New Horn trio recording
Francesca Dego joins renowned horn player Martin Owen and pianist Alessandro Taverna in this varied and compelling programme after performing it extensively over the last 7 years. Brahms’s Horn Trio was the first major work for this instrumentation, and remains one of the finest in the repertoire. The horn is often seen as symbolic of the forest – an important entity in German culture – and Brahms commented that his inspiration for the piece came to him whilst out walking though woodland. Ligeti’s Hommage à Brahms was very much inspired by Brahms’s Trio, although influences of Bartók and Hungarian folk music also play their part.
Gramophone magazine praised the album underlining “Brahms/Ligeti pairing is hardly new on record but, even without the substantial added attractions of Mozart and Schumann, this version sweeps the board.”
