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In Reply to: Looking for French horn recommendations... posted by Waxxy on April 27, 2012 at 13:56:49:
Hi Waxxy - I am a professional horn player. You have some great jazz recommendations here, and a few good classical ones, too. The jazz ones will be very hard to find, though, except for things like Birth of the Cool, but the horns are not very prominent on that.
For classical, the Dennis Brain recording of the Mozart Horn Concertos cannot be beat. Equaled, perhaps, but not beat. For the Strauss Concertos, probably the best is Hermann Baumann's. He is most professional player's other favorite soloist besides Brain. Both of these are better musical choices than Tuckwell, though there are certainly alot of his recordings still out there too. A more current soloist is Radovan Vlatkovic, who was Baumann's best student. Any young horn student should certainly have a recording of the Mozart Concertos and the Strauss Concertos.
Now for some more suggestions - there are some fantastic horn ensemble recordings out there. My favorites are those done by the Vienna Horns. There is a fun combination of arrangements of classical pieces and movie music on all of their albums. Another popular one is the London Horn Sound. There is also a Texas Horn Sound disc as well.
If your young hornist eventually has professional aspirations, he will need to know all of the Beethoven symphonies, all of the Brahms symphonies, and all of the Strauss tone poems like the back of his hand, for a start. Also the Tchaikovsky 5th Symphony, as has already been mentioned. The classic Brahms horn section was the old Cleveland Orchestra section under George Szell. The section playing on those recordings is fantastic. For Strauss, try the Vienna Phil or the older Chicago Symphony recordings under Fritz Reiner.
Feel free to email me if you want some more suggestions.
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Topic - Looking for French horn recommendations... - Waxxy 13:56:49 04/27/12 ( 27)
- RE: Looking for French horn recommendations... - Hi-Fidelity 06:47:18 09/8/12 ( 0)
Willie Ruff - Lew 10:35:56 05/1/12 ( 0)
RE: Looking for French horn recommendations... - learsfool 04/28/12 21:17:29 04/28/12 ( 0)
RE: Looking for French horn recommendations... - bassrome 12:05:36 04/28/12 ( 0)
2nd mov't of the Borodin Symphony 2 has the most gorgeous horn solo of all but short, and of course Tchaikovsk - jdaniel@jps.net 09:25:10 04/28/12 ( 0)
RE: Looking for French horn recommendations... - ctbarker32 08:02:17 04/28/12 ( 2)
- RE: Looking for French horn recommendations... - ctbarker32 08:08:30 04/28/12 ( 1)
- RE: Looking for French horn recommendations... - Waxxy 12:34:05 04/28/12 ( 0)
Stan Freberg "History of the United States" if you want a little french horn humor - hiatt@alaska.net 20:37:27 04/27/12 ( 3)
- RE: Stan Freberg "History of the United States" if you want a little french horn humor - must 15:04:49 04/28/12 ( 2)
- RE: Stan Freberg "History of the United States" if you want a little french horn humor - a poster 20:03:45 09/7/12 ( 0)
- Just picked this one up today, but no french horns on it . . . - hiatt@alaska.net 17:46:53 04/28/12 ( 0)
If a French Horn ... - reelsmith. 18:25:40 04/27/12 ( 3)
- RE: If a French Horn ... - michaelhigh 08:54:51 04/29/12 ( 0)
IMO a french horn is most like a valved trombone... in the way it is played nt - Elizabeth 20:31:34 04/27/12 ( 1)
- Only some do - early versions - kavakidd 23:21:14 04/27/12 ( 0)
Wow!! Thanks everyone...lots a great suggestions here. Nt - Waxxy 18:15:56 04/27/12 ( 0)
Jazz French Horn...Gotta check out David Amram's recordings..... - BillyBenBilly 18:07:07 04/27/12 ( 0)
Jazz horn recommendations - tlea 17:52:25 04/27/12 ( 0)
RE: Looking for French horn recommendations... - vinyl phanatic 17:11:53 04/27/12 ( 0)
try these - musiclistener 16:30:23 04/27/12 ( 2)
- RE: try these - Waxxy 17:08:16 04/27/12 ( 1)
- Geddit? They're JBL's... - Waxxy 19:38:13 04/27/12 ( 0)
I generally like anything played by Dennis Brain or Barry Tuckwell.... - BillyBenBilly 15:42:37 04/27/12 ( 0)
Mozart four Horn Concertos (they always are recorded together.). Great music BTW! - Elizabeth 14:27:53 04/27/12 ( 1)
- RE: Mozart four Horn Concertos (they always are recorded together.). Great music BTW! - Elizabeth 14:32:57 04/27/12 ( 0)
Perhaps - the second movement of Mahler - kavakidd 14:14:36 04/27/12 ( 0)