A few days ago I posted to the Yahoo! horn list about recordings by Anton Horner other than the justly-celebrated one of the horn call from Act II of Siegfried.
Here is a recording of Le cor by Flegier, sung by Marcel Journet, on which Anton Horner and Joseph Horner *may* be the horn players (or not--see below): http://www.ampexguy.com/kiri/c19116-4.19170125.74508.le.cor.mp3 **You may have to copy and paste the URL into your browser for it to work.** The entry for this record in the Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings at http://victor.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/700004174/C-19116-Le_cor notes that according to the Victor ledgers, the horn parts were played by cornets on take 4 (i.e., the issued take, the one you can hear by following the link above). This is clearly and audibly wrong, but whether the Horner brothers made the trip across the river from Philadelphia to Camden, N.J., two days after takes 1-3 is a matter for speculation. Whoever they may be, they are certainly both extremely distinguished horn players. Thanks to my friend William Shaman for transferring this disc from the copy in his collection. I don't have a copy. Again, for those of you who aren't sure what your teachers mean when they say to sing on your horns, this is what they want you to do. Also, if you read about the lost French style of singing and wonder what it was like, here is an example. Howard Sanner [email protected] "Pessimists are surprised as often as optimists, but always pleasantly"--The Giant Rat of Sumatra, by Richard L. Boyer, p. 61. _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
