The Royal Brussels Hornsound: Flemish Romantic Music on Period Instruments | Fuga Libera FUG550

The Royal Brussels Hornsound: Flemish Romantic Music on Period Instruments

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Label: Fuga Libera

Cat No: FUG550

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 25th May 2009

Contents

Works

Dubois
Octet for 8 Chromatic French horns

Mengal
Great octet for 6 horns & 2 trombones

Artists

Luc Berge (horn)
Jeroen Billiet (horn)
Bart Cypers (horn)
Frank Clarysse (horn)
Mark de Merlier (horn)
Bart Indevuyst (horn)
Miek Laforce (horn)
Bert Wanderhoeft (horn)
Johann Van Neste (horn)
Gunter Carlier (trombone)
Joost Swinkels (trombone)

Conductor

Diederik de Rouck

Works

Dubois
Octet for 8 Chromatic French horns

Mengal
Great octet for 6 horns & 2 trombones

Artists

Luc Berge (horn)
Jeroen Billiet (horn)
Bart Cypers (horn)
Frank Clarysse (horn)
Mark de Merlier (horn)
Bart Indevuyst (horn)
Miek Laforce (horn)
Bert Wanderhoeft (horn)
Johann Van Neste (horn)
Gunter Carlier (trombone)
Joost Swinkels (trombone)

Conductor

Diederik de Rouck

About

The first in a new Fuga Libera strand dedicated to masters of the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Brussels, this CD highlights the art of Luc Bergé, presenting two important masterpieces of chamber music. They are performed in octet and in sextet on ancient French horns by the soloist of the l'Orchestre des Champs Elysées and seven of his disciples.

Léon Dubois reigned as director of the Brussels Conservatory but was also a very fine, and pretty Wagnerian, fin-de-siècle composer. His octet is performed on eight horns from Van Cauwelaert's workshop, the main competitor of Mahillon, Wagner's official supplier. These horns, made in two types, from Liège and from Ghent, are aesthetically in between the French and German horn styles, so very different in those days.

Mengal's
Octet was written between 1817 and 1820 in Paris. The Octet is performed on six authentic horns of the French style.

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