Today’s choice is another piece of music dating back to school years – in this case to school exams.<\/p>\n
The Scottish Higher Music exam included a practical part – which was clearly different for each possible instrument.\u00a0 I’ve often wondered just how many people ever sat the exam with French Horn as their instrument.\u00a0 There was – if I remember correctly – no choice of music to perform.\u00a0 The three pieces were the first movement of Haydn’s 2nd Concerto, the second movement of Mozart’s 4th Concerto and the finale of Richard Strauss’ 1st Concerto – which is today’s choice.<\/p>\n
The video accompanying this recording is the score, so you can follow (or even play) along – you can also see why I hardly ever asked anyone to accompany me on the piano in this – not the easiest \ud83d\ude2e\u00a0 I also didn’t get the opportunity to perform this concerto with an orchestra – although when the Wessex Youth Orchestra had it on their programme I did play it with them in rehearsals when they preparing before the soloist came along for the final rehearsal.<\/p>\n