Baroque Concertos
Alison Balsom, Trevor Pinnock- ANTONIO VIVALDI - Concerto in G minor RV316a Op. 4 No 6, I. Allegro
- ANTONIO VIVALDI - Concerto in G minor RV316a Op. 4 No 6, II. Largo
- ANTONIO VIVALDI - Concerto in G minor RV316a Op. 4 No 6, III. Allegro
- TOMASO ALBINONI - Concerto D minor Op. 9 No 2, I. Allegro e non presto
- TOMASO ALBINONI - Concerto D minor Op. 9 No 2, II. Adagio
- TOMASO ALBINONI - Concerto D minor Op. 9 No 2, III. Allegro
- ANTONIO VIVALDI - Violin Concerto D major RV 230, I. Allegro
- ANTONIO VIVALDI - Violin Concerto D major RV 230, II. Larghetto
- ANTONIO VIVALDI - Violin Concerto D major RV 230, III. Allegro
- ALESSANDRO MARCELLO - Oboe Concerto in D minor, I. Andante
- ALESSANDRO MARCELLO - Oboe Concerto in D minor, II. Adagio
- ALESSANDRO MARCELLO - Oboe Concerto in D minor, III. Allegro
- GEORG PHILIPP TELEMAN, TWV 51:F1 in F minor, I. Allegro
- GEORG PHILIPP TELEMAN, TWV 51:F1 in F minor, II. Largo e piano
- GEORG PHILIPP TELEMAN, TWV 51:F1 in F minor, III. Vivace
- GEORGES FRIEDRICH HÄNDEL - Concerto Grosso D major HWV 323, I. Ouverture. Mouvement I. Larghetto
- GEORGES FRIEDRICH HÄNDEL - Concerto Grosso D major HWV 323, II. Overture. Movement Ib. Allegro
- GEORGES FRIEDRICH HÄNDEL - Concerto Grosso D major HWV 323, III. Presto
- GEORGES FRIEDRICH HÄNDEL - Concerto Grosso D major HWV 323, IV. Largo
- GEORGES FRIEDRICH HÄNDEL - Concerto Grosso D major HWV 323, V. Allegro
- GEORGES FRIEDRICH HÄNDEL - Concerto Grosso D major HWV 323, VI. Menuet. Un poco larghetto
Playing a brilliant modern trumpet, Alison Balsom engages in an adventurous and thrilling dialogue with an ensemble of period instruments as she performs six virtuoso concertos of the baroque era, originally composed for violin or oboe by Handel, Vivaldi, Telemann, Albinoni and Marcello. She collaborates with Director Trevor Pinnock – the musician who originally inspired her discovery of baroque music as a child – and a specially assembled instrumental group, Pinnock’s Players. Seeing this pioneering album as “a delicious colliding of the two worlds” – baroque and modern – Alison Balsom explores the possibilities of the piccolo trumpet while savouring the sonorities of period instruments and their “compelling authenticity and ability to reveal the composer's intentions”.