Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Barry Tuckwell was one of the world's greatest players of the French horn. He made the notoriously ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was an Austrian composer and performer who could play and write music from the age of four! A concerto is a piece for a solo instrumentalist and orchestra. A concerto shows off ...

The French horn. It’s the heart and soul of any symphony orchestra, and writing for it always brought out the best in Mozart, Brahms, Richard Strauss and so many other great composers. But don’t let ...

This is partly because of the wealth of sumptuous orchestral writing which allows the horn to shine from the back of the orchestra at key moments without requiring it to carry the entire performance, ...

Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 29 June 2015, after 6pm. Haydn/Mozart: Horn Concertos performed by Felix Klieser. The award-winning young horn player Felix Klieser – who was born without arms and ...

If you thought period performances were getting more conventional, think again. Pip Eastop plays Mozart’s four horn concertos on a modern copy of an 1830 natural horn with an astonishing variety of ...

The horn in Mozart's time was significantly different from the instrument we know today as the French horn. William Caballero is the principal horn player of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He ...

The Redlands Symphony Orchestra will present “Mozart, the Essence of Music,” a concert featuring music by Mozart, 8 p.m. Saturday, March 26, in the University of Redlands Memorial Chapel. The program ...

The first recordings of Mozart's horn concertos using the kind of instrument the composer would have been familiar with appeared in the early 1970s. The inescapable contrast between the open and ...

The concertos for solo horn and orchestra by Mozart fall into this latter category, although not all are as familiar to audiences as (the wrongly numbered) No 4 (K495) of Flanders and Swann "An Ill ...