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Wagner – Siegfried (long call)

Excerpt 1 – Moderato
Act 2, Scene 2

Horn 1 in F
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Audio Files

Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan (Gerd Seifert, horn)

Sadler's Wells Orchestra, Reginald Goodall (Barry Tuckwell, horn)

Vienna Philharmonic, Sir Georg Solti (Roland Berger, horn)

Wagner – Prelude to Das Rheingold

Excerpt 1 – In moto tranquillo, sereno
ms. 1-81

Horn 8 in E-flat
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Audio files

Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan

English National Opera Company Orchestra, Reginald Goodall

Vienna Philharmonic, Sir Georg Solti

Wagner – Götterdämmerung (short call)

Excerpt 1 – Act 1: Siegfried's Rhine Journey, Vivace

Horn 1 in F
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Audio files

Bayreuth Orchestra, Hans Knappertsbusch

Berlin Philharmonic, Lorin Maazel

Vienna Philharmonic, Sir Georg Solti

Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5, op. 64

Excerpt 1 – II. Andante cantibile, con alcuna licenza
dotted quarter = 54
ms. 9-28 (7 before A – 8 after A)

Horn 1 in F
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Audio Files

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti (Dale Clevenger, horn)

Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, George Szell (Myron Bloom, horn)

Leopold Stokowski and his Orchestra (James Chambers, horn)

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Andreas Delfs (live recording--William Barnewitz, horn)

Morton Gould Orchestra, Morton Gould (John Barrows, horn)

New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein (Philip Myers, horn)

Philadelphia Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach (Jeffrey Lang, horn)

Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy

Vienna Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan

Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 4, Op. 36

Excerpt 1

Excerpt 1 – I. Andante sostenuto
ms. 1-20 (beginning – 6 after A)

Horn 1 — 2

Horn 1 in F
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Horn 2 in F
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Audio Files

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti

Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink

New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg

Stravinsky – Firebird Suite (1919 version)

Excerpt 1

Excerpt 1 – Danse Infernal
quarter = 168
(beginning – 3)

Horn 1 in F
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Audio files

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, James Levine

Concertgebouw Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini

Minnesota Orchestra, Stanislaw Skrowaczewsky

Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev

Strauss — Till Eulenspiegel, op. 28

Randy Gardner discusses Till Eulenspiegel (VIDEO FOR IHS MEMBERS ONLY)

Excerpt 1

Excerpt 1 – Gemächlich
(beginning – 1)

Horn 1 in F
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Audio files

BBC Symphony, Fritz Busch (Aubrey Brain, horn)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti

Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell

Minnesota Orchestra, Edo de Waart

New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein

Philadelphia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch (David Wetherill, principal horn)

  1. Strauss — Ein Heldenleben, op. 40
  2. Strauss — Don Quixote, op. 35
  3. Strauss — Don Juan, op. 20
  4. Shostakovich — Symphony No. 5, op. 47

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