Simon Wright

Hoopla Doopla! is a live-action preschool drama full of physical comedy. Six colorful characters tumble, juggle, and summersault into and out of trouble.

On this new recording Alison Balsom and her long term friend and conductor Trevor Pinnock bring alive works from Telemann, Händel, Vivaldi, Albinoni and Marcello. A baroque album, confronting the period instruments of the Pinnock Players and Alison's use of a modern instrument: a rotary valve piccolo trumpet.