Par BIGOT EUGENE. / Niveau : Elémentaire / classique / Date parution : 1938-05-01/ Répertoire / Cor et Piano

Mozart's Horn Concertos are host to some of his most celebrated and playful melodies and are presented here in an authoritative yet affordable edition. Edited by Barry Tuckwell the most prominent French Horn player of hisgeneration parts have been included here for both the French Horn and the Natural Horn with a Piano reduction providing a full performance accompaniment.Horn Concerto No.1 is available - catalogue number HL50485603 HornConcerto No.3 is available - catalogue number HL50485605. Horn Concerto No.4 is available - catalogue number HL50485606

As if looking back on his youth toward the end of his life Richard Strauss wrote a second concerto for horn and orchestra again in Eb major around sixty years after his first concerto for horn. This sublimely beautiful late work which gives no indication of the oppressive circumstances of Strauss? poor health and the Second World War was premiered in 1943 by Gottfried von Freiberg under the direction of Karl Böhm. It was not until after Strauss? death that the concerto appeared in print in London making a critical new edition on the basis of the autograph sources and performance material more than overdue. The editor Hans Pizka former principal horn of the BavarianState Opera in Munich learned first-hand about the performance tradition and genesis of the concerto as a pupil of Gottfried von Freiberg. For use in lessons and for performances the especially playable piano reduction by Johannes Umbreit is a great help. As if looking back on his youth toward the end of his life Richard Strauss wrote a second concerto for horn and orchestra again in Eb major around sixty years after his first concerto for horn. This sublimely beautiful late work which gives no indication of the oppressive circumstances of Strauss? poor health and the Second World War was premiered in 1943 by Gottfried von Freiberg under the direction of Karl Böhm. It was not until after Strauss? death that the concerto appeared in print in London making a critical new edition on the basis of the autograph sources and performance material more than overdue. The editor Hans Pizka former principal horn of the BavarianState Opera in Munich learned first-hand about the performance tradition and genesis of the concerto as a pupil of Gottfried von Freiberg. For use in lessons and for performances the especially playable piano reduction by Johannes Umbreit is a great help.

for Pianoforte and Horn or Violoncello-Beethoven wrote his Horn Sonata op. 17 for Johann Wenzel one of the most famous horn players of his day. According to an anecdote from Beethoven's pupil Ferdinand Ries he only completed it on the day before the première. Nevertheless the piece was a rousing success.As the horn part demands a masterly technique the publisher of the first print Tranquillo Mollo et Comp. issued the piece in 1801 with an alternative part for violoncello. Since the autograph score has not survived Jonathan Del Mar has based his scholarly-critical edition mainly on this first print.Misha Donat provides an informative Foreword on the work’s history and genesis (Eng/Ger) and theedition is rounded off by a Critical Commentary (Eng) with a complete description of the sources as well as a page in facsimile.