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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Mozart's four horn concertos are some of the most delightful among the vast collection of works for soloist and orchestra — but they aren't heard live very often. The Round Top Festival gave momentary ...

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 ...

Mozart: Horn Concertos 1 to 4, K.412, 417, 447 and 495; Horn Concerto No. 5 (fragment in E, K.494a); Rondo in E-flat, K.371. (Dale Clevenger, natural and valved horn; Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra; ...

The Elgin Symphony Orchestra continues its 76th season Classics Series with a program of elegance, joy, and lyrical beauty on Nov. 8-9. Led by ESO Music Director Chad Goodman, the concert features ...

This is partly because of the wealth of sumptuous orchestral writing which allows the horn to shine from the back of the orchestra at key moments without requiring it to carry the entire performance, ...