Horns Galore! – February 19, Maison Symphonique

Kent Nagano, conductor
John Zirbel, horn
Denys Derome, horn
Catherine Turner, horn
Nadia Côté, horn
Richard Robert, violin
Timothy Hutchins, flute
Olga Gross, harpsichord

Presentation of Horns Galore!

Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050 (approx. 21 min.)

Schumann, Konzertstück for four horns in F major, Op. 86 (approx. 21 min.)

Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 107 (Reformation) (approx. 27 min.)

Music lovers rarely get to hear the horn as a solo instrument in a concert. So what’s to be said when the entire OSM horn section comes to the front of the stage? Such will be the case when four horn players perform Schumann’s Konzertstück, a work composed about the time as the Piano Concerto and employing the newly-developed valve horn. This meaty, all-German program includes Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, the first keyboard concerto in music history, and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5 (Reformation), written as part of the festivities surrounding the three hundredth anniversary of the Augsburg Confession in 1830.

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