No amount of writing would do justice to the art of horn. Horn has to be played and listened to. Go to concerts, listen to recordings.
The following playlist will get you started, however it’s by no means exhaustive. Many excellent (especially older) recordings are not available on streaming platforms.
You can also check out services that specialize in classical music, like Idagio.
- With the advent of youtube we learned to consume content of poor quality.
- While there are a lot of gems that on youtube
- However, I often hear students doing their “research” on pieces while listening to recordings that are far from excellent
- Listen to excellence, and become excellent
Examples of excellence
- Hermann Baumann
- Peter Damm
- Dennis Brain
- Radovan Vlatkovic
- Marie-Luise Neunecker
- Radek Baborak
- Vitaly Buyanovsky
- Sarah Willis
- Stephan Dohr
- Alec Frank-Gemmill
- and many more…
Ensembles
- Vienna Horns
- German Horn Sound
- London Horn Sound
- American Horn Quartet
- and many more…