BaL 16.09.17 - Mozart: Horn Quintet in E flat

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

9.30 a.m.

Sarah Walker listens to some of the available recordings of Mozart's Horn Quintet and makes a recommendation. Mozart's genial Horn Quintet was the first work he wrote for the Viennese virtuoso Joseph Leutgeb, who must have been a wonderful player to have inspired such music. By turns lyrical, virtuosic, and humorous, it reflects Mozart's affection for both instrument and player, a gem of the chamber repertoire recorded by many of the leading horn players of the modern era, whether soloists, principals of major orchestras, or period instrument specialists.

Available versions:

Radek Baborák, Baborák Ensemble
Hermann Baumann, Karl Suske , Dietmar Hallman, Olaf Hallmann, Christian Ockert
Hermann Baumann, Gewandhaus-Quartett
Stephen Bell, Lindsay String Quartet
Dennis Brain, English String Quartet
Dennis Brain, Griller String Quartet
Timothy Brown, Iona Brown, Stephen Shingles, Anthony Jenkins, Denis Vigay
Wilhelm Bruns, Quadriga-Quartett
Andrew Clark, Ensemble Galant (download)
Peter Damm, Ubbrich Quartet
Stefan Dohr, Berlin Philharmonic Quartet
Pip Eastop, Eroica Quartet
Lowell Greer, Linda Quan, Anthony Martin, David Miller, Loretta O'Sullivan
Nash Ensemble (download)
Jenö Keveházi, Kodaly Quartet
Nury Guarnaschelli, Signum Quartet
Xiaoming Han
Pierre-Yves Madeuf, Kuijken String Quartet
David Pyatt , Kenneth Sillito, Robert Smissen, Stephen Tees, Stephen Orton
Anneke Scott, Ironwood
Gerd Seifert, Amadeus Quartet
Gerd Seifert, Brandis Quartet
Stephen Stirling, The Fibonacci Sequence
Michael Thompson, AAM Chamber Players
Barry Tuckwell, Fine Arts Quartet
Barry Tuckwell , Kenneth Sillito, Kenneth Essex, Ian Jewel, Kenneth Harvey
Pierre Del Vescovo, Quatuor Barchet
Ab Koster, Vera Beths, Lucy Van Dael, Jurgen Kussmaul, Anner Bylsma
Radovan Vlatkovic, Ensemble Villa Musica
Radovan Vlatkovic, Berlin Soloists
Jonathan Williams, Gaudier Ensemble
Teunis van der Zwart, Marc Destrubé, Staas Swierstra, Emilio Moreno, Albert Brüggen
Willard Zirk, Arianna String Quartet


Arrangement:

Australia Ensemble (arr. for string quintet)

[vinteuil]

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Baumann with the Gewandhaus
Thompson with the AAM chamber ensemble
Brain with the Grillers

... all these three are are in the big Mozart box

Seifert with the Brandis in the brilliant box

and not forgetting -

Stephen Bell with the Lindsays


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[vinteuil]

Hermann Daumann, Gewandhaus-Quartett

... Daumann typo for Baumann?

( and Gerd Seifert with the Brandis is currently with the B's rather than the S's... )


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[Eine Alpensinfonie]

... Daumann typo for Baumann?

( and Gerd Seifert with the Brandis is currently with the B's rather than the S's... )


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Thanks. Will fix.

[richardfinegold]

[QUOTE=Eine Alpensinfonie;637072]9.30 a.m.

Sarah Walker listens to some of the available recordings of Mozart's Horn Quintet and makes a recommendation. Mozart's genial Horn Quintet was the first work he wrote for the Viennese virtuoso Joseph Leutgeb, who must have been a wonderful player to have inspired such music. By turns lyrical, virtuosic, and humorous, it reflects Mozart's affection for both instrument and player, a gem of the chamber repertoire recorded by many of the leading horn players of the modern era, whether soloists, principals of major orchestras, or period instrument specialists.

Available versions:

Radek Baborák, Baborák Ensemble
Hermann Baumann, Karl Suske , Dietmar Hallman, Olaf Hallmann, Christian Ockert
Hermann Baumann, Gewandhaus-Quartett
Stephen Bell, Lindsay String Quartet
Dennis Brain, English String Quartet
Dennis Brain, Griller String Quartet
Timothy Brown, Iona Brown, Stephen Shingles, Anthony Jenkins, Denis Vigay
Wilhelm Bruns, Quadriga-Quartett
Andrew Clark, Ensemble Galant (download)
Peter Damm, Ubbrich Quartet
Stefan Dohr, Berlin Philharmonic Quartet
Pip Eastop, Eroica Quartet
Lowell Greer, Linda Quan, Anthony Martin, David Miller, Loretta O'Sullivan
Nash Ensemble (download)
Jenö Keveházi, Kodaly Quartet
Nury Guarnaschelli, Signum Quartet
Xiaoming Han
Pierre-Yves Madeuf, Kuijken String Quartet
David Pyatt , Kenneth Sillito, Robert Smissen, Stephen Tees, Stephen Orton
Anneke Scott, Ironwood
Gerd Seifert, Amadeus Quartet
Gerd Seifert, Brandis Quartet
Stephen Stirling, The Fibonacci Sequence
Barry Tuckwell, Fine Arts Quartet
Barry Tuckwell , Kenneth Sillito, Kenneth Essex, Ian Jewel, Kenneth Harvey
Pierre Del Vescovo, Quatuor Barchet
Ab Koster, Vera Beths, Lucy Van Dael, Jurgen Kussmaul, Anner Bylsma
Radovan Vlatkovic, Ensemble Villa Musica
Radovan Vlatkovic, Berlin Soloists
Jonathan Williams, Gaudier Ensemble
Teunis van der Zwart, Marc Destrubé, Staas Swierstra, Emilio Moreno, Albert Brüggen
Willard Zirk, Arianna String Quartet


Arrangement:

The recording that I've been listening to for a few decades isn't listed. It features Michael Thompson and the AAM Chamber Players. I've checked and it's available through both Presto and Arkiv Music. I have it on a disc with the Clarinet Quintet and the Oboe Quartet and it's probably logged as much time in my CD Player as any disc that I own. Now it seems to be available as part of a much larger collection but the Horn Quintet can be downloaded separately via Presto.
I had forgotten until now that the lineup is 1 violin, 2 violas instead of the more common arrangement

[pastoralguy]

As always, sterling work Sir.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

[QUOTE=richardfinegold;637169]

The recording that I've been listening to for a few decades isn't listed. It features Michael Thompson and the AAM Chamber Players. I've checked and it's available through both Presto and Arkiv Music. I have it on a disc with the Clarinet Quintet and the Oboe Quartet and it's probably logged as much time in my CD Player as any disc that I own. Now it seems to be available as part of a much larger collection but the Horn Quintet can be downloaded separately via Presto.

[Hornspieler]

A fine recording by John Barrows with the Fine Arts Quintet of New York. The disk also included the Oboe 4tet .

This was a very good ensemble. The vinyl record is on my shelves somewhere - I'll do a search.

HS

[Bryn]

Pip and the Eroicas suits me just fine as my 'go to'.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Pip and the Eroicas suits me just fine as my 'go to'.

- together with the three versions in "the Big Box", I don't think I'll be spending any more money as a result of this BaL. I look forward to being proved wrong,

[Barbirollians]

- together with the three versions in "the Big Box", I don't think I'll be spending any more money as a result of this BaL. I look forward to being proved wrong,

I have Dennis Brain with the Griller Quartet on a Decca Historic CD with the Curzon/Amadeus recordings of the Piano Quartets . I have never felt the need for another recording despite its 1944 sound

Except of course it is also on the BBC Legends CD of Dennis Brain recordings with the English SQ .I must dig that out .

[BBMmk2]

One I'll be giving a miss!

[Richard Tarleton]

The recording that I've been listening to for a few decades isn't listed. It features Michael Thompson and the AAM Chamber Players. I've checked and it's available through both Presto and Arkiv Music. I have it on a disc with the Clarinet Quintet and the Oboe Quartet and it's probably logged as much time in my CD Player as any disc that I own. Now it seems to be available as part of a much larger collection but the Horn Quintet can be downloaded separately via Presto.
I had forgotten until now that the lineup is 1 violin, 2 violas instead of the more common arrangement

Duly amended I see - I don't have the recording, but saw Michael Thompson (still a teenager) playing it in a chamber concert at Snape Maltings on Easter Sunday 1972. Can't remember who with. Britten and Pears also performed a song cycle (Holy Sonnets). One of those concerts that sticks in the mind.

[Stanfordian]

One I'll be giving a miss!

Me too maestro! But then I hardly ever listen to R3 these days.

[BBMmk2]

Me too maestro! But then I hardly ever listen to R3 these days.

Don't you listen to the Proms, Stan?