Arthur Benjamin - Themes of Domenico Cimarosa, Oboe Concert in C minor - Alison Balsom 122t4w

Alison’s received many accolades: among them, Best Young Performer at the 2006 Classical BRITs, and the first British Female Artist of the Year at the 2009 ceremony. For this, her new disc, Alison heads to Italy and profiles the music of Vivaldi, Albinoni and Cimarosa, accompanied by the Scottish Ensemble. Reviews for the album are already hugely positive, with one Italian critic recently declaring Alison as playing “with sparkling ease and technical brilliance”. y6hp