Those of you who have followed this series of posts will no doubt have noticed a slight bias towards orchestral music with good horn parts from time to time 😂 – today’s ‘big piece’ is another example of that.
Horns
An Opportunity to Boogie
Something light from the London Horn Sound today – its been a while since they last featured in my posts!!
A Simple Song
Leonard Bernstein has featured a few times – as conductor and composer – and this is another share of his music – this time it is not from West Side Story but from his Mass. Arranged for Brass Quintet this version is from one of my favourite CDs from the many that the Canadian Brass have produced – I know I have shared at least one track from this before.
Every Horn Player’s Dream!
(or perhaps nightmare 😂) Yesterday we had a lesser known piece by Beethoven – today we have one of the most recognisable by Richard Strauss – at least it is if you are a horn player 😉 – for everyone else it is the opening few bars of Also Sprach Zarathustra!!
High Horn
I’ve been neglecting the horn players recently 😃
Central European Traditions
Continuing the theme…. we return from New Orleans to Europe – but very different from Monday’s Bruckner. I am aware that my music choices are sometimes aimed at quite a small audience and I suspect that this is one of those 🤔 Anyway, its been a while since we had some horn music.
Mellow Maria
Very different to yesterday – I think this is a great arrangement – and some really lovely horn playing on it as well. (actually it is a great CD as a whole)
A Wagner Overture
Not much of a story attached to this choice except that this was one of the pieces of music that I performed most often in concerts. Good to play – Wagner’s writing for horn is almost always – and I enjoy listening to this one as well.
A Horn Memory
According to a post by the International Horn Society it seems that today is David Krehbiel’s birthday.
Dancing Horns
Its been a little while since we had horn music 😂😉 so here is a fun little piece – played this many times in the concert band arrangement – but never this arrangement. It sort of sticks with the Germanic theme for this week – its the Berlin Horns – and some of them are German😃