On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 00:17, Ralph Mazza <[email protected]> wrote: > One seldom hears music for natural horn, even on the classical music > stations, so I was surprised and delighted to happen upon what sounded to me > (rank amateur) like a spectacularly well-played natural horn duet. The > station's (WGBH - Boston) playlist identified the recording as follows: > > Teunis van der Zwart & Erwin Wieringa, horn duo > Die Koelner Akademie/Michael Alexander Willens, cond. > Ferdinand Ries Double Horn Concerto * Violin Concerto > Track Label: CPO Catalog Number: 777 353 > > I've never heard of the players, the conductor, or the orchestra. If anyone > knows of more impressive natural horn performances on CD, please let us > know. > > R. Mazza >
These two players are pretty well known in natural horn playing circles, especially in the Holland/Germany region. Teunis is the natural horn teacher at the Amsterdam conservatory, and Erwin has been his regular sidekick for many years. If you like their playing check out most recordings of the last decade or so of the Freiburger Baroque Orchestra and wind ensemble Nachtmusique, and probably a few of the Orchestra of the 18th Century as well. Teunis can also be heard on the awesome recordings of Zelenka's orchestral works by "Das Neu-Eroeffnete Orchestre" (copy and paste the orchestras name in google and amazon will provide a link to the cd's. Buy all three!) The orchestra Koelner Akademie is fairly new. They have another recording of special interest to us: "Chant d'Automne", a CD full of French and Belgian romantic works for horn and orchestra, containing a few old favourites like both of Saint-Saens' Romances and some newly rediscovered works. These are played superbly on a variety of natural and early valved horns by Ulrich Huebner. But this as well! Michiel van der Linden Bruges, Belgium _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
