Great introduction into the natural trumpet, by Allison. A wonderful player and such a personable individual! Now I know what the holes actually accomplish. And, I could listen to her speak all day long.
@@hank1519 Someone asked me at the time I saw her, “don’t you just want to take her home, with you?” Or something to that affect.... She was totally right, I was and still am totally smitten!😀
This is fascinating. I played trumpet in 5th grade and cornet in 6th grade (I was absolutely terrible) from which I have some recollection of how the instrument works. This shows that even if a child has no musical talent (me) or does not pursue music, music education can still help understanding.
“When I was a child I thought as child…” too many children and perhaps their parents expect perfection without years of instruction, they give up. and refuse to practice, practice, practice. If they have passion and want to, they will.
What a kick. Human tastes really change and the taste for volume has left great sounding instruments in our collective dust. The clavicrord (for instance) has a killer sound that isn't like anything we hearing now.
I always enjoyed Alison Balson´s masterful play of the trumpet. But now I fell in love. She is gorgeous in any way! Such a likable person! How passionate, full of knowledge and taking she explains makes me feel that anyone in her surroundings has to be the luckiest person in the world.
I played trumpet in school, from 4th grade through High School. I still have it, but have not played in decades. I was introduced to the French horn in HS, but never anything like those two horns! I do wish I had been given a chance to experience them back when I still played.
If you started all over, forgot what you think you know, and practice all day long for the next fifty years, nooooo! From pre-school til today, Ms Balsom is continually developing her technique, lungs, legs and stamina. She was most likely born with a tiny little trumpet in her sweet little hand! Her family are musicians. Why not search on line Amazon.eBay and Google for a reasonably priced horn assuming you are an adult. No one in the universe will ever sound like Alison, ok? Just be YOU, and practice! Of course it will sound like cats fighting in the attic at first, that’s perfectly natural. There’s so much to learn. Hope you don’t smoke, that shortens your breath and life.
Listening, looking and analyzing the recording sessions of this artist is just amazingly inspiring. I deeply respect the technical approach and emotions anchored in the work of Alison Balsom
Such a cool vid. The baroque trumpet was a complete discovery for me, after 50 years of listening to classical music. The reference to Maurice André is a nice homage to the French trumpetist. Thank you.
Wonderful. My father used to play trumpet. I play several musical instruments, but because of neighbours I did not dare to start playing my father's trumpet. Thanks to this video, I'll start practising and I'll play the trumpet ... 👍👍👍👍👍
That is intensely fascinating. I've offhandedly wondered about which instruments were correct for the pieces they're being used for. Not only that, I definitely prefer the feel and tone I just heard from that Baroque trumpet. So glad I wandered onto this.
What a joy to hear this! I majored on trumpet in school. Mostly baroque brass, some classical. Thank you so much for this video! I greatly enjoyed your comparisons! I played the Handel's Trumpet Will Sound on a D trumpet.
I love listening to classical pieces featuring the trumpet but until watching this I really didn't have much of a clue about how they worked. After watching it I am even more impressed how the range of notes are produced. Thank-you.
Your enthusiasm is very contagious and I have found myself delving in to Barogue music, which I hadn't appreciated in quite the same way before. Thank you Alison
I've played folk string instruments for over forty years; brass and woodwinds have seemed mysteries unasked. The lady musician has to have studied deeply for years and her discipline and joy come through wonderfully...
This is an incredible and informative video. I've always been impressed by classical trumpet players like Alison Balsom, Wynton Marsalis, and Maurice Andre, for the sheer technical skills needed to play classical trumpet really well, compared to, for example, marching band trumpet and jazz trumpet music. I've also suspected for a long time that playing the Baroque trumpet was very different and much more difficult, especially playing the trills with only the lips (actually the tongue), and this video confirmed everything that I had suspected. I was particularly fascinated by Balsom's close-up demonstration of a lip trill on the Baroque trumpet, which is fiendishly difficult for many trumpet players. Now if Balsom can learn to play all the notes on the Baroque trumpet without using the vent holes, I would be even more impressed, as I believe that was how the trumpet players really played back during the Baroque era. Handel, Bach, and other Baroque composers demanded the absolute perfection from their musicians,, so we know that there were trumpet virtuosos during the Baroque era that can work miracles with the natural trumpet that for most of today's trumpet players are possible only with the modern trumpet with help from the chromatic valves. On a different subject, I have to say that Balsom naturally looks very beautiful without any makeup.
Balsom absolutely can play all the notes on the Baroque trumpet without using the vent holes. It's just that doing so would make the music sound out of tune to our modern ears, which are only used to hearing music that uses equal temperament. The vent holes do not help her to reach any notes in the harmonic series; rather, they just modify the pitch of certain notes a bit in order to place them where modern ears would like them to be.
As a former trumpet player your artistry is greatly appreciated. Your love for the great instrument is contagious so many trumpet players are neurotic but your whole being is very healthy. I always loved Andre and Dokshitzer and as well find your beautiful playing captivating.
Great video I love your British accent and the passion you show for those instruments. I can imaging how that Baroque trumpet would sound in the Bach Brandenburg concert # 2
A really great video explaining early trumpet playing. I got to play in the World Trade Center lobby back in the 70s in the lobby on my trumpet Jazz band. Lots of other cool gigs too but this stands out.
Thank you a very informative video , I am learning the trumpet on my own and that cleared up some problems i was having understanding how the valves function.
My trumpet teacher in college had a natural trumpet hanging on his studio office wall...on a hook. He would pick it up on occasions and rip off a fanfare. Always fascinating. I did not fully understand the overtone series until I took a college class on the physics of sound. Combined with my trumpet teacher's demos and explanations made it all click. It is interesting to note that there are American drum and bugle corps with 80 + members that are using "just" tuning. The third of all chords not being slotted where we are used to hearing them in traditional tempered tonality. I am not so sure it is not a fad that will fade that is being used, in part, to make an 80 person hornline stand out amongst the other top 10 DCI corps in the world all with essentially the same level of insane precision.
Enjoyed your playing and video. The baroque trumpet reminds me of my 1920s vintage " peashooter" trumpet but not stretched as long and of course with valves to aid playability. Loved listening to you ! Thank you. Mike from Boston
As a piano tuner I have come to understand the harmonic series and how it works in brass instruments. As a Euphonium player it would have been most helpful to have this taught to me earlier in life. Thanks for trying to help others understand about it
Surprisingly enough, it isn't as difficult on a Baroque trumpet as it is on a valved instrument. I was shocked when I picked up a Baroque trumpet in D and played the opening of the L. Mozart Concerto in D, complete with the trill, with no real difficulty - something I was not in any way able to do on a valved instrument at that time. Accuracy in picking off notes in the upper register is another matter entirely.🥴
I play both the modern and Baroque flute. There is definitely a sense of accomplishment playing the Baroque flute which, like the natural trumpet, is much more difficult to play.
Wow. As a trumpet player I'm ashamed I didnt know this about the Boroque trumpet. And this explains a lot about the trumpet sound I cannot mimic when playing "The Prince of Denmark's March". That tone and trill sound just not able to be produced with the modern trumpet. 🤯
It is definitely brighter. If you've ever played a natural horn the same is true but the horn isn't as bright an instrument as the trumpet so it isn't as noticeable.
This tone can be achieved on the modern trumpet, it just takes a lot of practice. like, when you lips don't hurt after 30 minutes I'd say you're ready. (I'm not a pro. this is just experience talking)
The grace of the female human touch flows from this lady as wonderfully as her ability to play the trumpet. Her's seems more than a nice performance. Many can and do preform very well, but the graciousness and purity of character I feel coming through this person in this small demonstration is what makes our world worth living in. This keeps one young forever. Character itself is the most beautiful quality in any of the arts. Without it all the rest is but vainity!
I would like to see a a piece on the keyed trumpet that was featured by Haydn: the link between the natural and valve trumpet. (I am aware that it was more like a cornet than a trumpet, with its conical bore; but the Haydn concerto is generally listed as a 'trumpet' concerto).
I was wondering about trills on a trumpet with no valves and was glad to see you demonstrate it. Trill with the lips??? Wow, I never would have imagined that! (I've never played the trumpet.)
“There are a few higher ones than that, as well, but it’s early.”
felt this deep in my soul.
@Aldo Franco bruh what
@Felipe Steven BRUH WHAT
Nothing to it, huh? I adore Ms Balsom, she’s a global treasure.
The precision of that trill at 4:57 !
Omg
@@csgtywastaken ya wow
I rest my case.
Lookup her version of Eternal Source of Light Divine, simply sublime 😍
Now imagine it one trombone
Without the trigger
5:05 that trilling left me mouth open and I am a professional trombonist.
Thank you Maestra Balsom 🍀
“There are a few higher ones than that, as well, but it’s early.”
Lol...it’s early for me all day...that’s my excuse.
Lovely playing by a lovely lady!
Huge fan of Alison, I find her inspirational
Everyone else has expressed admiration so eloquently which just leaves me to say, thank you, Alison!
Alison, you are such inspiration for all women in Brazil. We love you! Thank you for everything you have done.
Great introduction into the natural trumpet, by Allison. A wonderful player and such a personable individual! Now I know what the holes actually accomplish. And, I could listen to her speak all day long.
Brilliant. Love the insight, intelligence and sensitivity she brings to the trumpet - along with a great deal of charm
She's both charming and brilliant! Quite a combination.
Indeed, Hank! She’s even more charming in person.
@@bluemanlou3082 Wow! Cheers!
@@hank1519 Someone asked me at the time I saw her, “don’t you just want to take her home, with you?” Or something to that affect.... She was totally right, I was and still am totally smitten!😀
@@bluemanlou3082 Very understandable!
@@bluemanlou3082 Being a fan of a great artist is such a pleasure.
This is fascinating. I played trumpet in 5th grade and cornet in 6th grade (I was absolutely terrible) from which I have some recollection of how the instrument works. This shows that even if a child has no musical talent (me) or does not pursue music, music education can still help understanding.
Absolutely!
“When I was a child I thought as child…” too many children and perhaps their parents expect perfection without years of instruction, they give up. and refuse to practice, practice, practice. If they have passion and want to, they will.
What a kick. Human tastes really change and the taste for volume has left great sounding instruments in our collective dust. The clavicrord (for instance) has a killer sound that isn't like anything we hearing now.
A gold mine for music lovers and also for everyone else :)
Love this sort of thing. A very beautiful and very talented lady perfectly demonstrates the baroque era trumpet. Thank you most Kindly.
I always enjoyed Alison Balson´s masterful play of the trumpet. But now I fell in love. She is gorgeous in any way! Such a likable person! How passionate, full of knowledge and taking she explains makes me feel that anyone in her surroundings has to be the luckiest person in the world.
I played trumpet in school, from 4th grade through High School. I still have it, but have not played in decades. I was introduced to the French horn in HS, but never anything like those two horns! I do wish I had been given a chance to experience them back when I still played.
If you started all over, forgot what you think you know, and practice all day long for the next fifty years, nooooo! From pre-school til today, Ms Balsom is continually developing her technique, lungs, legs and stamina. She was most likely born with a tiny little trumpet in her sweet little hand! Her family are musicians. Why not search on line Amazon.eBay and Google for a reasonably priced horn assuming you are an adult. No one in the universe will ever sound like Alison, ok? Just be YOU, and practice! Of course it will sound like cats fighting in the attic at first, that’s perfectly natural. There’s so much to learn. Hope you don’t smoke, that shortens your breath and life.
Thank you. This is a magical instrument which allows us to appreciate the baroque era so much more.
Listening, looking and analyzing the recording sessions of this artist is just amazingly inspiring. I deeply respect the technical approach and emotions anchored in the work of Alison Balsom
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Had these baroque composers heard that modern trumpet, it would have blown their minds. So much cleaner notes. Thank you for wonderful tutorial!
Such a cool vid. The baroque trumpet was a complete discovery for me, after 50 years of listening to classical music. The reference to Maurice André is a nice homage to the French trumpetist. Thank you.
The sound of that Baroquetrumpet, wonderful. Now I know more about trumpets also👍
Wonderful. My father used to play trumpet. I play several musical instruments, but because of neighbours I did not dare to start playing my father's trumpet.
Thanks to this video, I'll start practising and I'll play the trumpet ...
👍👍👍👍👍
That is intensely fascinating. I've offhandedly wondered about which instruments were correct for the pieces they're being used for. Not only that, I definitely prefer the feel and tone I just heard from that Baroque trumpet. So glad I wandered onto this.
My piccolo looks like a Cornish pasty. Absolutely hilarious. The way she just said it so casually. Legend.
Always a treat to hear a real expert at work.
What a joy to hear this! I majored on trumpet in school. Mostly baroque brass, some classical. Thank you so much for this video! I greatly enjoyed your comparisons! I played the Handel's Trumpet Will Sound on a D trumpet.
I must admit I got a thrill
When she played that lovely trill
I love listening to classical pieces featuring the trumpet but until watching this I really didn't have much of a clue about how they worked. After watching it I am even more impressed how the range of notes are produced. Thank-you.
itg was fun listening to her explain things that i have no idea of
Fascinating. Simply brilliant. Thank you.
When she played that lip trill...
Normal thing if you're trombonist though I have to admit it was really precised
@@apotezatorautentycznosci6760: Sure it is! Just natural to us, huh? No practice?
@@e.conboy4286 what do you mean?
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She is amazing! I’ve never heard her equal. Have you?
What a fantastic communicator, Alison....I learnt a lot
Your enthusiasm is very contagious and I have found myself delving in to Barogue music, which I hadn't appreciated in quite the same way before. Thank you Alison
It’s baroque
Intonation is great. Real pro. Awesome job.
I know nothing about trumpets and this is educational and very interesting. Thanks!
I've played folk string instruments for over forty years; brass and woodwinds have seemed mysteries unasked. The lady musician has to have studied deeply for years and her discipline and joy come through wonderfully...
You are correct. She’s incredible! Such lovely personality and charm.
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The trumpet shall sound and we shall be changed"
This is an incredible and informative video. I've always been impressed by classical trumpet players like Alison Balsom, Wynton Marsalis, and Maurice Andre, for the sheer technical skills needed to play classical trumpet really well, compared to, for example, marching band trumpet and jazz trumpet music. I've also suspected for a long time that playing the Baroque trumpet was very different and much more difficult, especially playing the trills with only the lips (actually the tongue), and this video confirmed everything that I had suspected. I was particularly fascinated by Balsom's close-up demonstration of a lip trill on the Baroque trumpet, which is fiendishly difficult for many trumpet players.
Now if Balsom can learn to play all the notes on the Baroque trumpet without using the vent holes, I would be even more impressed, as I believe that was how the trumpet players really played back during the Baroque era. Handel, Bach, and other Baroque composers demanded the absolute perfection from their musicians,, so we know that there were trumpet virtuosos during the Baroque era that can work miracles with the natural trumpet that for most of today's trumpet players are possible only with the modern trumpet with help from the chromatic valves. On a different subject, I have to say that Balsom naturally looks very beautiful without any makeup.
Balsom absolutely can play all the notes on the Baroque trumpet without using the vent holes. It's just that doing so would make the music sound out of tune to our modern ears, which are only used to hearing music that uses equal temperament. The vent holes do not help her to reach any notes in the harmonic series; rather, they just modify the pitch of certain notes a bit in order to place them where modern ears would like them to be.
What an INCREDIBLE instrument!!
Love your energy and enthusiasm. Thank you for sharing your passion.
Very nice presentation by a super talented trumpet soloist!
Thank you Alison! You are wonderful trompetist.
Risk = joy. Love that trumpet's sound (all of them, but especially the valveless one.)
Thank you for this, Alison. Always learning new stuff. What fun!!
Great stuff Alison, always love to hear you play, I love the baroque era of music.
I do too; but they probably never heard Bix or Louie and a few others!
I'm not musician enough to understand it all, but that was delightful. Thank you.
This was beautiful and very educational. I do enjoy listening to baroque music from time to time and yes, technology influences things.
I don't know how anyone could give this a thumbs down!!!
Just jealous trumpet players.
Mike Temple .
Never under-estimate the ignorance of some people. (:- )
Woodwinds. Violists.
TALIBAN, probably.
We can see that Alison Balsom is a treasure.
She does amazing trills😍😍😍
Fantastic video. Thank you, Alison.
As a former trumpet player your artistry is greatly appreciated. Your love for the great instrument is contagious so many trumpet players are neurotic but your whole being is very healthy. I always loved Andre and Dokshitzer and as well find your beautiful playing captivating.
Osiris: 'Welcome to the underworld.'
Tutankhamun
: *doot* *doot*
doot
Tutankhamun: Toot and come in
What a brilliant lady. One of my heroes.
Great video I love your British accent and the passion you show for those instruments. I can imaging how that Baroque trumpet would sound in the Bach Brandenburg concert # 2
Alison has a magical sound on the Baroque trumpet.
I love the blouse!
Brilliant, just brilliant! I'm a relative beginner, but she inspires me to push harder!
That's just amazing....
A really great video explaining early trumpet playing. I got to play in the World Trade Center lobby back in the 70s in the lobby on my trumpet Jazz band. Lots of other cool gigs too but this stands out.
Thank you a very informative video , I am learning the trumpet on my own and that cleared up some problems i was having understanding how the valves function.
after my first in concert experience of Bachs Weihnachtsoratorium with Baroque Trumpet (lautten compagney in Berlin) I never looked back...
My trumpet teacher in college had a natural trumpet hanging on his studio office wall...on a hook. He would pick it up on occasions and rip off a fanfare. Always fascinating. I did not fully understand the overtone series until I took a college class on the physics of sound. Combined with my trumpet teacher's demos and explanations made it all click.
It is interesting to note that there are American drum and bugle corps with 80 + members that are using "just" tuning. The third of all chords not being slotted where we are used to hearing them in traditional tempered tonality. I am not so sure it is not a fad that will fade that is being used, in part, to make an 80 person hornline stand out amongst the other top 10 DCI corps in the world all with essentially the same level of insane precision.
Practice, practice, practice!
Es maravillosa, me encantan sus conciertos
I am fascinated when I listen to her playing,and I'm also fascinated when l listen to her"talking"....
So incredibly interesting! Loved it!
A great trumpet player and history teacher, a talented all rounder🙂
Love me some Baroque.Immensely talented and not limited to one style of trumpet.
Enjoyed your playing and video. The baroque trumpet reminds me of my 1920s vintage " peashooter" trumpet but not stretched as long and of course with valves to aid playability. Loved listening to you ! Thank you. Mike from Boston
As a piano tuner I have come to understand the harmonic series and how it works in brass instruments. As a Euphonium player it would have been most helpful to have this taught to me earlier in life.
Thanks for trying to help others understand about it
Trills with no valves, wow. Great demonstration, thanks! 😊
Surprisingly enough, it isn't as difficult on a Baroque trumpet as it is on a valved instrument. I was shocked when I picked up a Baroque trumpet in D and played the opening of the L. Mozart Concerto in D, complete with the trill, with no real difficulty - something I was not in any way able to do on a valved instrument at that time.
Accuracy in picking off notes in the upper register is another matter entirely.🥴
@@THall-vi8cp Bet you were ‘shocked’ just picking up a Baroque trumpet in D and playing it with no difficulty’. We all can play that one, can’t we?
BRAVO ALISON !!!
I LIVE FOR THAT TRILL
She's a fantastic player of the trumpet.
Bravo pour l'extrait du concerto de Telemann vers la fin à la trompette naturelle, une vraie performance!
Muchas gracias Alison !!
Thank you for this video...a brilliant presentation...by the way: those impeccable trills at 4:54! :)
Thanks so much, I really enjoyed this. I am going to "discover" some more of your music....appreciate what you do and why you do it
Absolutely beautiful. Cheers!
It sounds as though she's saying, she has found joy in playing this instrument because it is moderately cantankerous.
I play both the modern and Baroque flute. There is definitely a sense of accomplishment playing the Baroque flute which, like the natural trumpet, is much more difficult to play.
Simply Brilliant......
Thank you Alison. Great video.
Wow. As a trumpet player I'm ashamed I didnt know this about the Boroque trumpet.
And this explains a lot about the trumpet sound I cannot mimic when playing "The Prince of Denmark's March". That tone and trill sound just not able to be produced with the modern trumpet. 🤯
Fascinating. Loved this.
Just me or does the Baroque trumpet have a richer tone than the modern trumpet? French Horn player here...
Maybe it's sounds more direct because it doesnt have all that curved tubing
It's a nice smooth tone. I used to play the b flat trumpet and they can get on the raspy side.
As a hornist, I thought the same.
It is definitely brighter. If you've ever played a natural horn the same is true but the horn isn't as bright an instrument as the trumpet so it isn't as noticeable.
This tone can be achieved on the modern trumpet, it just takes a lot of practice. like, when you lips don't hurt after 30 minutes I'd say you're ready. (I'm not a pro. this is just experience talking)
That Trill gave me a thrill
. . . On Blueberry Hill . . .
"they don't all look like this-my piccolo looks like a Cornish pastie" 😂😂😂😂
The grace of the female human touch flows from this lady as wonderfully as her ability to play the trumpet. Her's seems more than a nice performance. Many can and do preform very well, but the graciousness and purity of character I feel coming through this person in this small demonstration is what makes our world worth living in. This keeps one young forever. Character itself is the most beautiful quality in any of the arts. Without it all the rest is but vainity!
Gracias , muchas gracias , saludos maestra
🎷 maravilhoso
Parabéns - BRASIL
Stunning trills! Thanks! 😄
Lovely exposition . Thank you so much !
Bravo
Thanks Allison. I find that you’re quite amazing. Keep it up, dear.
I would like to see a a piece on the keyed trumpet that was featured by Haydn: the link between the natural and valve trumpet.
(I am aware that it was more like a cornet than a trumpet, with its conical bore; but the Haydn concerto is generally listed as a 'trumpet' concerto).
One of the best soloists in the world
I quite agree, and she is allso drop dead gorgeous!!
@@johnhills7257 Tell me, with a straight face, you only came for the music. Mom
So wonderful!!!!
I have great respect for trumpeters and horn players. So esoteric. And Miss Balsom proves that the old instrument designs are better.
I was wondering about trills on a trumpet with no valves and was glad to see you demonstrate it. Trill with the lips??? Wow, I never would have imagined that!
(I've never played the trumpet.)
As a hornist, ever since I was introduced to lip trills, I think they sound nice, but they're really hard to play correctly without daily practice.
As a trombone player, lip trills are very common. Unless you move the slide REALLY fast
@@testing582 Yup!
It is actually done with the tongue, not just the lips.
Say:
"Didil itil itil itil itil..itilitilitilitil..."
Happy birthday! And thanks for this video!