Alun Hoddinott - Horn Concerto *
Humphrey Searle - Aubade for Horn and Strings **
Don Banks - Horn Concerto **
Nicholas Maw - Sonata for Strings and 2 Horns ***

* ** Barry Tuckwell, horn
* Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Davis, conductor
** New Philharmonia Orchestra, Norman Del Mar, conductor
*** Alan Civil & Ian Harper, horns
*** English Chamber Orchestra, Norman Del Mar, conductor

Label: Lyrita
Copyright: 2008 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England
Catalogue number: SRCD.335
UPC/EAN: 5020926033529
Format: CD
Analogue / Digital recording: ADD
Number of discs: 1
Total playing time: 60.00
Price: Ł 14.99 (+ postage & packing)

Tracks 1 - 3: Recorded at Kingsway Hall, March 1973, Producer: James Walker, Engineer: Colin Moorfoot
Tracks 4 - 6: No recording information available

Hoddinott’s idiomatic use of the horn in his Aubade and Scherzo for horn and strings (1965) and Third Symphony (1968) suggests a natural affinity with the instrument, confirmed by his Horn Concerto, Op.65 (1969). Commissioned by the Llandaff Festival and first performed by Ifor James with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Edouard van Remoortel on 3 June 1969, it exploits the lyrical and expressive facets of the solo instrument’s character ...

	Horn Concerto Op.65 (1969)	Alun Hoddinott (1929 - 2008)	13.05
1	I Romanza		4.58
2	II Scherzo		3.24
3	III Cadenza – Adagio		4.51
4	Aubade for Horn and Strings Op.28 (1955)	Humphrey Searle (1915 - 1982)	7.07
5	Horn Concerto (1965)	Don Banks (1923 - 1980)	20.16
6	Sonata for Strings and 2 Horns (1967)	Nicholas Maw (b. 1935)	22.04