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

The Four Mozart Horn Concertos must surely rank among the composer's most popular works. This new recording, featuring the two Browns, Timothy and Iona, do this music proud. Classics Today writes: “The disc's several pluses include Iona Brown's excitingly propulsive accompaniments, the inclusion of an alternate finale to K. 412 completed by John Humphries as well as the Concert Rondo K. 371, and Hänssler's sonics, which are first rate.”

Barry Tuckwell has recorded the Mozart Horn Concertos several times, as soloist and soloist/conductor. The first and third of the Horn Concertos marked his recording debut and in note he has written for this CD - a stunning new remaster from original tapes, catching the spatial depth of Kingsway Hall and the mellowness yet clarity of the Minshull/Wilkinson team - he remembers how young wind players of the London Symphony Orchestra, like himself, were encouraged to take solo parts by the legendary Decca producer John Culshaw. The reissue is rounded out by the delicious Notturno for four orchestra, complete with antiphonal and echo effects, for which sessions Barry Tuckwell was also one of the members of the LSO.