Instrument: French horn

Felix Klieser is quietly remarkable as he plays Strauss' First Horn Concerto with the RSNO, but why did so many people walk out during Bruckner's Eighth Symphony?

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Minimalism with a beating heart: Julius Eastman's Femenine

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Kurt Gottschalk, 04 Feb

The spirit of the St Luke's Chamber Ensemble makes for a successful performance of Julius Eastman's 1974 composition Femenine.

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A trio of Mozart quintets from Ensemble 360

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Phil Parker, 15 Jan

Ensemble 360’s opening concert of their Sheffield spring season reveals the rich variety present in three very different Mozart quintets.

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Salonen leads an Austrian feast at the Philadelphia Orchestra

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Cameron Kelsall, 18 Oct

A delightful Mozart appetizer leads to a satisfying account of Bruckner's Fourth Symphony.

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New season, new horizons: Salonen opens the Elbphilharmonie

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Mengguang Huang, 03 Sep

Salonen and the Orchestre de Paris opened the Elbphilharmonie season with a vivid journey from Strauss’s dramatic energy, through a reflective new Horn Concerto, to Sibelius’s luminous, precise grandeur.

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Energetic Mozart and Beethoven from Manchester Camerata

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Leighton Jones, 23 May

Continuing with their ‘Made in Manchester’ series of Mozart concertos in Stoller Hall, Manchester Camerata turn to the horn concertos with soloist Martin Owen.

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Performers

Baborák, Radek Bain, Andrew Blackwood, Carla Cambreling, Edouard Chapman, Christine Clevenger, Jesse Clifford, Genevieve Dohr, Stefan Duffin, Carsten Edmundson, Alexander Ember, Dániel Ennouhi, Sarah Ernesaks, Paula Federle, Annemarie Ferriol de Ciurana, Anna Fleury, Nicolas Ford, Lisa Frank-Gemmill, Alec Freitas, Felipe Gira, Jonas Goldscheider, Ben Guerrier, David Hartnell-Booth, Benjamin Harvey, Euan Hulme, Benjamin Jones, Dewi Jorge, Pedro Joulain, Herve Kleinbart, Amanda Klinkhammer, Ingo Kreuzhuber, Andreas Kühner, Martin Künkele, Bernd Liu, Pin-Chun Martins, Thiago Meier, Apollonia Mentzen, Anne Noetzel, Marc Page, Neil Parkes, Christopher Paw, Man-hing Hermann Pennington, Sarah Piñeira, Matias Plücker, Jens Puputti, Ilkka Rönnebeck, Julius Shilkloper, Arkady Siebert, Jan-Niklas Silva {French horn}, Pedro Stephan, Frank Unknown Urso, Emanuele Giovanni Verspaandonk, Fons Wahlgren, Johan Watkins, Alexei Watkins, Richard Williams, Sarah Willis, Sarah Woolley, Katy Yoo, Haeree de Barsony, Benoît de Fonseka, Felix Hetzel