Word: hornists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Friday's concert Mallory Walker was tenor soloist with hornist Ralph Pottle, a member of the Boston Fine Arts Woodwind Quintet. Mr. Pottle unfortunately made a series of disastrous mistakes in his opening solo, and although the program notes explained that "the opening and closing horn passages shall be played as directed by the composer--on the natural harmonics of the instrument--hence the irregularities in intonation," it was painfully obvious to all what had happened when the identical passage was correctly played at the end of the piece. Those who realized at the time that Britten had not intended...
Mozart: Concertos for Horn and Orchestra (Albert Linder, horn; Vienna State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Hans Swarowsky; Vanguard). The four concertos Mozart wrote for horn are all beauties -full of pert, charming and sometimes humorous ideas put together with faultless style and taste. Danish Hornist Linder does them justice...
...more than an operatic halloo. The composers are Russian and French, most of them dyed-in-the-brass romantics: Gliere, Cui, Glazunov, Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Dukas, Faure. The most interesting work is Francis Poulenc's sparsely angular, twelve-tone Elegie written in tribute to Britain's late, great hornist, Dennis Brain. The Boston Symphony's Stagliano summons a rich, clear and remarkably controlled sound...