Alec Frank-Gemmill, Nicholas McGegan, Swedish Chamber Orchestra - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Horn Concertos (2024)

Posted By: ArlegZ

Date: May 26, 2025

After Alec Frank-Gemmill's critically acclaimed recordings of nineteenth-century works for horn and piano (BIS-2228), chamber music by Brahms (BIS-2478) and pre-Mozart horn concertos (BIS-2315), a version of Mozart's famous horn concertos from him has been eagerly awaited. As on his disc of concertante works, he is accompanied here by the Swedish Chamber Orchestra conducted by an expert in 18th-century style, Nicholas McGegan. Mozart's relationship with the Viennese horn player Joseph Leutgeb was both a friendly and a musical one, and most of the works here were written especially for him. Spanning some ten years, from 1781 to the composer's death, the four standard concertos and other fragments follow Mozart's stylistic development, and are thus contemporary with the operatic trilogy with libretti by Da Ponte, the final symphonies and the last piano concertos. Elegant, refined and suave, the horn concertos take advantage of the unique colours of this instrument and do not shy away from the it's traditional associations with the postal service and hunting.In addition to Mozart's four 'official' concertos, this recording also includes movements left in draft form, completed and restored by the composer and horn-player Stephen Roberts, giving us a further work here named 'Concerto No. 0'.

Performer:
Alec Frank-Gemmill, horn
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan, conductor

Tracklist:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Concerto No. 1 in D major for horn and orchestra
01. I. Allegro, K 412 (1791)
02. II. Adagio, K 211 (1775)
03. III. Rondo. Allegro, K 514 (1791)
Concerto No. 2 in E flat major for horn and orchestra, K 417 (1783)
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Andante
06. III. Rondo. Allegro - Più allegro
Concerto No. 3 in E flat major for horn and orchestra, K 447 (1787)
07. I. Allegro
08. II. Romance. Larghetto
09. III. Allegro
Concerto No. 4 in E flat major for horn and orchestra, K 495 (1786)
10. I. Allegro maestoso
11. II. Romance. Andante cantabile
12. III. Rondo. Allegro vivace
Concerto ‘No. 0‘ in E flat major for horn and orchestra (1781)
13. I. [Allegro], K 370b
14. II. Rondeau. Allegro, K 371

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