Internationally-acclaimed trumpeter Alison Balsom joins Frances Fyfield to study the manuscript of Johann Hummel's famous, and famously challenging, Trumpet Concerto. Show more Johann Hummel was a ...

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Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Dressed by Armani and dripping with diamonds, Alison Balsom sizzled with her trumpet across this year's Classic Brit Awards and on ...

Like Sarah Willis, Alison Balsom is another instrumentalist forging a highly successful career in a male-dominated field. Her EMI releases up to now have included arrangements and transcriptions; here ...

Taught by Mozart and Haydn, friend to Beethoven and Schubert, and frequent visitor to London, Hummel was not only a great pianist but wrote a demanding, madcap trumpet concerto, its nature sunny and ...

A small step in the evolution of the trumpet. “Ear Trumpet 1”. Photo by Eknath Gomphotherium, used with permission. We’re back with a new episode! Whooo! How did the trumpet morph from a simple horn ...