Gliere horn concerto program notes

It had its first performance on the 15th october 1943 at the wigmore hall with brain playing and peter pears singing. The work that has come to us as the fourth horn concerto, labelled k. Many scholars also find many similarities between glieres horn concerto and tchaikovskys violin concerto. Greene butler university follow this and additional works at. This new album is a collection of all the works mozart wrote for his lifelong friend, the horn player joseph leutgeb 17321811, one of the foremost players of his day. Leopold mozart, concerto in d for french horn and orchestra 9. May 02, 2019 the serenade for tenor, horn and strings by benjamin britten is one of the many works written for the great horn player of the twentieth century, dennis brain. Allegro molto vivace this program runs approximately 1 hour, 45 minutes.

Reinhold gliere was 63 when he decided to write his first concerto for harp in 1938. It contains all the elements of a standard concerto. It is very florid and romantic its unlikely model is tchaikovskys violin concerto, to which it comes nearest in the finale which is a lively russian dance. Doctoral essay supervised by professor deborah fleisher. Near the end of the long first allegro movement, mr. In his third recording for albany records, the spectacular horn player, eric ruske, presents a program of concertos for french horn written by the romantic composers reinhold gliere, franz strauss and richard strauss. Ruske, eric stern, michael plays romantic horn concerti. Kater 2000 asserted that hindemith valued the concept of gebrachmusik, or music with function. Nearly unexplored are glieres educational compositions, his chamber works, piano. The concerto is one of the mostdemanding solo works for the horn, using the highest and lowest notes in the instruments register, often in quick succession. Reinhold glieres concerto for harp and orchestra in eflat december 2012 major op. Trombone, tuba, horn in f, brass trio advanced digital download composed by reinhold moritzovich gliere 18741956.

The second horn concerto, written in 1942, belongs to this final, reflective period. Written for valeri polekh, the solo horn player at the bolshoi, his concerto in b flat is unprecedented in both length and difficulty. Reinhold gliere was a modest, reserved, and refined person. According to ruske, the romantic era of musical composition ushered in a golden period for the horn as a solo instrument. Program notes by scott macclelland harp concerto in e flat major, op 74 in 1938 for the harpist ksenia erdeli 18781971, whom he consulted so frequently on the effectiveness of his harp writing that he eventually offered to name her as joint composer of the workan honour she declined. Gliere was well known as a composer having received the peoples artist of the ussr award in that same year.

The score was published by boosey and hawkes of london in 1950. The gliere harp concerto has always been a favorite among harp enthusiasts. Mar 11, 2015 this is a live and unedited performance by andrew mcafee of the gliere horn concerto arr. Barry tuckwell, an australian virtuoso of the french horn whose mastery over his fiendishly difficult instrument brought him international renown as the preeminent hornist of his era, died jan.

It could easily have been written in the latter part of the nineteenth. Fiftyeight years separate the first performances of his two horn concertos, but they are not enormously different in their musical idiom. The concerto is written in a conservative style that looks back to the musical world of his teenage years as represented by his first horn concerto, which was completed in 1883. Mar 23, 2001 program notes concerto for horn and orchestra.

Aaron grad has been the exclusive program annotator for the orpheus chamber orchestra since 2005. It was taken up and popularised by the british horn player dennis. Glieres horn concerto was his last completed orchestral work. In these five works mozart captures the public persona of an instrument most readily associated with all things hunting. Program notes by scott macclelland 1 in eflat major, concerto for orchestra and french horn by german composer richard strauss, first performed in meiningen, germany, on march 4, 1885. Eb major sounding pitch bb major french horn in f view more eb major music for french horn. Even so, those years did see the completion of the piano sonata no.

He was appointed as principal horn of the bolshoi theater orchestra in 1938, a position he held for 35 years. A guide to solo horn music by arthur diaz charles snead. Polekh made numerous other recordings besides the gliere concerto, and edited a performance edition of the mozart concertos. Musicweb purchase button reinhold gliere 18751956 cello concerto in d minor op. Paul hindemith, concerto for horn and orchestra 1949 8. Recorded 1994 march 1516 studio 7, new broadcasting house, manchester. Like so many of glieres larger works, which often tell russian folk tales, the concerto. In addition to the sonata, hindemith produced a sonata for the also horn in 1943, horn concerto in 1949, and a sonata for four horns in 1952. A tender and friendly look in expressive brown eyes, lips ready for a smile.

The thematic material is not shared as much in this concerto as other concerto. Radovan vlatkovic horn play with a proonline music. The score callsfor pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets, horns and trumpets, plus timpani, strings, and horn soloist. Brooklyn symphonys russian afternoon a delight brooklyn. The serenade for tenor, horn and strings by benjamin britten is one of the many works written for the great horn player of the twentieth century, dennis brain. May 22, 2010 the first time i heard the gliere horn concerto, it was from the radio, it was already halfway into the middle of the 1st movement, my first thoughts were, this sounds late romantic, my kind of music. Part of the music commons recommended citation greene, gary a. Feb 21, 2011 glieres horn concerto, written and first performed in 1951, features lush melodic lines with undertones of slavic soul. Mozarts horn concertos are perhaps the most popular works ever written for the instrument.

Barry tuckwell, australian virtuoso of the french horn. Radovan vlatkovic born 1962 is a croatian born horn player. While we may not be able to gather right now for a traditional performance, our musicians and staff are committed to making the music play on. It is very florid and romanticits unlikely model is tchaikovskys violin concerto, to which it comes nearest in the finale which is a lively russian dance. Program notes by scott macclelland concerto for harp and orchestra in eflat major, op. Print and download in pdf or midi horn concerto, op. The first piece on the cd, the bronze horseman, is a very nice, beautiful, neoromantic work steeped in the russian music traditionalists, balakirev, rimsky. Program notes jennifer rebecca healy, horn senior honors. Scherzo presto romance for bassoon and piano edward elgar 18571934 bassoon concerto in e minor, rv 484 antonio vivaldi i. An analysis and performance guide abstract of a doctoral essay at the university of miami. The gliere is the most ambitious work here, running for nearly 23 minutes, almost a record length for a horn concerto. Program notes berkshire symphony orchestra april 21st, 2017 reinhold gliere harp concerto, 1st mov. Long at nearly 24 minutes and constructed without regard for the natural conveniences of the horn itself, it was inspired by and modeled after the barbarically difficult tchaikovsky violin concerto.

He began professional studies on the horn in 1933, and enrolled at the moscow conservatory in 1937. Sealy played a cadenza, based on the one performed by the russian horn virtuoso valery palenkh at the concertos premiere performance, that amply demonstrated. Reinhold gliere, alexander glazunov, vissarion shebalin artists. I have really enjoyed the cd thus far, and i will continue to do so. Recently, i purchased this cd to hear a recording of the gliere horn concerto, a piece i am currently working on. The first movement opens like a traditional concerto, with the orchestra establishing the key and thematic material for the work. It had its first performance on the 15th october 1943 at the wigmore. Scored for a comparatively small orchestra, the harp concerto could easily be. Shop and buy concerto in b flat major opus 91 sheet music. The guest conductor was mark cerri, an accomplished horn player and conductor who teaches at the long island conservatory, and the featured soloist was french horn virtuoso w. You may prefer to pay by sterling cheque or euro notes to avoid paypal. The lansing symphony orchestra is proud to announce the launch of our new concert series, lso at home. Concerto in b flat major opus 91 by reinhold moritzovich. Strauss follows the typical fastslowfast structure of classical concerti, with the three movements in eflat major, aflat major, and eflat major.

Before that the only horn concertoes i knew were mozarts and richard strausss, composed in the strictest of germanic traditions. Reinhold gliere, horn concerto ludwig van beethoven, symphony no. Program notes berkshire symphony orchestra april 21, 2017. The soloist and orchestra each get their turn in the spotlight. The manuscript was completed in four colours black, red, blue and green. This is a live and unedited performance by andrew mcafee of the gliere horn concerto arr.

Like so many of gliere s larger works, which often tell russian folk tales, the concerto. Horn in f iiiiii euphonium tuba string bass timpani percussion, including. This album highlights the extraordinary talent of the official harpist to h. Birth of the gliere concerto international horn society. In 1777 leutgeb moved from salzburg where he was member of the court orchestra to vienna, where he opened a cheese shop with the help of a loan from mozarts. It is a rather stern military march, but in a surprising turn of events, the entrance of the solo horn also brings a lyrical new theme. After a brief twoyear stay in berlin, he returned to. He also contributes program notes to the cleveland orchestra, new world symphony, saint paul chamber orchestra, seattle symphony, celebrity series of boston, columbia artists management, inc. Yesterday afternoons brooklyn symphony orchestra concert at st. The first concerto was written for his father to perform, and the second was written as a tribute to his fathers memory. No carelessness either in his clothes or in his manners. Apr 04, 2012 many scholars also find many similarities between gliere s horn concerto and tchaikovskys violin concerto. Reinhold gliere born in kiev, reinhold moritsovitch gliere studied violin at the moscow conservatory from 1894 1900.