A suggestion that I have made here from time to time will work for this
combination. Many standard trio sonatas scored for two soprano
instruments, bass and/or figured bass will work nicely when the horn takes
the 2nd soprano line. That is usually intended to be another violin part,
or oboe or blockflute; often the instrumentation is left open to the
discretion of the players.
The horn would most likely have to be transposed to C-basso, not C-alto,
and so would sound an octave lower than the composer had in mind, but
nonetheless there are many TS's that still sound quite well.
The pianist will count the piano part as somewhat unchallenging by
comparison to pieces written for piano, but as these sonatas are composed
by guys with names like Telemann, Vivaldi, Quantz, Stamitz, Loiellet, and
Bach, the music is reliably crowd-pleasing. Especially when spectators
look up to see a Geyer-wrap(TM) oboe in the mix.
If anyone is interested, I can list a few TS's that I know work well for
horn, even for two horns - that is, replacing both soprano parts with
horn. Think double horn concerto, like Vivaldi's, but nicer.
{ David Goldberg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] }
{ Math Dept, Washtenaw Community College }
{ Ann Arbor Michigan }
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