Month: May 2015

György Ligeti – Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano (1982)

“Hommage à Brahms”   It would be difficult to name a post-1950 work for horn in chamber music that adds more to the repertoire than the Horn Trio by György Ligeti. Not only does it redress the paucity of works featuring the horn by established contemporary composers. It is also a pivotal work in Ligeti’s […]

Introduction

At the behest of Dave Weiner I will soon be starting a series of reviews in this space of contemporary and twentieth century masterworks for horn in chamber music. The reviews will be more in the nature of recommendations of music that I have performed or would like to. I hope to offer at least […]