Mozart: Stolen Beauties: Anneke Scott (natural & piston horn) with Ironwood at St George's Hanover Square, London on Tuesday 21st July 2015

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Mozart: Stolen Beauties

Anneke Scott (natural & piston horn) with Ironwood

Add to my Calendar 21-07-2015 19:30 21-07-2015 21:30 36 Mozart: Stolen Beauties Mozart left to horn players a lasting legacy of iconic works. Like double bass players, constantly being asked if they ‘had wished they played the flute’ – strangers whistle the opening bars of the famous Rondo of KV 495 to horn players innocently wishing to go about their business. Either that, or they sing ‘I found my horn, gorn,’ in the immortal words of Michael Flanders.Celebrating the launch of their latest disc, Mozart: Stolen Beauties (ABC Classics), Anneke Scott (natural and piston horns) and leading Australian period instrument ensemble, Ironwood take as their central point one of Mozart’s most memorable works for horn – the Quintet in E-flat major, KV 407. Rather than choosing the more common path of combining this work with a number of other late 18th- and early 19th-century works for horn and strings, selected from the many unfairly neglected and long forgotten composers of the time, they illustrate the various ways in which Mozart’s works have been ‘appropriated’ for the horn, or, in one case how Mozart ‘appropriated’ a work for himself. The repertoire offers us the opportunity to explore the lives of three star horn players from the 18th and 19th centuries – Joseph Leitgeb, Giovanni Punto and Giovanni Puzzi, as well the latter’s pupil, Barham Livius, an amateur horn player and London entrepreneur. During this period we also witness some of the most masterful writing for the Classical natural horn (also known as the hand horn) and start to see the early use of valves.Anneke Scott (natural and piston horns) with IronwoodAlice Evans & Rachael Beesley - violinsNicole Forsyth & Jane Rogers - violaDaniel Yeadon - celloand Neal Peres da Costa - fortepiano St George's Hanover Square, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St George's Hanover Square
Mill Street
Mayfair
London
W1S 1FX
England

Tuesday 21st July 2015
7:30 PM

Programme

Anonymous – Air varié pour corno (sur "La ci darem il mano").
Michael Haydn – Romance in A-flat major for horn and string quartet.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Concertante for the pianoforte, horn, viola and violoncello (arr. Kegelstatt Trio, K.498)
~ Interval ~
Giovanni Punto – Trois duos in E-Flat Major, Op. A, Deuxième duo.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Horn Quintet in E-flat major, K.407/386c

Performers

Anneke Scott – Horn

Ironwood

Programme Note

Mozart left to horn players a lasting legacy of iconic works. Like double bass players, constantly being asked if they ‘had wished they played the flute’ – strangers whistle the opening bars of the famous Rondo of KV 495 to horn players innocently wishing to go about their business. Either that, or they sing ‘I found my horn, gorn,’ in the immortal words of Michael Flanders.

Celebrating the launch of their latest disc, Mozart: Stolen Beauties (ABC Classics), Anneke Scott (natural and piston horns) and leading Australian period instrument ensemble, Ironwood take as their central point one of Mozart’s most memorable works for horn – the Quintet in E-flat major, KV 407. Rather than choosing the more common path of combining this work with a number of other late 18th- and early 19th-century works for horn and strings, selected from the many unfairly neglected and long forgotten composers of the time, they illustrate the various ways in which Mozart’s works have been ‘appropriated’ for the horn, or, in one case how Mozart ‘appropriated’ a work for himself. The repertoire offers us the opportunity to explore the lives of three star horn players from the 18th and 19th centuries – Joseph Leitgeb, Giovanni Punto and Giovanni Puzzi, as well the latter’s pupil, Barham Livius, an amateur horn player and London entrepreneur. During this period we also witness some of the most masterful writing for the Classical natural horn (also known as the hand horn) and start to see the early use of valves.

Anneke Scott (natural and piston horns)
with Ironwood
Alice Evans & Rachael Beesley - violins
Nicole Forsyth & Jane Rogers - viola
Daniel Yeadon - cello
and Neal Peres da Costa - fortepiano

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