English Horn Solo from Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 "From The New World" Mvt. II Largo

[judgemintz]

p.s. - Ill be watching for Pines of Rome!

[judgemintz]

Well done - there's some minor "surgery" you can give your Loree to add resonance to high "c" that involves a 2mm expansion of the 2d octave key - it will make that note "sing"

[20roxas08]

thank you Little Einsteins

[hipepleful]

@20roxas08 ???? what??

[20roxas08]

@hipepleful The first time I heard this was on the childrend's show Little Einsteins.

[xxxBradTxxx]

ebay is your friend I got a loree AP48 english horn for $3300

SCORE!!!!

[hipepleful]

Do you have sheet music for it? You played great!

[acadamiacs]

'Love it! We will watch this in our preschool music class this week! Thanks for a great video. A special request.... would you be able to upload a video introducing youngsters to the English horn please? I don't have one to show & they would love it. I can;t find any video on Youtube that tells about this lovely instrument. Thanks!

[hipepleful]

what kind of reed is that??

[rdt425]

@hipepleful I make my own reeds

[hipepleful]

@rdt425 cool

[CatFlashBlue]

Such a noble and wonderful instrument, especially for the "country hillside", Oh Danny Boy-reminiscent solo you played. I mean, I'm just a meesly bassoonist in high school so what would I know? But I could feel the emotion and embouchure control.

[aagjmb]

Thank you!

[4LeafCover]

Is it the howarth s20c? Or is it the s40c or the XL?

(i have a howarth oboe and i love it by the way)

[rdt425]

@4LeafCover It's just the S20c, nothing too fancy.

[4LeafCover]

what kind of english horn is that?

[rdt425]

@4LeafCover It's made in London by a company called Howarth.

[IHUGANASIAN]

I love you...

[hopeali13]

Is the English horn in the key of Eb or what?

[rdt425]

@hopeali13 It is pitched in F, a fifth below the oboe

[it0Tpt]

Eng. horn flat is French horn?

[Daemonthedeamon]

thats beautiful. Im going to play english horn. I'm switching over from flute. Its going to be hard, but do you have any tips for beginners?

[TheodoreKitty]

Is that you're horn?

[PianoGuy213]

is switching form 3 years experience oboe to english horn easy?

[Tenifus]

@PianoGuy213 I have a friend who recently switched from english horn to oboe, and he didn't seem to have a problem. I play oboe, but I've never played an English Horn, so I'm not very sure.

[Ratoa000]

@PianoGuy213 - I think it's easy to get started. I just started E. horn. The fingerings are pretty much the same, from what I've seen, and playing it is similar. The main thing you have to be sure of is that you're adjusting. When you finger a Bb on an E. horn, it's a fifth below what you would expect. So it's a little difficult to get used to that.

[SuperJbmc]

i can play this on piano and my grandpa was one of the best english horn players in the world

[xxxBradTxxx]

how hard would it be going from tenor sax to english horn?

I play tenor but I want to play a rarer reed instrument

[rdt425]

Typically you would learn the oboe before playing the English horn. The fingerings are very similar, so I guess that would be to your advantage, but otherwise they are two totally different instruments to learn.

[Stoneripple1]

@rdt425 actually oboe fingerings are fairly simular to sax as well, I think playing oboe first is usually for the embouchure, also, playing the english horn has disadvantages, not all music has parts for them

[STMAKnightMike]

@rdt425 How about bassoon to either oboe or english horn?

[choirgirl1384]

@xxxBradTxxx I think it would be difficult in the sense that you have to totally retrain your mouth in order to get a good quality oboe/english horn embouchure. Double reeds and single reeds have very different embouchures, so that would be most of the difficulty in switching.

[AbrahamSmith102093]

Beautiful, but the vibrato should be wider and more steady...

[Hazy804]

when was this piece written, parts remind me of the opening to the rite of spring

[rdt425]

This was written in 1893 I believe, and the Rite of Spring was written in 1913

[EhhMazingg]

My teacher is making me play this, I'm scared cause I'm so used to the oboe. It's so hard for my tiny hands. But you played it sooo amazingly I wish I could do it!

[rdenist]

Beautiful! But I'm a bit biased. :-)

[loveisovertaking]

Youtube is recommending other English horn videos, all playing the same piece, but why bother watching other videos? One can easily replay this video again and again, enjoying the fine playing of this young musician. A+, will watch again.

[rdt425]

Thanks, you are too kind.