Alison Balsom: Sound the Trumpet
EMI Classics 40329-2
Purcell: King Arthur: Suite (14:11)
Alison Balsom, trumpet; English Concert / Trevor Pinnock
In the year of Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee, Alison Balsom celebrates the era of the Baroque trumpet in works by Handel and Purcell. Their anthems, odes, symphonies and operas have provided the music for numerous royal celebrations from their own day to the present.