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PSA: Strauss 1 has No Exposition

In recent years I have seen repeated references to an “exposition” of the first Strauss horn concerto. What makes it very puzzling is the...

Lessons in Vienna, part IV: Brahms 3

This series of articles expands on notes taken by Nicholas Smith in lessons with Roland Berger in 1977. After finishing with the solos in the...

4 charming works of B. Ed. Müller for horn and piano...

In thinking about horn repertoire, and teaching it completely online for the end of this semester, my mind turned to the question of what...

Mozart K407 – We should be playing this work more often

In my summer practice I’ve kept coming back to the Mozart Quintet for horn and strings K407, and the more I look...

Tempos and the Hindemith Sonata

Tempo choice is always an interpretation question. At the 2019 IWBC Gail Williams performed the Hindemith Sonata on...

20th century horn favorites 3: Madsen

Last up in this brief series looking at some of my favorite works for the horn from the 20th century (all included in my...

20th century horn favorites 2: Schmid and Cooke

Continuing this brief series looking at 20th century works I chose to include on my Canto CD, next up is Im Tiefsten Walde, Op....

20th century horn favorites 1: Gliere and Nielsen

We all like good music, and a lot of wonderful music for the horn was composed in the 20th century. I have five favorites...

A look at the Danzi Sonata, Op. 28

On my Summit CD Canto, which recently was posted on YouTube in full, I included several works that I felt have not received quite...

A look at the Fantasie, Op. 2 of Franz Strauss

As noted in my recent article on the Theme and Variations, Op. 13, of Franz Strauss, in 2003 I released an album I titled...
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