Je découvre, grâce à vous, tardivement dans ma vie, cette merveilleuse artiste. Merci à vous de me donner ce grand bonheur de pouvoir l'apprécier. Jean-Loup
I don't believe that Bach wrote music that could not be played by the virtuosos of his era. His trumpet music was likely performed on the Baroque trumpet, and of course, that is why it lies so high up on the instrument's pitch range.
@@cletedavis5849 This is a violin concerto by Vivaldi that Bach copied as a student. And both of these artists are playing it with great virtuosity and musicianship.
I have been listening to this recital for several years. I throughly enjoy listening to Miss Balsom. I do think however, this is my favorite. The organ and the trumpet. Not a combination I normally think of. Thank you to both performers for this beautiful recital.
Words can not begin to express the sublimity of this music and its playing! It can only be expressed in the joyful emotions it evokes in its fortunate listeners!
toutes les interprétations d'Alison Balsom,je les adore,en particulier les concertos;et ici , avec l'orgue de David Goode j'ai la sensation d'être dans .....un autre monde!!!!!!
This would be impossible on a 'natural' trumpet with no valves - as in Bach's day. Must have composed with something else in mind... Whatever, I know Ms Balsom loves Bach and plays this beautifully.
I've read somewhere that the high notes were achieved using a mouthpiece designed especially for the job. Perhaps one of our brass experts can explain this. My understanding is that the music has its roots in Vivaldi - Bach was a fan. Perhaps someone with more knowledge might tell us. I suspect this may be a transcription but will happily defer to anyone with more knowledge. The piccolo trumpet in use these days is a very modern design. I've seen some variations on the design though.
Meri Michel, Alison est vraiment une étoile sublime, elle jpue avec une telle naturalité un instrument si difficile qu'on pourrait penser qu'il est simple.
It is indeed of Vivaldi concerto, number 9 from his famous collection, "L'Estro Harmonico" (op. 3). J.S. Bach transcribed this and a number of other Vivaldi concertos for keyboard. Bach's transcription for harpsichord (BWV 972) has been used here as the basis for this trumpet and organ version. Here's a link to Vivaldi's original:
Alison Balsom brings Bach to new highs himself probably didn't imagine. He must have joy tears in the eyes watching this right now... Tue 13 Nov 2012 10:10 GMT
Alison I was always watching his videos and listening, I remember once in the past of a person who woke up crying and was already composing music, and that person is our Noble Vincent Bach, nex
Wow, brilliant! Both thumbs up to Vivaldi, Bach, and the two performers, and thank you for sharing this beauty. Alison Balsom seems to be really enjoying herself, to be having a really great time, and how can you feel otherwise when you are playing such music like this and you are able to play like that? Just pay attention at the very beginning of the first movement, during the introduction by the organist, before she begins to play: you can see anticipation and delight on her face.
That is the absolute truth. Alison Balsom has made me love the music again, and it is as much from her enjoyment of the experience as it is mine. As far as I'm concerned, this may be my favorite classical performance of all time. Thanks so much to both of these wonderful performers.
That is the pure beauty and geniality! When hearing this, there is no hesitation about perfect God's creation ;-)... It begins by Bach's genial music, followed by makers of such wonderful-sounding trumpet and organ, and it ends in hands of real musicians -- they both are playing with unbelievable precision but also empathy for real Music. I cannot understand, how can Alison make on this instrument both such majestic and such smooth and sublime sound. And it is also interesting to see, how she feels and lives every part of her music.
bravo alison cette pièce je l'aientendue avec leleu le français et matthias hoofs je m'excuse de l'orthographe c'est un petit joyau ce morceau mais c'est du bach!
Es un placer escuchar a una hermosa mujer interpretar una hermosa melodia en un hermoso ambiente y hacernos ver la hermosura de la vida...aunque sea por la musica!
That's what I like to hear. BACH never was in Italy by himself but spiritually yes he was many times.J.S. BACH was not only German he was citizen of the world... more then of the universe. Shortly, the genius of geniuses. But the two interpreters David GOODE and Alison BALSOM are full of genius. Listen to his compositions played like this both masters is a consolation to have been coming on this vale of tears.
Bach - the king of composers. Alison has excellent phrasing and tonal quality. She obviously knows what she is doing and does it with great artistry. The organist also knows what he is doing. I am reminded, when watching performers, of something I read many years ago - commenting of JS Bach at the organ - the gist was - motionless - absolute minimum of movement. I watch so many performers who bend at the waist, back and forth, bow down, sway to and fro. I saw the same kind of excessive movements when living in Europe, from pianists especially. What has moving the body about have to performing on any instrument including voice? Elvis taught the world that the level of performance of music, in his case, well, let's not go down that street - has absolutely nothing to do with excellence of cavorting.His claim to fame was not excellence in musicianship but in grotesque body movements. He inspired the unoriginal copy cats to emulate his poor performance. I wonder if we would like to question the level of musicianship of the "popular" music performers. Singers that have no idea on how to sing high notes, no idea about phrasing, no idea on what the concentration in the mind should be for even a minimum of musicianship. Sometimes singers sound as if they were vomiting on the microphone. Of course the vendors of this corruption have a major motive - to get the money out of the pockets of young people into the vendor's pockets and have absolutely no concern about letting young people hear uplifting music. Apologies to the 2 performers doing a wonderful performance of Bach for this diatribe. you both lift up the listeners. Isn't that the purpose of all art???
Some performers move very little, others quite a lot. I would hate to think how it would effect many great musicians if you forced the one who move a lot to suddenly remain totally still while they play, or require the still and reserved ones (maybe Bach, for instance), to suddenly start expressing themselves more physically, instead of just through the music. Either case would, in my opinion, be a complete disaster. What I can tell you for sure is, that if you listen to a recording of any great musician that you have never seen, you won't have a clue as to whether they are moving or not. This leads me to believe that some people are more concerned with what they see than what they hear. If they are disturbed by what they see, maybe they should just listen; isn't that what music is really for and about anyway?
As some other people say in the comments, Bach's extraordinary genius is fore very little in this piece. Most of it come Vivaldi. Bach mainly made an harpsichord transcription of the violi concerto.
E divino. Angels are playing J.S.BACH. what a mastership...masters of Art more they are treasures. I will listen to that hundreds of time never getting enough. thank you very much for such an interpretation.
Cette façon de jouer...❤ vous êtes simplement géniale. Avez-vous connu Maurice André ? Il y a tant de similitudes dans les interprétations. Je vous adore.
Elle est trop modeste d'appeler cela du Bach. En fait c'est le No9 du recueil de 12 adorables concertos violon qui sous le nom "L'Estro Armonico" (L'Essence de l'Harmonie) a rendu Vivaldi célèbre dans toute l'Europe quelques années avant les Quatre Saisons. Bach en a fait (modestement et amicalement) juste une transcription pour clavier, qui a plus tard reçu un numéro, bwv972. Plus tard encore de bons ensembles de cuivres en ont fait des transcriptions pour cuivres, mais sans atteindre la qualité et la nouveauté d'Alison Balsom. Ici ce qui est joué est en fait une transcription par Alison Balsom (toutes ses performances classiques et baroques sont des arrangements par elle, toujours avec le même souci de respecter profondément l'original). Quand on l'écoute avec les partitions en mains on s'aperçoit vite que ce morceau n'est pas du Bach mais du Vivaldi Violon transcrit pour trompette (avec beaucoup de soin et de tact) par Alison Balsom. Le choix, approprié IMO, de la trompette piccolo, ajoute encore à cette réussite. Ainsi que l'organiste, qui en plus d'être excellent, s'entend parfaitement avec la trompettiste. Sat 23 Apr 2016 12:48 GMT
Recipe for heaven (1/2): In the 12 Ctos that made Vivaldi renowned (L'Estro Armonico), pick No9 (RV230). Improve it with Bach (BWV972). Simmer gently for 1-2 centuries so trumpets get valves, get a top arrangnt for trumpet (e.g. German Brass), further improve by a top trumpeter, Hardenberger. Now take a little gifted tomboy girl that plays trumpet at school and at 10, seeing Hardenberger in concert, wants no more become a cosmonaut but a trumpet soloist... Tue 13 Nov 2012 10:17 GMT
Un baume ... Merci Bach, merci Alison
Super balsom
What a nice performance! She is the best solo trumpet player in the world, Wonderful!
Die große Alison Balsom! Eine exzellente Virtuosin,die Weltbeste! Bravissimo!❤
Gyönyörű zene, gyönyörű előadás, és gyönyörű Alison .
Elle nous fait voyager dans tous les univers musicaux.....Merci Alison
I just love this combination of trumpet and organ..... There is no rivalry between the instruments only a duality of purpose
Thank you for posting this! I love Balsom so much! Can't make it without her. :)
😳
Они дают солировать один другому, не затмевают друг друга, а подчёркивают красоту каждого инструмента❤
David Goode is the best organist/teacher I’ve ever met !!
Yup - David! And yes, he's very "Goode".
After all the years have passed since I first saw this video I am still awestruck, and I hope it will be kept on YT forever and ever.
Труженица, умница, красавица, общественный деятель. Спасибо, леди!😊
Je découvre, grâce à vous, tardivement dans ma vie, cette merveilleuse artiste. Merci à vous de me donner ce grand bonheur de pouvoir l'apprécier.
Jean-Loup
what a performance, from both artists
pretty sure that is beyond what was technically possible during Bachs lifetime
I don't believe that Bach wrote music that could not be played by the virtuosos of his era. His trumpet music was likely performed on the Baroque trumpet, and of course, that is why it lies so high up on the instrument's pitch range.
@@cletedavis5849 This is a violin concerto by Vivaldi that Bach copied as a student. And both of these artists are playing it with great virtuosity and musicianship.
Bach actually had an excellent trumpet player at his hand. For him he wrote all the incredibly difficult trumpet parts like Brandenburg concerto.
I have been listening to this recital for several years. I throughly enjoy listening to Miss Balsom. I do think however, this is my favorite. The organ and the trumpet. Not a combination I normally think of. Thank you to both performers for this beautiful recital.
harmonies from heaven!
how does she do it so effortlessly and so PERFECTLY AMAGAD
Words can not begin to express the sublimity of this music and its playing! It can only be expressed in the joyful emotions it evokes in its fortunate listeners!
Her interpretation of this piece is unparralled.
Belle performance!!!! I could listen to this a milliooon times over...
je ne me lasse pas de l'écouter ! elle joue divinement bien .... merci Alison
clean, in tune, professional, as a trumpet player myself, I like it....
The Adagio is breath-taking - I mean both Bach and Alison
My cousin and I went and saw her live. AWESOME SHOW!!
Marvellous. Such commitment to Baroque music by both David Goode and Alison Balsom. Awesome
Brilliant playing by Alison, added to my playlist!
Alison, I am in amazement in how good your memory is on these pieces. Excellent work.
elle est sublime ,c'est vrai,j'ai les larmes .qui arrivent.merci Alison.
Beautiful playing of lovely music
Un connubio strumentale splendente, radioso, arioso. Magnifico!
Wonderful, simply wonderful!!!
Prachtig en inspirerend spel van Alison.Steeds weer genieten van haar muziek!!!
toutes les interprétations d'Alison Balsom,je les adore,en particulier les concertos;et ici , avec l'orgue de David Goode j'ai la sensation d'être dans .....un autre monde!!!!!!
Awesome performance!! And Bach always so great!! Perfect organ as well.
Wonderful piece! Thanks for sharing!
Dankeschön Alison Great
Alison Balsom creates the heaven on earth !
Wunderschön ist nicht genug gesagt......Mille mercis Michel Heroux
This would be impossible on a 'natural' trumpet with no valves - as in Bach's day. Must have composed with something else in mind... Whatever, I know Ms Balsom loves Bach and plays this beautifully.
Best trumpet inerpret
I've read somewhere that the high notes were achieved using a mouthpiece designed especially for the job. Perhaps one of our brass experts can explain this. My understanding is that the music has its roots in Vivaldi - Bach was a fan. Perhaps someone with more knowledge might tell us. I suspect this may be a transcription but will happily defer to anyone with more knowledge. The piccolo trumpet in use these days is a very modern design. I've seen some variations on the design though.
Tout simplement magnifique !
Meri Michel, Alison est vraiment une étoile sublime, elle jpue avec une telle naturalité un instrument si difficile qu'on pourrait penser qu'il est simple.
I have yet to see her play using any kind of musical score. Unbelievable and magnificent!
Outstanding, Alison is the best!! The organist was great also, which allows to absolutely shine! Wonderful!!
Una dea che suona meravigliosamente la tromba. Divina.
It is indeed of Vivaldi concerto, number 9 from his famous collection, "L'Estro Harmonico" (op. 3). J.S. Bach transcribed this and a number of other Vivaldi concertos for keyboard. Bach's transcription for harpsichord (BWV 972) has been used here as the basis for this trumpet and organ version. Here's a link to Vivaldi's original:
Thank you for this additional information.
Alison Balsom brings Bach to new highs himself probably didn't imagine. He must have joy tears in the eyes watching this right now...
Tue 13 Nov 2012 10:10 GMT
Alison
I was always watching his videos and listening, I remember once in the past of a person who woke up crying and was already composing music, and that person is our Noble Vincent Bach, nex
Wow, brilliant! Both thumbs up to Vivaldi, Bach, and the two performers, and thank you for sharing this beauty. Alison Balsom seems to be really enjoying herself, to be having a really great time, and how can you feel otherwise when you are playing such music like this and you are able to play like that? Just pay attention at the very beginning of the first movement, during the introduction by the organist, before she begins to play: you can see anticipation and delight on her face.
That is the absolute truth. Alison Balsom has made me love the music again, and it is as much from her enjoyment of the experience as it is mine. As far as I'm concerned, this may be my favorite classical performance of all time. Thanks so much to both of these wonderful performers.
That is the pure beauty and geniality! When hearing this, there is no hesitation about perfect God's creation ;-)... It begins by Bach's genial music, followed by makers of such wonderful-sounding trumpet and organ, and it ends in hands of real musicians -- they both are playing with unbelievable precision but also empathy for real Music. I cannot understand, how can Alison make on this instrument both such majestic and such smooth and sublime sound. And it is also interesting to see, how she feels and lives every part of her music.
Maravillosa Alisson.. ❤...
HERMOSA VERSION ALISON BALSOM UN AMOR ....
I like how she's really getting wrapped up in the miming.
Meaning?
what can i say - she is the best - simply beautiful
David Goode is amazing at the organ.
Thank you for naming the organist - the other musician in the room. The church has a name too - we'll get to it eventually.
bravo alison cette pièce je l'aientendue avec leleu le français et matthias hoofs je m'excuse de l'orthographe c'est un petit joyau ce morceau mais c'est du bach!
admirablemente genial, gracias por compartir este vídeo.
Es un placer escuchar a una hermosa mujer interpretar una hermosa melodia en un hermoso ambiente y hacernos ver la hermosura de la vida...aunque sea por la musica!
Immenso Johann Sebastian Bach 🌌🎼🎹🎻🎺❤💯 Goodbye from Lecce South Italy
Wonderful music, wonderful video. Thank you
That's what I like to hear. BACH never was in Italy by himself but spiritually yes he was many times.J.S. BACH was not only German he was citizen of the world... more then of the universe. Shortly, the genius of geniuses. But the two interpreters David GOODE and Alison BALSOM are full of genius. Listen to his compositions played like this both masters is a consolation to have been coming on this vale of tears.
Simplemente increíble, qué dominio de la trompeta...
Magnifique bravo
Fantastic! Magnificent!
Bach - the king of composers. Alison has excellent phrasing and tonal quality. She obviously knows what she is doing and does it with great artistry.
The organist also knows what he is doing. I am reminded, when watching performers, of something I read many years ago - commenting of JS Bach at the organ - the gist was - motionless - absolute minimum of movement.
I watch so many performers who bend at the waist, back and forth, bow down, sway to and fro. I saw the same kind of excessive movements when living in Europe, from pianists especially.
What has moving the body about have to performing on any instrument including voice?
Elvis taught the world that the level of performance of music, in his case, well, let's not go down that street - has absolutely nothing to do with excellence of cavorting.His claim to fame was not excellence in musicianship but in grotesque body movements. He inspired the unoriginal copy cats to emulate his poor performance.
I wonder if we would like to question the level of musicianship of the "popular" music performers. Singers that have no idea on how to sing high notes, no idea about phrasing, no idea on what the concentration in the mind should be for even a minimum of musicianship. Sometimes singers sound as if they were vomiting on the microphone.
Of course the vendors of this corruption have a major motive - to get the money out of the pockets of young people into the vendor's pockets and have absolutely no concern about letting young people hear uplifting music.
Apologies to the 2 performers doing a wonderful performance of Bach for this diatribe. you both lift up the listeners. Isn't that the purpose of all art???
petra gabetova
It helps keep time
Que pedant
Elvis Presley had perfect pitch and eidetic musical memory, he was perfectly capable of singing difficutl songs. I reccomend you read his biography
Some performers move very little, others quite a lot. I would hate to think how it would effect many great musicians if you forced the one who move a lot to suddenly remain totally still while they play, or require the still and reserved ones (maybe Bach, for instance), to suddenly start expressing themselves more physically, instead of just through the music. Either case would, in my opinion, be a complete disaster. What I can tell you for sure is, that if you listen to a recording of any great musician that you have never seen, you won't have a clue as to whether they are moving or not. This leads me to believe that some people are more concerned with what they see than what they hear. If they are disturbed by what they see, maybe they should just listen; isn't that what music is really for and about anyway?
Pra mim ela e a melhor do mundo
Sublime!!! tout simplement... Mille mercis.
This is really brilliant.
Great!!!
Thank you.
Luz
I quit playing trumpet at 18, but still love the sound of it.
Fantastico !!!
... Que l'on aimerait voir plus souvent en France !
Dank an Bach und die Solisten.
+Costa de Streeka Und auch ein wenig an Vivaldi.... :)
Super !!!
Straight in playlist !
Sublime, just sublime Bach, the master . . .
As some other people say in the comments, Bach's extraordinary genius is fore very little in this piece. Most of it come Vivaldi. Bach mainly made an harpsichord transcription of the violi concerto.
C'est très beau. Merci
En tant que trompettiste , je suis très épaté de votre virtuosité .C'est Magnifique ALISON .
questo è divino. the angels in heaven plays.
E divino. Angels are playing J.S.BACH. what a mastership...masters of Art more they are treasures. I will listen to that hundreds of time never getting enough. thank you very much for such an interpretation.
Entrambi eccelsi !!!! nell'esecuzione di Bach.
Cette façon de jouer...❤ vous êtes simplement géniale.
Avez-vous connu Maurice André ? Il y a tant de similitudes dans les interprétations.
Je vous adore.
Beautiful!
... ¡ esplendoroso ! ...
Bach und Alison einmalig !!!!
NON C'E' UN ABBINAMENTO PIU' ESALTANTE ,GIOIOSO E BRILLANTE DELLA TROMBA E L'ORGANO E SE POI ABBINIAMO LA BALSON E BACH E' IL MASSIMO
Esplêndido 👏👏👏
!! NO TENGO PALABRAS, SUBLIME.!!
Elle est trop modeste d'appeler cela du Bach.
En fait c'est le No9 du recueil de 12 adorables concertos violon qui sous le nom "L'Estro Armonico" (L'Essence de l'Harmonie) a rendu Vivaldi célèbre dans toute l'Europe quelques années avant les Quatre Saisons.
Bach en a fait (modestement et amicalement) juste une transcription pour clavier, qui a plus tard reçu un numéro, bwv972.
Plus tard encore de bons ensembles de cuivres en ont fait des transcriptions pour cuivres, mais sans atteindre la qualité et la nouveauté d'Alison Balsom.
Ici ce qui est joué est en fait une transcription par Alison Balsom (toutes ses performances classiques et baroques sont des arrangements par elle, toujours avec le même souci de respecter profondément l'original). Quand on l'écoute avec les partitions en mains on s'aperçoit vite que ce morceau n'est pas du Bach mais du Vivaldi Violon transcrit pour trompette (avec beaucoup de soin et de tact) par Alison Balsom.
Le choix, approprié IMO, de la trompette piccolo, ajoute encore à cette réussite. Ainsi que l'organiste, qui en plus d'être excellent, s'entend parfaitement avec la trompettiste.
Sat 23 Apr 2016 12:48 GMT
Excellent
Merlin1940 "
Muito boa e a melhor do mundo casa comigo tenho 26 cetementro de p
Straordinario.
Beautiful
nádherná hudba aj interpretácia.... :-) lovely music and interpretation... :-)
grandissima!! e bellissima!
Música divina!
Recipe for heaven (1/2):
In the 12 Ctos that made Vivaldi renowned (L'Estro Armonico), pick No9 (RV230). Improve it with Bach (BWV972). Simmer gently for 1-2 centuries so trumpets get valves, get a top arrangnt for trumpet (e.g. German Brass), further improve by a top trumpeter, Hardenberger.
Now take a little gifted tomboy girl that plays trumpet at school and at 10, seeing Hardenberger in concert, wants no more become a cosmonaut but a trumpet soloist...
Tue 13 Nov 2012 10:17 GMT
Thanks for the background. I love the “simmer gently for 1-2 centuries so trumpets get valves”. I love this so much.
sou fã dela demais
tres charmante!
Brillante trompettiste.
Magnífico!!!
Superbe!
Maravillosa!!
Sublime!
Musica leggera come la libellula che sfiora l'acqua in lacrime per la notte passata. Alison balsom riproduce quello che l'autore ha tradotto in note
Wonderful playing by both. Alison, be a pal & record the trumpet fanfare from Charpentiere's Te Deum please.