Maltese composer Joseph Vella has the horn as bookends on a long career. One of his earliest works is the 1968 Trio Concertante for horn, violin, and piano. By contrast, his next work to receive a premiere (as of this writing) will be The True Face of God for four horns, timpani, and organ, composed […]
Month: October 2016
Leoš Janáček – Concertino (1925)
Emily Brontë once observed that cherishing “the delusion of being married for love by girls” is a folly of a man’s declining years. If so, such folly never benefitted the music world more than the infatuation of Leoš Janáček for Kamila Stösslová. Though Stösslová was in no way a girl when they met, a gulf […]