Mozart: Horn Concertos: Recorded 20–23 November 1996, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam.

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These fine Dutch performances on modern instruments feature the only recording of the D major Horn Concerto, K412 complete with Mozart's riotous annotations on the manuscript. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 20th May 2013
Catalogue No: 94644
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 79 minutes

Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, K417

Work length13:21

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Herman Jeurissen
Roy Goodman

I. Allegro maestoso

Track length6:29

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II. Andante

Track length3:19

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III. Rondo

Track length3:33

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Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 3 in E flat major, K447

Work length14:25

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$3.90

Herman Jeurissen
Roy Goodman

I. Allegro

Track length6:40

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II. Romanze

Track length3:56

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III. Allegro

Track length3:49

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Mozart: Horn Concerto in E Major, K. 494a: I. Allegro

Work length9:02

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$2.60

Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
Roy Goodman

Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 1 in D major, K412 (K386b)

Work length8:52

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$2.60

Herman Jeurissen
Roy Goodman

I. Allegro

Track length4:48

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II. Rondo: Allegro

Track length4:04

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Mozart: Fragment in E flat major, K370b

Work length7:21

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$2.60

Herman Jeurissen
Roy Goodman

Mozart: Concert Rondo, K 371

Work length6:00

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$1.30

Herman Jeurissen
Roy Goodman

Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat major, K495

Work length16:11

$4.00

$5.20

Herman Jeurissen
Roy Goodman

I. Allegro maestoso

Track length7:40

$2.00

$2.60

II. Romance: Andante cantabile

Track length4:26

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III. Rondo: Allegro vivace

Track length4:05

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Excerpt, Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 1 in D major, K412 (K386b)

Work length4:03

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Herman Jeurissen
Roy Goodman

Horn Concerto No. 1 in D Major, K. 412: I. Allegro

Track length4:03

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$1.30

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Mozart excelled in all areas of composition, and his horn concertos – despite making up a very modest part of his total output – still reside among the finest achievements in the horn literature. The composer became acquainted with the mellow sonorities of the instrument from an early age, courtesy of his friend Joseph Leutgeb, who had been employed by the Hofkapelle in Salzburg. It was not until the remaining 10 years of his life, however, that Mozart finally set to work on his six concertos for horn.

Apart from K370b/371, which represents the composer’s first attempt at writing a horn concerto and whose musical content differs markedly from that of the later ones – there are no ‘hunting effects’ in the rondo and the first movement is more declamatory in style than lyrical – it seems that all of the works were composed for Leutgeb, who was often a target of Mozart’s mockery and teasing. Though the numerous points of harmonic, melodic and structural correspondence between the pieces suggest that Mozart did not take this genre especially seriously, the works still delight the listener for their gaiety, lightness of touch and warmth of orchestration. It is therefore a shame that only three of the six pieces remain complete, a resulting combination of more pressing work, lost manuscripts and the composer’s untimely death. Jeurissen, the soloist on this recording and principal horn player of the Residentie Orchestra in The Hague, has taken it upon himself, based on analyses of similar passages in other works by Mozart, to work up all of these fragments into playable, practical versions. The results are laudable, and Jeurissen’s passion for the works is evident from his highly accomplished, charismatic playing.

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January 2014

These fine Dutch performances on modern instruments feature the only recording of the D major Horn Concerto, K412 complete with Mozart's riotous annotations on the manuscript.

23rd July 2013

Jeurissen, Goodman and the orchestra, complete with nicely rendered harpsichord, are perfectly in style: a genial blend of enchantment, panache and poetry. Jeurissen is very much at the centre and most points of the compass here yet with no suggestion of stifling Mozart.

Mozart: Horn Concertos

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