| Naxos | The Alphorn is phenomenal in its size and in its very limited musical range. The instrument is one of great antiquity, a shepherd’s trumpet, made of wood, and is found in the Alps, the Carpathians, Lithuania, the Pyrenees and in Scandinavia. Traditionally a signal instrument, with considerable carrying power, it has undergone various changes in construction, and is now most familiar in the form with an upturned bell at the end of a hollowed wooden pipe some eleven or twelve feet long. Since the early nineteenth century the alphorn has also been made in different keys, to allow a certain amount of ensemble playing between performers on the instrument. In recent years Swiss composers have brought the alphorn into the concert hall. |
| Disc No: 8.555978 | |
| Price: Sek. 74 | |
| Name: Alphorn Concertos | |
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| Order |
| Composer | Opus | Music | Key | Performer |
| Mozart, Leopold | Sinfonia Pastorella for Alphorn and String Orchestra | Capella Istropolitana Jozsef Molnar, alphorn | ||
| Farkas, Ferenc | Concertino Rustico for Alphorn and String Orchestra | |||
| Daetwyler, Jean | Concerto for Alphorn and Orchestra | |||
| Daetwyler, Jean | Dialogue avec la nature for Alphorn, Piccolo and Orchestra | Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - Miroslav Kral Jozsef Molnar, alphorn |