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Mozart: The Four Horn Concerti. Albert Linder, horn; Hans Swarowsky, Vienna State Opera Orchestra. Amadeus AMD 7012.(Review)
Mozart: The Four Horn Concerti. Albert Linder, horn; Hans Swarowsky, Vienna State Opera Orchestra. Amadeus AMD 7012.
Can we really have too many recordings of Mozart's Four Horn Concerti? Probably not, at least not when they are played so well as here. I must admit I fell in love with these sweet, leisurely renditions from Albert Linder, recorded in 1961 with the Vienna State Opera Orchestra. Of course, nothing has yet to top Dennis Brain's performances from a little more than half a dozen years earlier, but Brain is in monaural, and I can understand people today wanting only stereo. This one is as good as any.
The agenda begins with No. 3, the most poetically lyrical of the lot. It is also the most profound and, in its way, perhaps the most mature. Certainly, it is the most complex. I suppose it was chosen to lead off the group because it demonstrates Linder's relaxed, conservative style better than the others. Even the closing Allegro, normally a robust hunting motif, sounds easygoing in Linder's hands. No. 4 follows, also in the restful style of an earlier age. These interpretations are in marked contrast to many more modern ones ...
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