Horn Concerto No 2 in E flat major, K417 (Mozart)
from Mozart: Horn Concertos (CDA68097)
1 Allegro [8'19]
2 Andante [2'51]
3 Rondo: Allegro [3'49]
6 minutes 40 seconds 3 tracks
‘Pip Eastop plays a natural horn akin to the type available to the virtuoso for whom Mozart wrote the four concertos, Joseph Leutgeb. Mozart clearly did not feel in any way hidebound by the horn’s lim ...
‘Not least, where most players of the natural horn seek to minimise the difference in tone of those pitches that can only be got out of the instrument by hand-stopping and tricks of breathing, Pip Eas ...
‘An extraordinary performance on the natural horn … Pip Eastop gives these pieces an extraordinary immediacy and authenticity. His superb technical ability and inventiveness are put to brilliant ...