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Mozart: Horn Concertos

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Catalogue numberBIS-2635 SACD
Release date2024-11-08
Discs1
Orig. sample rate96000 Hz

After Alec Frank-Gemmill's critically acclaimed recordings of nineteenth-century works for horn and piano (BIS-2228), chamber music by Brahms (BIS-2478) and pre-Mozart horn concertos (BIS-2315), a version of Mozart's famous horn concertos from him has been eagerly awaited. As on his disc of concertante works, he is accompanied here by the Swedish Chamber Orchestra conducted by an expert in 18th-century style, Nicholas McGegan.

Mozart's relationship with the Viennese horn player Joseph Leutgeb was both a friendly and a musical one, and most of the works here were written especially for him. Spanning some ten years, from 1781 to the composer's death, the four standard concertos and other fragments follow Mozart's stylistic development, and are thus contemporary with the operatic trilogy with libretti by Da Ponte, the final symphonies and the last piano concertos. Elegant, refined and suave, the horn concertos take advantage of the unique colours of this instrument and do not shy away from the it's traditional associations with the postal service and hunting.

In addition to Mozart's four 'official' concertos, this recording also includes movements left in draft form, completed and restored by the composer and horn-player Stephen Roberts, giving us a further work here named 'Concerto No. 0'.

 
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  Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 1 in D Major 15:37
01 I. Allegro 04:47 $ 0.57 USD
02 II. Adagio 06:43 $ 0.81 USD
03 III. Rondo. Allegro 04:07 $ 0.49 USD
 
  Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat major 13:27
04 I. Allegro 06:22 $ 0.76 USD
05 II. Andante 03:14 $ 0.39 USD
06 III. Rondo 03:51 $ 0.46 USD
 
  Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 3 in E flat major 14:59
07 I. Allegro maestoso 07:13 $ 0.87 USD
08 II. Romance 03:55 $ 0.47 USD
09 III. Rondo 03:51 $ 0.46 USD
 
  Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat major 16:42
10 I. Allegro maestoso 08:20 $ 1.00 USD
11 II. Romance 04:20 $ 0.52 USD
12 III. Rondo 04:02 $ 0.48 USD
 
  Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 0 in E flat major 11:35
13 I. Allegro 05:05 $ 0.61 USD
14 II. Rondeau. Allegro 06:30 $ 0.78 USD
 
  Album total 72:20
ComposerMozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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