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Reviewer: Barry
Kilpatrick Beautifully played and recorded accounts of great baroque music that includes trumpet. Ms Balsom and her colleagues play the baroque trumpet, a natural (no valves) instrument that has tone holes for improving out-of-tune harmonics. Its tone is gentler than the modern trumpet, so the pieces sound colorful but not trident. Ms Balsom, one of the best of today’s recording trumpet players, sounds very good in the solo concertos by Purcell and Telemann. Her tone is always golden, pure, and perfectly in tune, and she executes lip trills deftly. Her articulation is light, and she plays both warmly and incisively. She teams with four other trumpeters in Bach’s 'Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring’, and more spectacularly in suites from Handel’s Royal Fireworks Music and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. The program ends with Purcell’s remarkable Funeral Music for Queen Mary, with its grim approaching march, vocal quartet ('Thou knowest, o Lord, the secrets of our hearts’), enigmatic Canzona, and same somber march exiting. Ms Balsom found fine assisting musicians for her ensemble: eight strings, a theorbo (whose haunting sounds add mystery here and there), timpani, organ, and the excellent vocal quartet.
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