Horn Concertos---performers/composers

[Luke]

btw, the first movement of Janacek's delectable Concertino for piano and ensemble is scorer for only piano and horn; according to one possible interpretation of the movement (put forward by Janacek himself) the horn represents a hedgehog here, IIRC. Whatever, it's echt Janacek, that movement.

[springrite]

I have a lot of Schoeck CDs, and i think this is on one of them.....pretty sure it is actually, and I remember it being a lovely piece, though it's the songs of Schoeck which are always the draw for me. In which case, it's on CPO, fwiw 

You are absolutely right. I have about 7 or 8 of his song cycles and they are some of the best. Better than his operas. In fact they are some of the best songs after Mahler and Strauss.

I have heard his cello sonata on the radio many years ago but did not find a CD of it. I remembered it as being very good. Other than that I have the violin concerto which is not as good as the horn concerto.

[ahinton]

Anyone mention the Knussen concerto already? It's a truly gorgeous little piece, really atmospheric, full of great ideas, stunningly orchestrated and laid-out, on of the most attractive concerti of the last decade or two IMO. There's a horn concerto by Robin Holloway which is rather nice as well.  Both written for Tuckwell and easily available in excellent recordings by him

And while on the subject of relatively recent British ones, what about that by Colin Matthews, in which (among other features) the peripatetic relationship between the solo horn and the orchestral ones appears almost to suggest some kind of tangential relationship with the perambulatory rôle of the soloist in Thea Musgrave's Clarinet Concerto...

[Luke]

... or Luke Ottevanger's concertante work for [ambulatory] trumpet and orchestra The Chant of Carnus....              0:)  0:)  0:)  0:)

[snyprrr]

What's the horniest piece you ever heard?

[Grazioso]

What's the horniest piece you ever heard?

[listener]

Philips 426 321 is interesting for the contrast between valved and natural horn sounds.
And somewhat unexpected was the discovery on my shelf of a disc devoted to Carl Czerny's
Three Brilliant Fantasies on Themes by Franz Schubert  for horn and piano, op.339 
(on Etcetera KTC 1121 -   Barry Tuckwell with Daniel Blumenthal)

[Superhorn]

  How  about  Schumann's  wonderful  but  terrifyingly  difficult  Konzertstuck  for  four  horns  and  orchestra, one  of  the  earliest  solo  works  for  valved  horn?
  If  you  haven't  played  the horn,  you  can't  appreciate  how  monstrously  difficult  it  its.
  This  piece  is  the  musical  equivalent  of  walking  tightrope  without  a safety  net  over  hungry  lions  and  a  pool  of  sharks .
  There  a  a  number  of  fine  recordings  of  it  including  Barenboim/Chicago, Tennstedt/BPO,
   Thielemann/Philharmonia, Gardiner ORR,  etc. , each with the horn sections of these orchestras.

[listener]

horns in bulk  (eight of them with no opposition)
Acanta 43 800 -  8 Bayreuther Festspiel-Hornisten - 4 Wagner opera fantasies