Beyond Beethoven: Works for Natural Horn and Fortepiano

Featuring

Anneke Scott
Steven Devine
Ferdinand Ries
Friedrich Eugen Thurner
Friedrich Starke
Hendrik Coenraad Steup

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Recording & Production

The recording features a Lucien Joseph Raoux cor solo from around 1810 and a Johann Peter Fritz Viennese fortepiano from 1815, part of the Richard Burne collection.

Performer Biography

Anneke Scott, the natural horn player, is a leading exponent of historical horn playing and principal horn for several internationally renowned period instrument ensembles, including Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.

Compositional Technique

The composers on this album, peers of Beethoven, exploited the natural horn's versatility, dispelling modern myths about its 'limited options'.

Album & Artwork

The album title "Beyond Beethoven" refers to the fact that while Beethoven's Horn Sonata is well-known, many other works for piano and horn from the same period have been neglected.

Performer Biography

Steven Devine, the fortepiano player, is a busy music director and keyboard player, whose solo recordings, including Bach's Goldberg Variations, have received critical acclaim.

Instruments

A papier-mâché horn mute, based on 19th-century descriptions, was specially made for this recording, as few originals survive.

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