If I remember correctly, Harnoncourt did a version of the second
Brandenburg with natural horn a long time ago and even recorded it.
Just tried to find the recording in the LP collection gathering dust
in the basement, but had no luck. As I remember, it took a while to
get used to the horn at the lower octave, but, again if my aural
memory serves me, it did seem to work better with the other solo
instruments than does the clarino sound we are used to today.
Eric
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On 10.09.2007, at 17:54, John Howell wrote:
it must have been intended for the horn and not the
trumpet. Just compare the relative positions of the violin, oboe and
recorder at the opening and the "trumpet" part must be an octave
lower.
And before anybody points out that the recorder part is an octave
too high,
it was standard practice to treat recorders (and flutes) as if they
played
at four foot pitch, even though they were now notated at sounding
pitch.
I'm not sure that any musical analysis could prove such an
hypothesis, but as a practical matter it would solve a number of
problems now without answers. I've read this speculation before,
although I can't remember where.
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