{"id":847,"date":"2020-05-18T10:21:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T10:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=847"},"modified":"2024-03-10T21:20:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T21:20:48","slug":"one-of-the-greatest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/one-of-the-greatest\/","title":{"rendered":"One Of The Greatest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t my original plan, but when I saw that today would have been Dennis Brain&#8217;s 99th birthday it seemed as though I ought to have him playing something.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This popped up when I went looking and it is &#8211; unusually &#8211; a video of him playing. He does a little demonstration of the differences between the (natural) horn that Beethoven was probably most familiar with and a modern (well modern-ish as it is a number of years ago now) horn.<\/p>\n<p>The Beethoven Sonata for Horn and Piano is definitely not easy to play, but he does make it sound pretty effortless. I think I can safely say that I didn&#8217;t ever manage to perform it quite this well\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"middle\" title=\"&amp;#58;&amp;#68;\" src=\"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/rsc\/smilies\/icon_biggrin.gif\" alt=\"&amp;#58;&amp;#68;\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sLfRowNmtG4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ludwig van Beethoven : Sonata for Horn and Piano<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sLfRowNmtG4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t my original plan, but when I saw that today would have been Dennis Brain&#8217;s 99th birthday it seemed as though I ought to have him playing something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[76,78,92,93],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-brass","tag-classical","tag-horns","tag-instrumental"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}