The cover for this BIS release (the title comes from Berlioz, who is not represented) may lead you to expect an ordinary recital of music for horn and piano. It's actually something more rewarding and more ambitious: a historical-performance release covering the history of its two instruments over the course of the 19th century. Each horn-piano pair is shown in photographs, with explanations in the booklet as to what the players were after. And the results are often revelatory. In the first half of the program, hornist Alec ...
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The cover for this BIS release (the title comes from Berlioz, who is not represented) may lead you to expect an ordinary recital of music for horn and piano. It's actually something more rewarding and more ambitious: a historical-performance release covering the history of its two instruments over the course of the 19th century. Each horn-piano pair is shown in photographs, with explanations in the booklet as to what the players were after. And the results are often revelatory. In the first half of the program, hornist Alec Frank-Gemmill uses a variety of natural horns. Beethoven's Horn Sonata in F major, Op. 17, is not played terribly often, but here, with a Viennese-style piano and a horn from the sonata's year of 1800, it takes on a lightness that links it to the rest of Beethoven's pastoral repertoire. Sample the quiet passage at the end of the finale, one of several places on the album where the talents of instrument maker, performer, and composer seem to converge as they might have in a...
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Add this copy of A Noble & Melancholy Instrument to cart. $21.80, new condition, Sold by Importcds rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sunrise, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2017 by BIS.
Add this copy of A Noble and Melancholy Instrument: Music for horns and to cart. $55.26, new condition, Sold by Entertainment by Post - UK rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BRISTOL, SOUTH GLOS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2017 by BIS.
