saved […]
Mar 1, 2021 · Among them: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss (who recorded TWO of his compositions on their 2010 Grammy® winning Album Of The Year, Raising Sand ), Bob Dylan, Fairport Convention, REM, Tom Petty, Yo La Tengo, the Flamin’ Groovies, Teenage Fanclub, and Wilco. CD packaged in deluxe Hardbound Eco-Book with deluxe 24-page full-color booklet.
Oct 12, 2022 · VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: 150th anniversary celebration of the man and his music
Feb 26, 2023 · Our good friend Tony Andrews, a dedicated music lover, a deeply knowledgeable but completely unpretentious authority on certain types of Jazz, both live and recorded and an all-round decent bloke wrote this. Tony, we all thank you for this. Being as I am a devotee of real music one issue seems to get to me […]
Oct 12, 2022 · Howard Popeck writes: On the face of it, subjective (ears, not machines) group testing of audio equipment, by which I mean ‘n’ items are compared to each other, are a great idea for the potential buyer. Through this lack of insight by the magazine reader and, unfortunately the failure of the magazines to recognize let […]
