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 ...

(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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Barry Tuckwell was one of the world's greatest players of the French horn. He made the notoriously ...

Jonathan Freeman-Attwood compares recordings of Mozart’s Horn Concertos and makes a personal recommendation. Top recommendation: Mozart - Horn Concertos & Horn Quintet MOZART: Horn Concertos Nos. 1-4 ...

Rollicking - no word better describes Mozart's last concerto for horn. In the final movement we're seated on a horse bounding over hedges; we almost feel the animal leap and fly. Composer: Wolfgang ...

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 ...

The concertos for solo horn and orchestra by Mozart fall into this latter category, although not all are as familiar to audiences as (the wrongly numbered) No 4 (K495) of Flanders and Swann "An Ill ...

There are brilliant interpretations of “the Mozarts” on old and on modern horn. The recordings by Dennis Brain with Karajan and the Philharmonia remain, at least on the scene I grew up in, the ...

The music Mozart wrote for his horn-playing friend Joseph Leutgeb is still some of the finest music ever written for horn. We feature some of the highlights: the lyrical Horn Quintet, a reconstruction ...

(4) Concertos for Horn and Orchestra Claudio Abbado, Conductor Mozart Orchestra Alessio Allegrini, Horn Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Claudio Abbado, if not quite as uplifting as he was for the ...

The first recordings of Mozart's horn concertos using the kind of instrument the composer would have been familiar with appeared in the early 1970s. The inescapable contrast between the open and ...