Review: Excerpt Channel on YouTube
A picture is worth 1000 words – what about video?
The wonder that is YouTube never ceases to amaze me.
My favorite guilty pleasure is finding cute kitty videos on the laptop while my wife watches her home and gardening shows on HGTV.
ME:
Lookie lookie … a cat eating corn … on the cob! Kitty chops everywhere!!
WIFE:
(an annoyed look)
ME:
…oh …uhhh …sorry …
A few days ago I found a fantastic resource for students working on orchestral audition excerpts – the YouTube “Hornsolo” channel. It is an impressive collection of over 75 videos of the major horn excerpts.
This is quite an accomplishment and “Hornsolo” is to be commended for putting together and providing this great resource. Since these are only 1-2 minute excerpts, one would hope that under the rights of “fair use” this channel will remain online.
In the playlist sample above, it was pretty cool to see Stefan Dohr performing the Mahler 5th obbligato – in front of the orchestra standing in the soloist spot.
The Ravel Piano Concerto solo in one breath is also very impressive. Who is that horn player?
Other Horn-related YouTube Channels:
- hornchannel: including instructional videos from Ifor James
- Carloshorn1: soloist Aragon Ulises
- angelobonccorsco: a Milanese hornist
- dflatmajor: some Berlin Philharmonic Horns videos
- giohoffer: an amazing jazz artist
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