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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)