Composer: Tomaso Albinoni, George Frideric Handel, Alessandro Marcello, Georg Philipp Telemann, Antonio Vivaldi
Performer: Alison Balsom
Orchestra: Pinnock’s Players
Conductor: Trevor Pinnock
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Warner
Catalogue: 2173227329
Release: 2024
Size: 2.36 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Vivaldi: La stravaganza, Op. 4
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Largo
03. III. Allegro
Albinoni: Concerto Op. 9 No. 2 for oboe & strings in D minor
04. I. Allegro e non presto
05. II. Adagio
06. III. Allegro
Vivaldi: L’estro armonico, Op. 3, RV 230
07. I. Allegro
08. II. Larghetto
09. III. Allegro
Marcello: Oboe Concerto in D Minor
10. I. Andante
11. II. Adagio
12. III. Allegro
Telemann: Oboe Concerto in F Minor, TWV 51
13. I. Allegro
14. II. Largo e piano
15. III. Vivace
Handel: Concerto grosso in D Major, HWV 323
16. I. Overture. Larghetto
17. II. Overture. Allegro
18. III. Presto
19. IV. Largo
20. V. Allegro
21. VI. Menuet. Un poco larghetto
“Having worked extensively with period instrument ensembles throughout my career, I was intrigued and fascinated about the possibility on this album of a delicious colliding of the two worlds.” – Alison Balsom
On this new recording Alison Balsom and her long term friend and conductor Trevor Pinnock bring alive works from Telemann, Handel, Vivaldi, Albinoni and Marcello.
A baroque album, confronting the period instruments of the Pinnock Players and Alison’s use of a modern instrument: a rotary valve piccolo trumpet.
Alison Balsom comments: “The piccolo trumpet is a modern invention – something that Bach and his contemporaries could not have known was to come – its power, its gleaming bright tone and its 20th century engineering technology. And this instrument is a world away from the subtle multifaceted sounds of the natural trumpet of the Baroque era. That said, the opportunity to perform much more chromatic and virtuosic music such as that originally written for solo violin or oboe, has seduced me and my trumpet colleagues since the days of the great Maurice André. He showed the world how intensely sweet the piccolo trumpet could be in its upper register”.