This release date
marks the completion of the recording of all of Dauprat's
horn ensemble music by Richard Burdick. With the 2nd volume
of Horn Duets opus 13 on CD 18, the Grand Sextets, opus
10 and the Grand Trios opus 4 on CD19 and a special release
of the Grand Trio opus 26 on a disk for those who buy both
CD18 & 19! |
Already released are CD16; the Duets opus 14, and CD14; Quartets, opus 8; which is all of the published music for horn ensemble of Dauprat.
Why is this important? Louis-François Dauprat was the horn professor at the Paris conservatory in Beethoven's time. He was singly responsible for stalling the development of the Valve horn in France, by as much as 40 years! His compositions are fine early romantic works highly influenced by his teacher Anton Reicha. His writing for natural horn is unbelievably chromatic with keys remote from what would be expected in what normally would be a very limited instrument.
His works are outstanding! His Grand sextets are his most popular works partialy due to his use of the High C horn, which resluts in high D for the modern horn or concert G's above the treble clef staff!
Performance of his works could only be done by a virtuoso! Great mastery of the natural horn is required to play these works; hear one of today’s few natural horn artist. in this amazing recording.
Grand Sextets for horns in different keys, opus 10 by Dauprat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Grand Trios, opus 4 #3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Total time 75:55 |
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Dauprat’s intimate knowledge
of hand horn techniques makes this opus a compositional tour de
force. Not only does he use all twelve notes of the chromatic scale
in nearly every piece, he also pioneers the use of key signatures
of up to four sharps and four flats for an instrument which was
generally restricted to C major. His stated purpose in writing
these duos was Richard plays a horn made by Marcel-Auguste Raoux in the 1840s, modified by Lowell Greer. |
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Tracks:
1) Grand Sextet for natural horns in different keys, Op. 10: 1. Introduction
2) Grand Sextet for natural horns in different keys, Op. 10: 2. Minuetto
3) Grand Sextet for natural horns in different keys, Op. 10: 3. Andante
4) Grand Sextet for natural horns in different keys, Op. 10: 4. Minuetto
5) Grand Sextet for natural horns in different keys, Op. 10: 5. Adagio
6) Grand Sextet for natural horns in different keys, Op. 10: 6. Allegro moderato
7) Grand Trio for natural horns, Op. 4 No. 1: 1. Allegro moderato
8) Grand Trio for natural horns, Op. 4 No. 1: 2. Adagio ma non troppo
9) Grand Trio for natural horns, Op. 4 No. 1: 3. Minuetto
10) Grand Trio for natural horns, Op. 4 No. 1: 4. Rondeau
11) Grand Trio for natural horns, Op. 4 No. 2: 1. Allegro altiermente
12) Grand Trio for natural horns, Op. 4 No. 2: 2. Canon - andante
13) Grand Trio for natural horns, Op. 4 No. 2: 3. Minuetto - allegro
14) Grand Trio for natural horns, Op. 4 No. 2: 4. Agitato non troppo
15) Grand Trio for natural horns, Op. 4 No. 3: 1. Introduction - lento, allegretto
16) Grand Trio for natural horns, Op. 4 No. 3: 2. Romanza
17) Grand Trio for natural horns, Op. 4 No. 3: 3. Minuetto
18) Grand Trio for natural horns, Op. 4 No. 3: 4. Finale - Allegro non troppo
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