CD: Kammermusik für Horn - Trio! by Sarah Willis

CD: Kammermusik für Horn - Trio! by Sarah Willis

• AUDIO CD
• Date of release: 2009
• Playing time: 62 minutes
• Sarah Willis, Cordelia Hoefer, Kotowa Machida

Title List:

• JOHANNES BRAHMS
  • Trio for piano, violin, and horn in E-flat major, op.40 (1865)
• FRÉDÉRIC NICOLAS DUVERNOY
  • Horn Trio No. 1
• WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
  • Trio for piano, violin, and horn in E-flat major, K. 386c

"The assessment that Brahms's Horn Trio, opus 40, is the principal work in this production is not meant to diminish the dedication with which the three protagonists approached the remaining two pieces.

Whether the transformation of Mozart's Quintet K. 407 into a trio is permissible, enriching, or dispensable is for the inclined listener to decide. In Mozart's time, due to the lack of other possibilities of duplication, the works were edited for all they were worth. From a planned complete recording of all his horn concertos in the version as piano trios we want to advise - probably in accordance with the recommendations of the Salzburg Mozarteum - as urgently as heartily.

Also the life coordinates of Frédéric Duvernoy (* 16 October 1765 in Montbéliard; + 19 July 1838 in Paris) can be read on the Internet. From the horn player's point of view, he is one of the indispensable minor masters whose countless compositions fill out the repertoire that the horn player, forced to practice daily, likes to fall back on for the sake of greater variety. It remains to be seen whether, for the sake of Frédéric Duvernoy and his oeuvre, summer festival weeks should be organized in Montbéliard sur Lizaine (after all, also the home of Wolf Christoph Zorn von Plobsheim). If so, our ladies' trio immortalized here would certainly be one of the first personnel recommendations in the selection of the artist guard."

Klaus Wallendorf; from the booklet to Trio!