Hello
My copy is an authorised photocopy from Boosey & Hawkes' archive. I think it's still possible to get it this way from B&H.
There is a good recording of the Schoeck Concerto with Bruno Schneider, the Swiss horn player. (Successor to Ifor James as Professor of horn in Freiburg, Germany.)
I'm afraid I can't remember which orchestra, but to aid searching, the other piece on the CD is the Schoeck violin concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and a soloist whose name I have forgotten.
The violin concerto sounds like it has interesting horn parts.
There is also, I believe a recording with Hermann Baumann where he uses a lot less rubato than I had to in order to get through just the first movement of this very strenuous piece once. There are not many opportunities to get the mouthpiece away from your chops. On this recording the second movement also follows the first with a barely perceptible break, a thing which an ordinary mortal horn player in a live performance probably wouldn't want to do.
The last movement demands great technical facility.
I think it's a nice piece and should be performed more often. Has anyone ever heard it performed live in a public concert?
best Wishes,
Benno
(Playing 3rd in The Brahms Academic Overture tonight, what a lovely part! And many thanks to the Horn Excerpts website for helping with the music. The Schumann Konzertstück is also on the program so there should be a few horn players in the audience, probably)
On Friday, September 10, 2004, at 04:08 AM, Don & Judy Birchett wrote:
My daughter, a senior at Northern Arizona University, is planning to work up Othmar Schoeck's Concerto for Horn, Op. 65. Does anyone have a spare copy to sell?
I see versions by Alfred and by Boosey and Hawkes. Any preferences?
Any performance suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Don Birchett
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