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Mozart Horn Concertos: Fragments and Good Intentions

PUBLISHED: September 21, 2009, Bruce Hembd
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[NOTE: This week's Random Monday feature will be postponed until next week.  In the meantime, please see my Recommended Readings page for current items in the world of classical music which of may be of interest.] Working on a Mozart horn concerto for the first time is practically a rite of passage. Mozart is a [...]

Mozart Rondo Smoothies

PUBLISHED: September 18, 2009, Bruce Hembd
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This post is a prologue to an upcoming series on the Mozart Horn Concertos, starting in earnest next Tuesday Monday. Topics will include: some simple basics, resources and tips, interpretive suggestions and a few ideas on cadenzas. The Horn concertos of W.A. Mozart are among some of the most treasured of the horn repertoire. We [...]

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Video: The Weber Concertino on Natural Horn

PUBLISHED: March 23, 2009, John Ericson

I had some very positive responses to the video posted a few days ago of Javier Bonet playing the last movement of the Mozart K. 407 Quintet on natural horn. He posted a group of videos, and the below is also great fun to see. The Concertino, Op. 45, by Weber is a challenging work [...]

Video: Mozart K. 407 on Natural Horn

PUBLISHED: March 20, 2009, John Ericson

Today I played a bit of natural horn for a change and also spotted this great video among a group of recently posted videos of performances by Javier Bonet. This clip is the last movement of the Mozart Quintet, K. 407 in a great performance on natural horn. I always marvel a bit watching a [...]

The Words to Mozart 4:3/Flanders and Swann

PUBLISHED: January 30, 2009, John Ericson

Working on the third movement of Mozart 4 with students I often bring up the topic of “the words” to the movement. Many musical works have words that are known among players, such as the opening of Ein Heldenleben “Strauss couldn’t write for the horn,” etc. The Mozart 4 words do help in getting you [...]

Want to Hear Some Mozart 3 Cadenzas?

PUBLISHED: January 28, 2009, John Ericson

I was recently sent a link to a Spanish horn website, www.soytrompista.com. My Spanish is minimal, but I was interested to check it out as it had some recordings on it. What I found was one section of the site is devoted to recordings of cadenzas. For example on this page there are there are [...]

News from 1988: The Concert Rondo now has Sixty More Measures

PUBLISHED: December 14, 2006, John Ericson

Several times recently I have noted that it is not widely enough known that the Concert Rondo of Mozart, K. 371, is actually sixty measures longer than the old standard editions of the work. The sixty “new” measures of music were discovered in 1988 on a page that had become separated from the rest of [...]

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