Franz Schubert - Robert Schumann - Johannes Brahms - Karl Pilss

Heartfelt - Romantic Works for Horn

Rob van de Laar

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: SACD
Barcode: 0608917274523

Catalog number: CC 72745
Releasedate: 13-01-17

- a disc devoted to the great works of the German Romanticism for French Horn

- Rob van de Laar is an extremely talented young musician, Principal Horn of the Mozarteum Salzburg

- winner of the Nederlandse Muziekprijs 2017 [Dutch Music Prize 2017]

- besides the great names of Schubert, Schumann and Brahms, we have a bonus by late-Romantic composer and pedagogue Karl Pilss

Rob van de Laar, 29 years old, is the Principal Horn of the Mozarteum Salzburg. This being his first solo album, he chose the great music of the German Romanticism for horn. Brahms' Trio was composed in 1865, during a peaceful summer at Clara Schumann's house in the Black Forest. The Adagio and Allegro by Schumann was composed in 1849 and is one of a series of miniatures for different solo instruments and piano written by Schumann in Dresden in 1849. Schumann was among the first to explore the expanded possibilities offered by the new valve horn. Schubert wrote his son gAuf dem Strom in 1828, the final year of his short life, to a text by Ludwig Rellstab. It was written for a concert at the Vienna Musikverein, marking the first anniversary of the death of Ludwig van Beethoven on March, 26. Schubert, who was a great admirer of Beethoven, saw his opportunity to compose a special song as an ode to the master. He added a dazzling horn part here. The composer Karl Pilss is perh

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