Composer: Christoph Förster, Carl Heinrich Graun, Johann Joachim Quantz
Performer: Fréderick Franssen
Orchestra: Members of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Challenge
Catalogue: CC72904
Release: 2022
Size: 545 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Förster: Horn Concerto in E-Flat Major
01. I. Allegro / con discretione
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Allegro
Graun: Concerto in E Major
04. I. Largo
05. II. Allegro
06. III. Siciliano
07. IV. Allegro
Graun: Trio Sonata in D Major
08. I. Allegretto
09. II. Andante
10. III. Allegro
11. I. Adagio
12. II. Allegro
13. III. Largo
14. IV. Menuet
anon.: Concerto in E-Flat Major
15. I. (Allegro)
16. II. Largo
17. III. Allegro
Quantz: Concerto in E flat major
18. I. Allegro
19. II. Siciliano, Larghetto
20. III. Allegro II
From among the enormous choice of horn repertoire available in the early stages of his study of the instrument, the interestof Fréderick Franssen was piqued by the very earliest horn music. The music from that era did and still does exert its magic on him due to the pure beauty of its clear and transparent sound world.
One of his first finds on this quest of discovery through the Baroque period was a concerto by an unknown hand, which appears on this album and comes from a very special collection – the “Wenster”. The library at the University of Lund in Sweden contains one of the largest collections of horn music from the first half of the 18th century, under the name of “Wenster”. The manuscript contains eighteen works, with virtually all of the composers having some sort of connection to the city of Dresden, and it may have been transcribed by a travelling horn player during a visit to that city. The six works on this recording are all taken from this collection.
Fréderick Franssen (1977) plays the French Horn in the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Besides the orchestra he performs as a soloist.