Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Horn Concertos (Barry Tuckwell)

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Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• (01-02) Horn Concerto No. 1 in D major, K. 386b
• (03-05) Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, K. 417
• (06-08) Horn Concerto No. 3 in E flat major, K. 447
• (09-11) Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat major, K. 495
• (12)      Allegro for horn & orchestra in E major, K. Anh. 98a (K. 494a) (Fragment)
• (13)      Rondo for horn & orchestra in E flat major, K. 371

Barry Tuckwell, horn
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner, conductor

Date: 1971/2001
Label: EMI

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Review

Yet two more sets of Mozart horn concertos to add to a huge list on CD, with Barry Tuckwell's earliest Decca recordings (with Peter Maag) due out shortly on a Weekend CD. I have always had a soft spot for these, but there is no doubt that Tuckwell's second EMI recording, released in 1972, has the advantage of more modern sound, and characteristically elegant and graceful playing from Sir Neville and his ASMF. The Romanze of No. 3, K447 and the Andante of No. 4 K495 both have a glorious lyrical flow, Tuckwell's timbre is rich and yet the rondos are delectably pointed and spontaneous—there is an attractive accelerando at the coda of the finale of No. 2, K417. The Academy strings sound very fresh and dance beautifully in the allegros. The EMI collection also has the advantage of including the Concert Rondo and the Fragment, K494a, which ends in mid-air, as it were, and this reissue can be strongly recommended on all counts.

-- Ivan March, Gramophone

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 in Salzburg – 5 December 1791 in Vienna) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. Till his death in Vienna, he composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. Mozart is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence is profound on subsequent Western art music.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart

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Barry Tuckwell (born 5 March 1931 in Melbourne) is an Australian horn player who has spent most of his professional life in the United Kingdom and the United States, and is generally considered one of the world's leading horn players. Tuckwell was first horn of the London Symphony Orchestra from 1955 to 1968, then resigned to pursue a career as a soloist and conductor. For the next thirty years, he carved out a career exclusively as soloist — one of the few horn virtuosos to have done so. Tuckwell is also well known as a conductor, appearing with leading orchestras in Europe and the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Tuckwell

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