Composer: David Riniker, Richard Bissill, Mason Bates, Klaus Wallendorf
Performer: Sarah Willis, Kotowa Machida, Philip Mayers, Klaus Wallendorf
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Release: 2021
Size: 432 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
David Riniker:
Velvet Valves (Six Romantic Trio Arrangements)
01. Melodia (After Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
02. Nocturne (After Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
03. Humoreske (After (Antonín Dvorák)
04. Romance (After Georges Bizet)
05. Clair de lune (After Claude Debussy)
06. L’Abeille (After François Schubert)
Richard Bissill:
07. Song of a New World
Mason Bates:
Mainframe Tropics
08. Silicon Blues
09. Marine Snow
10. Greyhound
Klaus Wallendorf:
Willisabethan Sarahnade
11. The “P” Duet
12. Gozo fan tutte
13. Xlendrian
14. Agia Galini
15. My Yorker
“The French horn is notoriously difficult to play. You can practise all you like but there is no guarantee that the note you blow into the mouthpiece is the same one which will come out of the bell once it has travelled through all the twists and turns of the tubing. However, when all goes well, the horn is glorious and I absolutely love being a horn player, even with all risks – and maybe even because of them.” (Sarah Willis)
After the enormous success of “Mozart y Mambo” which went straight to Number 1 in Germany on release in 2020, Alpha has decided to reissue one of the first albums recorded by this multi-talented and tireless ambassador of the French horn. In this re-release of the 2014 album, “Horn Discoveries”, Sarah Willis demonstrates all the rich potential of her instrument with exciting original compositions and beautiful arrangements of well-loved repertoire pieces such as Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Dvořák’s Humoresque or Debussy’s Clair de Lune.