Mozart Horn Concertos Have you heard the one about the cheesemonger and the horn player? Well, they’re actually the same person, and both he and Mozart were great friends; so much so that the Austrian ...

There has long been a benchmark disc of Mozart’s four horn concertos, recorded in 1953 by Dennis Brain with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Herbert von Karajan, and still available on EMI (659 3622).

One of the many cool things about the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Mozart Festival, which runs through Feb. 5, is the opportunity it offers orchestra members to shine in the solo spotlight. So often ...

SAN ANTONIO — An exploration of the origin of the French horn constituted much of the first concert of the San Antonio Symphony's third year of its baroque series at San Fernando Cathedral on Sunday ...

Brilliant uplifting performances of Mozart's four great concertos. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 18 November 2013. This latest album on the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment's own OAE RELEASED ...

Mozart and his friend Joseph Leutgeb spent a lot of time trying to one-up each other. And it's a good thing they did, because it caused Mozart to write some amazing music for horn. Sergei Nakariakov ...

He abandoned his French horn years ago, so why did the composer decide now was the time to dust the cobwebs off it? I grew up in a forest at the edge of England and Wales; a borderland in the shape of ...

Strauss Horn Concerto: It's not too much of a surprise that Richard Struass wrote some outstanding music for the French horn. He had a strong influence while he was growing up: his father Franz was ...

Technically faultless, with a gleaming, heroic tone, the Concertgebouw's principal horn player Jasper de Waal barely breaks a sweat in this decorous selection of aristocratic background music from the ...

(4) Concertos for Horn and Orchestra Alec Frank-Gemmill, Horn Swedish Chamber Orchestra Nicholas McGegan, Conductor Fragment for Horn and Orchestra (Concerto Movement Alec Frank-Gemmill, Horn Swedish ...

Whatever sparked Claudio Abbado's recent enthusiasm for baroque and classical repertoire that earlier in his career he rarely conducted and certainly didn't record, it continues to generate a ...

If you thought period performances were getting more conventional, think again. Pip Eastop plays Mozart’s four horn concertos on a modern copy of an 1830 natural horn with an astonishing variety of ...