Alison Balsom performs at Shakespeare’s Globe

Alison Balsom performs at Shakespeare’s Globe press event for 2013 Theatre Season - ’Season of Plenty’. In an unprecedented musical and theatrical event, Alison Balsom, one of the world’s finest trumpeters, and award-winning writer Samuel Adamson explore the notion that the natural (valveless) trumpet was the supreme musical instrument of the Restoration. With music by Purcell and Handel, the text brings to the stage real and imagined characters including Mary II and Queen Anne as well as the trumpet