A Noble and Melancholy Instrument: Music for horns & pianos of the 19th century
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BIS2228
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 28th April 2017
Contents
Works
Horn Sonata in F major, op.17Villanelle
Reverie, op.24
Prelude, Theme and Variations
Romance in E major, op.67
Adagio and Allegro, op.70
Nocturno, op.7
Hunter's moon
Artists
Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn)Alasdair Beatson (piano)
Works
Horn Sonata in F major, op.17Villanelle
Reverie, op.24
Prelude, Theme and Variations
Romance in E major, op.67
Adagio and Allegro, op.70
Nocturno, op.7
Hunter's moon
Artists
Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn)Alasdair Beatson (piano)
About
The present disc is a unique combination of recital and history lesson, with a young British team performing music from between 1800 and 1942 on no less than eight different historic instruments: four horns and four pianos. This gives us the opportunity to hear the works on instruments that the different composers would have recognized, whether Beethoven's Sonata in F major (a natural horn from 1800 and a fortepiano from 1815) or the Villanelle by Paul Dukas from 1906 (an early twentieth-century cor à pistons and a Bechstein from 1898). Both notable performers on modern instruments, Alec Frank-Gemmill and Alasdair Beatson here revel in the sonic possibilities offered by the historic instruments with results that are as delighting as they are enlightening.
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