Fanfare Magazine’s March/April 2021 issue features an incredible review for Andrew Balio and Bruce Bengtson’s Soli Deo Gloria – Bach recording: “My praise here is unabashedly stratospheric: This is, hands down, the most magnificent, eloquent, communicative trumpet playing I have ever heard in my life, and I have a whole shelf full of trumpet CDs…
Barry Kilpatrick reviews Andrew Balio and Bruce Bengtson’s Soli Deo Gloria — Bach recording in the January/February 2021 issue of American Record Guide: “An all-arrangements collection that opens with organist Bruce Bengtson’s powerful setting of Gottfried Reiche’s ‘Abblasen’… This two-hour program offers numerous chorale settings, plus transcriptions of three flute and two violin sonatas. Trumpeter…
Gramophone Magazine reviews Andrew Balio and Bruce Bengtson’s Soli Dei Gloria — Bach recording in the November issue’s Sounds of America: “Balio’s long-lined handling of the chorales, the soaring ease and grace with which he reaches stratospheric heights and the expressive use he makes of his occasional trills create a sense of latent power behind…
Limelight Magazine gives four stars to Andrew Balio and Bruce Bengtson’s Soli Deo Gloria — Bach recording: “[it] immediately establishes the refulgent sound world of organ and trumpet that Balio and Bengtson explore through the transcriptions that make up the remainder of the double disc. Balio, with precise articulation and admirable control, proves adept at…
Available Today! Virtuoso trumpeter Andrew Balio’s superlative transcriptions of music by J.S. Bach delight the listener with both new and familiar sounds. Bach affirmed that “the aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.” At the end of his compositions he…
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