If you thought period performances were getting more conventional, think again. Pip Eastop plays Mozart’s four horn concertos on a modern copy of an 1830 natural horn with an astonishing variety of ...

I was lucky enough to be offered a contract with the record label BIS 10 years ago on the understanding that I would definitely record Mozart’s horn concertos, among other things. It has taken me this ...

Mozart's Horn Concertos are not only at the heart of his pieces, they're at the heart of his Blessed are the cheese-makers, for they shall have Mozart horn concertos. At least, if your name was ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was an Austrian composer and performer who could play and write music from the age of four! A concerto is a piece for a solo instrumentalist and orchestra. A concerto shows off ...

Manchester Camerata continues their Mozart, Made in Manchester series! This time, tackling the infamous Horn Concertos. These playful concertos capture the close and jokey, yet unlikely friendship of ...

The concertos for solo horn and orchestra by Mozart fall into this latter category, although not all are as familiar to audiences as (the wrongly numbered) No 4 (K495) of Flanders and Swann "An Ill ...

One of the many cool things about the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Mozart Festival, which runs through Feb. 5, is the opportunity it offers orchestra members to shine in the solo spotlight. So often ...

In this week's Gramophone Podcast, the horn player Alec Frank-Gemmill joins Editor Martin Cullingford to talk about his beautiful new recording of Mozart's horn concertos, released today on the BIS ...

Taking advantage of the new expressive possibilities opened up by improvements in the design of the clarinet, Mozart created a concerto of exquisite beauty — one of the last works he would ever write.

Of Mozart’s 27 piano concertos, the composer’s Concerto No. 21 probably ranks as the most popular. Its familiarity has a lot to do with the film score for the 1967 “Elvira Madigan,” which made ...

The first recordings of Mozart's horn concertos using the kind of instrument the composer would have been familiar with appeared in the early 1970s. The inescapable contrast between the open and ...