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The Big Three Horn Concertos
One discussion horn teachers have over and over with students is that of trying to select works for recitals. Years ago in a lesson with Verne Reynolds he suggested that I perform one of what he called the “big three” concertos, and ultimately I studied two of them with him as a student at Eastman and the third as a DMA student at IU.
I was thinking about them again tonight as a student performed one of them on her recital and I realized that the other two are coming up later in the semester here at ASU.
So, what are these three big concertos? If you came to this from the Horn Matters website you have now clicked through to the message and I can get to them.
According to Reynolds the big three were the Gliere, Strauss 2, and the Gordon Jacob. Tonight it was Gordon Jacob, performed very nicely on a Senior recital. In a couple weeks we have Gliere on a MM recital and in a few more weeks Strauss 2 on a DMA recital.
All of these are certainly concertos that the advanced horn student should know. If any of these are unfamiliar to readers, a couple years ago now I put together with the studio a list of recordings, please check that for some suggested versions of each work.
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