En-Cor! – American Horn Quartet

Steve Schaughency (horn), Peter Dahlstrom (horn), American Horn Quartet

Catalog #: TROY1536
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Format: Digital
Chamber

Entering its 30th season, the American Horn Quartet continues to be unique in the field of brass chamber music. Their exuberant performances have brought audiences all over the world to their feet. The individual members of the AHQ are all very successful soloists in their own right — four Americans who work and reside in Europe. The AHQ has more than 500 concerts and masterclasses to its credit and has produced 10 compact discs. This disc, a collection of gems that the AHQ has performed over the years, is appropriately titled En-Cor!

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Track Listing

Title Composer Performer
Sabre Dance Aram Khachaturian American Horn Quartet
Fiesta Fanfare Kerry Turner American Horn Quartet
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair Claude Debussy American Horn Quartet
Pizzicato Ostinato (Symphony No. 4) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky American Horn Quartet
Flower Duet Léo Delibes American Horn Quartet
It Ain't Necessarily So George Gershwin American Horn Quartet
Summertime George Gershwin American Horn Quartet
Eleanor Rigby John Lennon/McCartney American Horn Quartet
Moon River Henry Mancini American Horn Quartet
America-Tonight Leonard Bernstein American Horn Quartet
Sinfonia II, BWV797 J.S. Bach American Horn Quartet
Air on the G-String, BWV1068 J.S. Bach American Horn Quartet
Fugue in G-minor "Little," BWV578 J.S. Bach American Horn Quartet
Andante in D-flat Anton Bruckner American Horn Quartet
Frippery 9 "Charleston" Lowell Shaw American Horn Quartet
Frippery 14 "Something in Two" Lowell Shaw American Horn Quartet
Cavatina Stanley Myers American Horn Quartet

Reviews

  • "In short, a delightful album of favorites in virtuoso performances by four players who act as a true ensemble. Wonderful expert performances captured in fine sound."

    – Fanfare

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