CLASSICAL

摘要

For her latest recording, Alison Balsom plays exclusively on the natural trumpet in a wide-ranging programme, from the rich splendour of the Royal Fireworks to the black sound of drums in Purcell's Funeral Music resonating in St Jude's, Hampstead - and then giving way to the one beautiful vocal track: 'Thou Knowest Lord'. (A vivid contrast with Purcell's cheery Sonata in D here.) It's all in demonstration-worthy sound, trumpets stage right and left in a new arrangement of the Handel. Director Simon Williams has re-orchestrated this and created a new setting of Bach's 'Jesu, Joy', where Balsom is like a vocalist. A Bach Christmas Oratorio Suite is also rescored by him. CB