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  1. Identifying Classical Music
    I've still had no success in identifying this orchestral waltz (melody is either French-horn or trombone?)...someone elsewhere thought it could be Waldteufel or Strauss but those seem to be last-resort guesses... Any ideas? :confused: Note that the piece used in the original episode clip...
  2. Classical Music Discussion
    Which instruments really speak to you and move you? For me, it's the horn and the oboe - but the former especially. Your thoughts?
  3. Composer Guestbooks
    Principal French Horn player for the CSO in the 50s, Gunther put his horn down in '57/8 to pursue his dream of becoming a composer. An innovative and influential composer/arranger in his own right, he bridged classical elements with Jazz with a very original voice. He passed away today at the...
  4. Classifieds
    Iosif Arshakovich Andriasov (Ovsep Andreasian) was born in Moscow, USSR, to an Armenian family in 1933. He was a classical composer and philosopher. Dmitry Shostakovich said of him: "When the entire world lost a sense of harmony, composer Iosif Andriasov has not only not lost this sense, but...
  5. Classical Music Discussion Polls
    I was disappointed the other thread wasn't about instrumental trios, so I'm making this one. A trio of horn trios. (No disrespect intended toward Pyotr, in whose poll I voted.)
  6. Solved Cases (archive)
    I found some fantastic atonal horn pieces on some site I've lost, somewhere on podkicker. I think they would qualify as Classical rather than jazz or new age. Very disciplined and coherently unified works. Anyway, I'm desperate to find them again to use them in a local production of The Tempest...
  7. Classical Music Discussion
    Mozart's Horn Concertos, along with his earlier Symphonies and Violin Sonatas, Church Sonatas and the two Piano Quartets, are among his most underrated compositions, if not the most underrated. What is your favorite recording of the concertos and how you will rank them from favorite to least...
  8. News, Concerts and Events
    AUDIMozart Competition 2010 FIFTH INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION for the performance of the Mozart's concertos for FLUTE, OBOE, CLARINET, BASSOON, HORN and ORCHESTRA. Rovereto (TN - Italy), May 21 - June 5 2010 Final round with the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento...
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