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Howard Will - horn — Horn Monologues Release date : Mar. 06, 2020
Label : Affetto Records
Tracklist:
- Charles Koechlin: Monodie, Opus 218 bis
- David Amram: Blues and Variations for Monk
- Alice Gomez: La Calavera
- Lev Kogan: Kaddish
- Lydia Lowery Busler: Appalachia
- Georges Barboteu: From Five Poetic Pieces/ Cinq Pieces Poetiques:
- I. Andante cantabile
- II. Mouvement trés libre
- IV. Allegro vivo
- Elizabeth Raum: Idiom
- Zsolt Nagy: Happy Blues
- Elliott Carter: Retracing II
- Ástor Piazzolla: Tango Etude No. 4, transcr. for Solo Horn
- Laura Kaminsky: Blast
- Phillip Ramey: No. 3 from Three Preludes
- Stoyan Karaivanov: Pastorale
- Pascal Proust: Vagabundo
- Erika Raum: The Confessions of St. Augustine, A Tone Poem for Solo Horn
- Dante Yenque: Tonada y Joropo
- Traditional Bulgarian: Polegnala e Todora & Gankino Horo, arr. for Solo Horn
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A longtime member of two of the world’s most renowned orchestras – The New York Philharmonic and The Philadelphia Orchestra, hornist Howard Wall also performs and records with the All-Star Orchestra, and is an avid chamber music proponent. Among the 19 tracks in his solo album “Horn Monologues”, 10 are world-premiere recordings. This is a kaleidoscopic collection of eclectic styles and genres ranging from Charles Koechlin’s refined impressionism and Elliott Carter’s sophisticated modernism, to Phillip Ramey’s Bartokian reflections, Erika Raum’s virtuosic tone poem, Astor Piazzolla’s melancholic tango mood, David Amram’s blues dedicated to Thelonious Monk, the unabashedly jazzy tunes of Zsolt Nagy, the poetic inspirations of Georges Barboteu, the otherworldly mysticism of Alice Gomez, the profound emotion of Lev Kogan’s Kaddish prayer, the stunning beauty and unique rhythms of Bulgarian folk music and Venezuelan joropo