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- Hans Abrahamsen
Concerto for Horn and Orchestra (2019)
- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
Commissioned by Stiftung Berliner Philharmoniker, NHK Symphony Orchestra, NTR Zaterdag Matinee, Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Auckland Philharmonia
The soloist Stefan Dohr is granted performance exclusivity until July 2021.
- hn + 3.3.2.2/2.2.3.0/timp.2perc/cel.hp/str
- Horn
- 18 min
- 29th May 2026, Helsinki Music Centre, Helsinki, Finland
Media
Abrahamsen: Concerto for Horn and Orchestra / Dohr · Järvi · Berliner Philharmoniker
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Reviews
The three seamless movements move from slow, gentle dreaming to urgent activity and then back to consoling melodic lines, as the horn lines drift over fragile orchestral landscapes, with the large orchestra used very sparingly.
8th August 2024
Intimate, between comfort and resignation, silent despair and sublime beauty.
31st January 2020
The horn as an instrument of nature and idyll: In his concert, the Danish composer pays tribute to the very classical image of the horn. [...] A panorama of vastness and tranquility opens up at the beginning, the strings and flageolet hint at dawning distances, plucks of the harp light up like the first stars in the evening, and the block of wood that a percussionist beats meaningfully cracks. And the horn? It sings above it as longingly and brightly as only a horn can: softly muted, with a vision of great adventures, perhaps also with the memory of them.
30th January 2020
A deliberate disorientation that has something sophisticatedly mysterious about it.
30th January 2020
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