French horn players usually sit in the back of the orchestra. The bells of their instruments pointing backwards, their sound goes the wrong direction, towards the back of the stage. There's not much glory in that. But in today's show, the horn section of the German Symphony Orchestra moves to the front of the orchestra to perform Robert Schumann's Concert Piece for Four Horns in Berlin.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Ottorino Respighi: One movement from "Roman Festivals"
The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields with conductor Sir Neville Marriner
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 18 in E-flat, Op. 31, No. 3
Pianist Ingrid Fliter
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ottorino Respighi: "Ancient Airs and Dances," Suite No. 3
The Juilliard Chamber Orchestra
The Peter Jay Sharp Theater, New York City
Joe Rixner: "Blauer Himmel"
Prima Carezza
International Salon Music Festival, Interlaken, Switzerland
Arthur Benjamin: "Jamaican Rhumba"
I Salonisti
International Salon Music Festival, Interlaken, Switzerland
Hour 2
Philip Glass: "The Secret Agent"
La Pieta with conductor and violinist Angele Dubeau
Benjamin Britten: Alla Marcia
The Sebastian String Quartet
Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, Zagreb, Croatia
Traditional (Arranged by Michael Neaum): "The Water of Tyne"
The San Francisco Girls Chorus with conductor Susan McMane
Calvary Presbyterian Church, San Francisco
Robert Schumann: Concert Piece for Four Horns in F
The German Symphony Orchestra with conductor Kent Nagano
Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
Robert Schumann: Fantasy in C, Op. 131
Violinist Christian Tetzlaff with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Paavo Jarvi
Grand Hall, Frankfurt, Germany
Joe Hisaishi: Theme from "Princess Mononoke"
La Pieta with conductor and violinist Angele Dubeau
Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, Georgia
Traditional (Arranged by Angele Dubeau): "Reel de Rimouski"
La Pieta with conductor and violinist Angele Dubeau
Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, Georgia
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