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  • do she play the moto perpetuo?

  • This is just amazing; fantastic expression, very beautiful and (guessing, since I'm a proud violinist and don't know much of the techniques of playing brass) very demanding technically, but this piece really loses something when not played on a violin, and not just the obvious left-out notes and effects. This is, I think, one of those pieces that shouldn't be transcribed.

  • заебися играет

  • Great ! Cuz Paganini is very hard to play !

  • bravísimo

  • thumb up if you listen to this more than once

  • Alison Balsom is a first class artist. The cameraman apparently not.

  • 3:03 and on... the height of proficiency and artistry. All trumpet players out there, get thee to a practice room!

  • astounding trumpet player - my only question is "Was this a live recording? or done in a studio?"

  • @nickjarvis30 I think we all know the answer to that one

  • Não há palavras para descrever tanta beleza, neste som!

    Parece um sonho!

    Airton de Oliveira!

    Campinas - SP - Br

  • BRAVO!!

  • Pourquoi n'ai-je pas eu le bonheur de vous écouter plus tôt ?

    Vous alliez musique, grâce et virtuosité !

    bravissimo et merci pour ce bonheur de vous entendre !

  • If you are a trumpet player you have to listen to this twice; the first time to be amazed by her flexibility and accuracy, and the second to really appreciate the expression and musicality.

  • @janquen twice?; try a hundred

  • its so smooth and flowing

    exept for the occasional breath, but at least she doesnt play a pussy bagpipe

  • Bravissima,sono rimasto senza parole.

  • does anyone know where i can download the sheet music for this??? for Bb trumpet??

  • @rshindy i saw it at a music shop today

  • Another hot blonde shows us how she does a great blow.

  • all time favourite song xD

  • I want to kiss her Nibblets.

  • Whenever I do not want to go to practice the trumpet so I listen to this video. She is my idol since my 14 years and always will be!

  • Oi kuinka kaunista.

  • trumpet in E????

  • @9182metalhead2 no, it's a trumpet in C

  • One word - AWESOME!

  • If you want this music for trumpet, go to trumpetmusic.dk. Its really hard.

  • Alison is a great Genius !!!

  • i can play the part at 2:33 :)

  • Thats female plays the trumpet better than many men surely!

  • gostei muito maravilhoso este som !!!

  • She makes it look so easy! Very taltented player indeed!

  • oh oh oh very nice

  • wonderful performance of a fiendishly difficult piece. Hogh notes a little strident, but she hits them dead center!!!!

  • Imagine her kiss... mmmmh!

  • Imagine her kiss... mmmmh!

  • if the camera would freaking stay still!!!!!!

  • Damn, the dexterity of her fingers and lips is just amazing to witness.

  • @ 2:30 I would've broken a blood vessel!

    The lung power on this woman is simply outstanding!

  • @dunmer2007 I personally think it's the lip work thats more impressive.

  • @subgerocallidus

    LOL, You would know, as I'm only a guitarist! (^_-)

    I must say that the trumpet is more powerful than guitar, as the latter needs external amplification in order to compete!

  • A great performance!!!

  • Uno de los sonidos de la trompeta que me gustan

  • beginning at 2:06 and at 3:05... attacking those high notes squarely, and in tune, is simply masterful. Tone and articulation is amazing. Fascinating. BRILLIANT.

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  • What a beautiful trumpet piece ... thank you for uploading these Alison Balsom classics.

  • now granted i dont know that many trumpet players, but of the ones i know, she is my favorite by far. not just best female. BEST

  • For all young trumpet players looking for a trumpet player to revere with an amazing tone, Alison Balsom is your best choice. She is definitely my model for tonality and musicality.

  • She's so incredible! My trumpet playing idol! I don't know how she can memorize such intense songs. I couldn't even play that much less memorize it. Definitely my favorite trumpet player!

  • Nice

  • wow.  she is incredible.

  • Classical musicians today have such a hard on for playing music of the past. In Mozart's day, they played....Mozart's music. In Beethoven's day, they played...Beethoven's music. In our day, we play....Mozart and Beethoven. Why are we so stuck in the past with music written then for musicians then? I agree that music of the past is a great learning tool, but also, I think it is terrible that is where main focus lies. It is played because of the social norm the musical community puts on it.

  • @MarksSax What you say isn't through-and-through correct: In Mozart's day they played all kind of music the purchasers liked, including much older music, for example. The same thing still happens now. Ask yourself: what is the most played song on youtube? I, like others, have lots of personal reasons for preferring classical music to other genres and this is why I prefer listening to and playing it(if I'm able to), and if one truly likes music, he/she do what he can to preserve it from oblivion!

  • Oh, absolutely. They played others music along with their own...at their own benefit concerts! But, much of it was from their contemporaries. They were not playing the masterworks of Palestrina and Josquin at concerts in the late 18th early 19th c. the same way as we are playing their masterworks today. I agree that important works need to be preserved, but I also think that new music needs to be better promoted and start to be receipted and better understood by listeners.

  • I do not disagree though. I believe Beethoven was huge at promoting the music of Bach who, for the most part, was widely unknown. But that sense of exoticism, where people started to become interested in music from a different time, didn't really start to apply until the late 19th, early 20th century.

  • First of all:

    "Don't be jealous that your instrument was popular 200 years ago and is no longer a factor in contemporary solo writing."

    My instrument still is popular and very much a factor in contemporary solo writing. Are you kidding me? I've played tons of contemporary solo and chamber music written for the violin and other combinations. The violinists who chose not to participate in contemporary music are really missing out.

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  • Secondly:

    Thirdly:

    "The only people who care that other instrumentalists are playing their music are the ones who realizes that their instrument's musical "heyday" lies in the past and can't accept it or are intimidated by it. ;)"

    So many things are inaccurate about this statement. I have many colleagues and friends who are wonderful musicians of many different instruments who find it offensive to cop out and play arrangements, especially for a recording.

    Most of my friends are trumpet players.

  • Furthermore most of the steady employment of musicians lies in the past. If you want to get technical. Solo, chamber, teaching, orchestral playing. It's how we use these mediums to open the ears and eyes of our audiences into a progressive art form. Again- we are steering away from the point-lame cop-out recordings.

  • MarksSax:

    I completely agree.

    Most string players, for example, are not open to new music and their teachers are not either. Therefore it leads to ignorance and a downfall in the effort to support our art form into a progressive art form. We need to support the music of our time because when all the elderly people die (who make up the majority of concerts) we are left with a society that lacks support.

  • I agree with the fact that compositions written for a particular instrument do not sound the same on any other. There was a reason why a composer wrote for that instrument ie: Paganini/Bach. Unfortunately, brass players for example use these wonderful compositions for study to improve technique and musicality. I don't particularly like listening to them on any other instrument but the intended one, but they are good studies for all just the same.

  • @Em2violins I disagree. I think this sounds amazing on Trumpet, and as a flautist, on the flute too. It's different, obviously, but still wonderful. Just as Chopin's Piano Scherzo's can be played by a group on violins, tis can be played on trumpet.

  • As far as doing it as a recording..I find that cheap, when there are so many other pieces actually written for that instrument that could show technique far better.

  • i play couple of caprice over my guitar. its hard . it took me years to get it right,. i guess different instrument has its strokes. and boy, violin is really master of all instruments.

  • I think that violin caprices on guitar are actually really beautiful. You have areas of difficulty that are similar to the violin. Octaves, finger dexterity, similar intonation issues.

    Every instrument has their own set of challenges. But, in this case- the challenges that performers are faced with by Paganini include challenges that differ than another instrument. This doesn't mean that the trumpet doesn't have challenges! But, playing ocatves, 10ths, spicatto, trilling.. totally different.

  • And- Bach is stolen quite a bit, actually.. this is true!

    Violas have no rep, so they steal the Bach cello suites, violin and flute share tons of repertoire. But, I have a hard time listening the saxophone play a violin sonata. Or, a trumpet playing music by a virtuoso violinist, Paganini. And- I'm sure EMI had more to do with it, than the actual performer, to be quite honest. Selling your career is often times more important than your musical integrity.

  • Don't be jealous that your instrument was popular 200 years ago and is no longer a factor in contemporary solo writing. Yes, saxophonists play Baroque, Classical and Romantic music which isn't theirs, but for the quality of the music, not the instrument for which it is written. The only people who care that other instrumentalists are playing their music are the ones who realizes that their instrument's musical "heyday" lies in the past and can't accept it or are intimidated by it. ;)

  • Oh give her a break. She's a mere trumpeter and therefore not blessed with the knowledge and skill required to even begin to appreciate any of what you speak. We must be tolerant of those less intelligent, even if they are rather annoying. After all, there genes aren't their fault...

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  • Paganini is rolling in his grave.. or rather playing the Hummel... 500 clicks faster to prove a point.

    This is almost as bad as hearing the Franck Violin Sonata on the saxophone.

  • Just because the music that was written for your instrument was/ is limited doesn't make it "okay" for you to do a hack job at arranging a well- constructed piece for the instrument it was intended for. The tempi was slashed in half--which is what makes it brilliant and difficult (Not to mention wrong notes! )Any advanced violinist could have played it at this speed. The caprice was written to highlight different bow techniques not to be slaughtered by the trumpet.

  • Yeah, right!... And what to say about a certain.. Bach I think is the name... Yes, that Bach that made silly arrangements for organ "just to change a little bit the timbre" of pieces originally written for the never boring wonderful strings ensamble: probably he's not rolling in his grave, that ignorant! ;-) Seriously, in the heart of music there is always "contamination"! For example great composers stole popular music and used in "inappropriate" contexts, with totally "wrong" instruments.....

  • I am more opposed to "wrong" notes than music arranged for "wrong" instruments. I don't understand why you are quoting words that never came out of my mouth.

    And you are correct, "contamination" exists in the heart of music. I am not completely opposed to instruments playing other arrangements of music. However, you have to admit that a string quartet playing music originally composed for brass instruments would sound silly. Just my opinion. If opinions weren't open for discussion,

  • we wouldn't have open forums, like youtube ;-)

  • Sorry, I understand the problematic you show and I respect your opinion (my wounded trumpeter's pride led me to exaggerate with irony, eh eh eh ;-) ) The quotes weren't your words: I improperly used them to give a sense of grotesque. The point is that,from my not-violinist perspective, the original meaning of this piece was to show the virtuosity of the player and rethinking it for trumpet could mean a brave, titanic try to push the limits of the instruments to the extreme.

  • When I hear this piece I'm just amazed and think like MisterQuizz, here, or pilottim12. I'm like a child in front of a candy store! It's incredibly hard for a trumpet to reproduce this kind of music and I respect the extreme skill of A.B., but skill isn't the real issue point: i love the sound of trumpet and understand that for other instrument's players (or just other people) this piece could be difficult to hear. But this arrangement can also be seen as a tribute. There's really Music here!

  • Perfect...

  • This is incredible! She's a true trumpet virtuoso!

  • I love her great performance, she plays it unbeliveable, it seems to bes so easy! :-)

    I wished I could play like her....

  • this is my p.e teachers daughter not joking

  • This sounds so much better on trumpet than it does on violin.

  • waooo mas lindoo .. saludos desde venezuela

  • Excelente, saludos, César...

  • Excelente video, saludos desde Venezuela, César...

  • is there any way to get that music...cause i cannot find this piece for trumpet anywhere

  • It's a transcription, originally for violin.

  • yea i know thats why i said i cant find this piece for "trumpet" anyways haha but if you knew where i could get her transciptions that would be awesome!

  • I do have the score in PDF format bt it written here, she play it on a C trumpet..

  • that would be great!!!!!

    can i get that from you?

  • Email address??

  • Is there the possibility to get the sheet of this wonderfull music from you, if possible write an pn, please :-)

  • i can give you the sheet's if you want? PM me anyone and i'll do my best. ;)

  • @danielwills93 Did you have the sheets for this.. I would be so nice if i could have a copy..

  • PM me your email adress and i'll send it to you asap. (Bb or C?)

  • esta muito linda a musica que vc esta tocando eu sou brasileiro gosto de tocar trompet ,,, mas ainda não toco este tamto que você ,,, mas fico muito feliz de você esta participando da minha rede olha os meus tambem e faz um comentario ,,,ok /

  • she´s gorgeous, the transcription of paganini's work to trumpet is amazing, she plays really really good, excellent sound, but the video makes my brain bleed

  • sumanezumiyasha u want to much xD

  • She looks like an angel sent by God to play the trumpet on a cloud... like a fairy!

  • @regalianpeaches I'd take her over the any of the Western gods any day!

  • I am amazed. Best female trumpeter by a long shot.

  • @imowlawns09 i wouldnt say she is better than Tine Thing Helseth

  • @catfrenz HELL YES SHE IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • This is absolutely amazing; her technique is simply impeccable. I wish I could play even a tenth as well as this.

  • You play very wonderfoul I love your voice. 10 stars

  • Mesmerizing and beautiful

  • where can i purchase this piece? If anyone knows

  • what did ya say alison? Timmy's stuck in the well? lol jk

  • Just amazing. I use the same pivot method concerning my embouchure as she does. But then again, Ruben Simeo uses the exact opposite method that has been utilized by "screech artists" for the upper range. I never could master that method for the upper register which Ruben utilizes unfortunately.

  • Maybe that's because everyone's physique is different? You should find the best method for yourself, en never think that what works for some people should work automatically for you..

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