SKU: HL.48183396

UPC: 888680962418. 10.5x13.5x0.28 inches.

“In three books, Lucien Thévet (1914-2007), a virtuoso Horn player of his day, provides detailed and progressive studies and exercises for the Horn. The third volume of Complete Method of Horn is essential to all Horn players seeking to improve their technique on the instrument. Thévet's book focuses on elements including transposition, accidentals, adapting to a Horn with four valves, placing of sounds, scales and exercises for agility of the fingers,among other musical aspects. Moreover, Complete Method of Horn also contains plenty of studies. With notes in French, English, German and Spanish this Thévet book is versatile and crucial to the progress of any Horn player.”.

SKU: FG.55011-774-7

ISBN 9790550117747.

Tommi Hyytinen (DMus, Finnish horn player and pedagogue) writes about this collections:

I composed these 30 Etudes for Low Horn to be at the same time instructive and at the same time fun and interesting to play. The etudes consist similar technical challenges than a low horn player confronts in orchestra. The etudes also encompass many of the technical challenges that a horn player encounters in chamber music and in solo repertoire, especially since many of the touring soloists in the 18th and 19th centuries were Cor-Basse players. Some of these etudes are not the most serious in nature in the horn literature, but nevertheless they challenge and develop the playing technique in wide variety of ways. The ambitus of the etudes is very virtuosic, encompassing almost four octaves. Some of the etudes are more melodic and concentrate in lyrical phrasing, legato-playing, sound and intonation, others contain technically tricky passages, articulations and fingerings. Rhythmic accuracy and ‘finding the groove' is of utmost importance in all of the etudes. The etudes develop the sound and control of the low register of the horn and flexibility between the registers. These 30 Concert Etudes work as individual pieces or as a set of pieces. You can for example choose a set of etudes and perform them in a concert or matinée. I hope you have as much fun practising and playing these etudes as I had composing them..

SKU: FG.55011-426-5

ISBN 9790550114265.

Kai Nieminen's music has been described as often constructed according to a narrative logic, as fantasy journeys in imaginary or dream-like worlds. Most of his works have an extra-musical stimulus, alluded to in their titles. They are not, however, really programmatic music, being constructed according to their own musical laws. The titles do nevertheless reflect the original stimuls and provide something of a guideline to the listening experience. The initial inspiration may be in literature or art, or equally well in an urban streetscape or nature.
Arioso for solo horn is dedicated to the memory of Holger Fransman, the now-late grand old man of Finnish horn circles. The work can be performed also with four horns.

SKU: FG.55009-749-0

ISBN 979-0-55009-749-0.