Mozart and his friend Joseph Leutgeb spent a lot of time trying to one-up each other. And it's a good thing they did, because it caused Mozart to write some amazing music for horn. Sergei Nakariakov ...

Listen to the full concert featuring Mozart's Horn Concerto No 4, Stravinsky's Petrushka, and an early work by Michael Tippett.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Barry Tuckwell was one of the world's greatest players of the French horn. He made the notoriously ...

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and their principal horn player, Tim Thorpe as soloist, perform the 3rd movement of Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 4, as heard in the Ten Pieces film.

The music Mozart wrote for his horn-playing friend Joseph Leutgeb is still some of the finest music ever written for horn. We feature some of the highlights: the lyrical Horn Quintet, a reconstruction ...

A video of actor Ewan McGregor performing Mozart’s Horn Concerto No.4 live on Scottish TV when he was a teenager proves he has always had plenty of strings to his bow (or should we say… valves to his ...

We all know Wolfgang was a musical genius and a bit of a joker - and here’s a great example of what he got up to in one of his most famous manuscripts. Joseph Leutgeb was one of the finest horn ...

I was lucky enough to be offered a contract with the record label BIS 10 years ago on the understanding that I would definitely record Mozart’s horn concertos, among other things. It has taken me this ...

The concertos for solo horn and orchestra by Mozart fall into this latter category, although not all are as familiar to audiences as (the wrongly numbered) No 4 (K495) of Flanders and Swann "An Ill ...

The exceptional musicians of the Piccadilly Sinfonietta will perform three masterpieces by Mozart in the beautiful candlelit setting of St Mary Le Strand, London. A hugely appealing programme designed ...

Mozart’s fondness for the horn and his love of a good laugh were very much in evidence on Thursday at Jack Singer Concert Hall. The fourth orchestral concert in the Calgary Philharmonic’s continuing ...