Alison Balsom latest features

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Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Alison Balsom, Lang Lang, Nicola Benedetti, Isata Kanneh-Mason, Abel Selaocoe and Ludovico Einaudi

Lang Lang and Ludovico Einaudi among Best Classical Artist nominees at the Global Awards 2023

Global Awards

Alison Balsom is an award-winning trumpet soloist

‘To diminish music in education is a really big mistake’ – star trumpeter Alison Balsom

Alison Balsom reveals her Top 5 Trumpet Concertos of all time

Star trumpeter Alison Balsom reveals the top five trumpet concertos of all time

Classic FM Live with Viking at the Royal Albert Hall

Classic FM Live 2022 at the Royal Albert Hall: a royal celebration in pictures

Events

Classic FM Live with Viking at the Royal Albert Hall

Classic FM Live with Viking 2022: a celebration of music for royalty at the Royal Albert Hall

Events

Trumpeter Alison Balsom takes part in landmark Covid-19 study for musicians

Covid study with trumpeter Alison Balsom reveals brass-playing is safer than talking

Simon Rattle urges government to reduce 3-metre brass rule

Rattle urges government to ‘avoid superstition’ with orchestras, reduce 3-metre woodwind distancing

Simon Rattle

Leading musicians pen an open letter to Boris Johnson urging support for freelancers

Leading musicians pen open letter to Boris Johnson urging support for freelancers

Coronavirus

Alison Balsom introduces the natural trumpet

What is a baroque or ‘natural’ trumpet – and how do you play it?

Alison Balsom

‘Taking away music education is an incredibly dangerous thing’ says top trumpeter Alison Balsom

Best classical music

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The 15 most famous tunes in classical music

The 15 most famous tunes in classical music

Discover Music

Best symphonies: Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonin Dvorak and Florence Price

The 15 greatest symphonies of all time

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4 eras of classical music

The 4 eras of classical music: a quick guide

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A young Marin Alsop, Sir Simon Rattle, and Seiji Ozawa conduct their respective orchestras.

The 25 greatest conductors of all time

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Hildegard von Bingen, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Edward Elgar among the greatest composers in classical music history.

The 30 greatest classical music composers of all time

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Win tickets to see Ludovico Einaudi at the Royal Albert Hall with a Marriott hotel stay

Win tickets to see Ludovico Einaudi at the Royal Albert Hall with a hotel stay

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The Vienna Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Johann Strauss II’s ‘The Beautiful Blue Danube’ was broadcast into space, in partnership with the European Space Agency.

Strauss’ ‘Blue Danube’ waltz has been sent to space... and The Simpsons already predicted it
Physicists create ‘the world’s smallest violin’ using nanotechnology

Physicists create ‘the world’s smallest violin’ using nanotechnology

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11 of the best LGBTQ+ community classical music ensembles around the world

15 of the best LGBTQ+ classical music ensembles around the world

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Pope Levo XIV at the Vatican

Resurfaced footage shows Pope Leo singing ‘Feliz Navidad’ with church band in Peru

Videos

Girl revising and piano keys

10 pieces of classical music to help ease exam stress

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Scientific reconstruction reveals Beethoven’s ‘true’ face 200 years after his death

Scientific reconstruction reveals Beethoven’s ‘true’ face 200 years after his death

Beethoven

The Phoenician Scheme: Wes Anderson’s ingenious use of Stravinsky and other classical music

New Wes Anderson film ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ is scored with Stravinsky’s music

Hundreds of musicians protest Cardiff University’s proposed music school closure

Cardiff University scraps plans to axe music department

The Piano Boat comes to Britain's canals

Floating piano boat named ‘Rachmaninov’ to return to London’s canals