R Strauss Horn Concerto No 1 - 3 Barry Tuckwell 1987

[103member]

and he plays with his eyes closed.

[Zekovka1988]

Игра .Барри захватывает.кто-то играет и точнее и быстрее.Но его хочется слушать ещё и ещё!!!!!!

[donatoinglese]

IL MIGLIOR PRIMO STRAUSS DEGLI ULTIMI 100 ANNI QUANDO ASCOLTATE QUESTO INCHINATEVI E SILENZIO !!! P.S. UNO SUONO DI CORNO COSì IO IN ITALIA NON L'HO MAII SENTITO !!!!!

[Ulleval73]

...the 'stash'...on a Horn player...so cool.

[klo1024]

I love how he rips the horn away from his face after hard lines. So dramatic. hahahaha

[Mkohlbauer]

What amazes me most is how he takes off his horn!!!

Great to watch.

My favourite horn player, just cool!

[millfred123]

I LOVE the horn played this way, wish more soloists would play with gusto

[mpotts123]

Rose Brass? Anyone know. I know it's a Horton 105

[MrAdrianoconti]

un primo di strauss da dio!

[TheMahler1896]

Beautifoul and so difficult concert. I'm a hornist and I love Barry!

[bubblyblondie77]

I play the French horn also so i know how difficult that instrument is, and every time i hear Barry Tuckwell play i get goosebumps i love his music so much it is such terrific music! just beautifu!! he is such an inspiration!

[exhornnerd]

There are many fine players these days who have phenomenal techniques, but Barry was one of the last to actually push the boundaries and play a musical phrase. The odd cracked note yes, but oh so much more moving are Tuckwell's performances than the modern players. It's OK to risk and crack rather than play safe and bore.

[orichalcum1]

@exhornnerd  - well said Sir!

[mirro379]

People, the solo player's part is allowed to be modified. It does not have to be the same as the composer wrote it. The soloist can modify to whatever point he or she is pleased with. Obviously they don't rewrite the whole solo, but with Tuckwell who by the way is a damn good horn player, he took chances and he was able to execute an excellent performance.

[caldagia]

terrible horn (the instrument, not barry, he's wonderful!) like the Yamaha's

[sahidinc]

muy muy muy hermoso!Barry Tuckwell

[Lorenzo8D]

Bravo! Bravo! Love it! Incredibly courageous player.

[webusch3]

Excellent.  The low note was interesting, but otherwise he's a great, if not the greatest, living horn player!

[Blondie5652]

Beautiful horn playing...he is a god...

[piliage]

Wow. Some serious morons on this page. Let's do some math. He was born in 1931, this recording is 1987. Now, that puts him at 55-or 56 years of age. Most horn players are passed their sell by date and moving down the section waiting for their pension at 56. This guy is bashing out High Bb LIVE and doesn't give a DAMN. He's got bigger balls than 99% of pros playing today. Dude invented the modern horn, yet joe-jock 'horn players' on this site criticize? Go buy a clue and learn some respect.

[SuperPhreak23]

@piliage Well, Emory Tapley and Andy Spearman are currently rocking out in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, and they're both in their 60s! But yeah, Tuckwell bashers, buy a clue. Maybe a horn, too, while you're at it.

[piliage]

@SuperPhreak23 Damn Right! Old Horn Players Unite!! Power to the Clams!

[SquarecutK]

Oh my god, I found a mistake in 4:31.

Srsly though, BT's awesome.

[andrearoma123]

@tuckwell45 BARRY TUCKWELL è UN CORNISTA COMPLETO UNODEI PIù GRANDI  NON QUELLA PIPPA DI BABORAK ! CHE HA UN SUONACCIO DA CANE

[andrearoma123]

BARRY TUCKWELL è IL NUMERO 1

[OneWithTheBugs]

I'm going to learn this in a little over a week. Wish me luck!

[ronaldosucks1]

simply brilliant, now, all you doubters, have a listen to the london horn sound playing 'give it one" here on you tube

[mlark4]

The date 1987 is near end of his solo career. Remarkable accuracy, fluidity, & expression which make it great. He's playing Holton Farkas. Great sound. If you aren't a pro, you aren't qualified to critique a pro (I'm not either). I saw scores of solo perf. by Tuckwell in 70's thru 80's and he was just as accurate but more impressive & perfect, made it sound EASY. He's blown out his lip now. Dramatic tempi here; not done in his past. Breathing=fine. Played full tilt as always. See older videos 2.

[hornerinf]

This is his Holton, which he gave up in the latter part of his solo career and went back to his old Kruspe. I think he had a much nicer sound on the Kruspe. The Holton is more of a rough sound. I heard him live playing the Britten Serenade on the Kruspe. It was magic.

[univocalic]

I heard Tuckwell play this piece in Newcastle in c. 1979, I didn't hear half as many sforzando notes as there are in this recording. I wonder if he altered his style for this performance to appeal to the Japanese audience.

[SkodaRapidTibi]

This movement is ridiculous. He did a lot of unmusical things, like accents and in the main theme, the rythm is preposterous. Not the same as in the score.

[1758302964]

@SkodaRapidTibi

It depends on the player. When you play a piece, you are putting your own intonation into it and thus it's different for every person. As long as you aren't changing the notes, rythm (unless it's rubato), and time, you're fine.

THERE IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG, it is about musical expression.

[samreedblahblah]

If everyone always did things by the book the world would be a very boring place to live in. Get a life. Nerrrrd

[piliage]

@SkodaRapidTibi "Not the same as in the score".

What score? Who's? Which edition? What about the fact he left out the optional second high Bb in the coda, is that the composer's original? Many marks in scores are the editor's, not the composer's. Ultimately, if it sounds good to you and the audience, who gives a shit. He is the soloist, he can play it however the heck he likes. If the punters don't like it, he isn't invited back. You don't like the interpretation? Fine. Leave it at that.

[44jesusfreak4]

i love his crescendos

[Dunavec]

Herman Bauman is better

[mcchornist]

My goodness.... All hail the Barry Tuckwell. I LOVE this song. I can only hope to play half as well as he can someday....

[tubonianflute]

Ohhh, I love Tuckwell

[j72050]

.....so many greats...yet when I hear this, I hear the 1950s version with Szell/Bloom.....Szell gave the orchestral attack so much vigor and intensity...it cannot be forgotten.......if you read orchestra members accounts, Szell was brutal to Bloom.....I guess all others, too......

[lavigokrew]

omg Oo

[6come666]

complimenti..

[Tibsnibs]

daemon you must be nuts so insult a grand performance of a legend who has interpreted the piece in his way.

[hornalicious]

We as horn players should be so lucky to even play to his calibre and that of Stefan Dohr or Dale Clevenger. These are all gods of the horn, and we are lucky to even have recordings. Think about when this was recorded...it's not going to pick up all the little subtleties in his playing either. We all must remember...live performances no matter the musician has their challenges as well. The next person who bashes him should post a video of themselves playing it better then him. :) Untill then..!

[erstehorniste]

Tuckwell is a great player. He is responsible for the recognition of the horn as a very popular solo instrument since the death of Dennis Brain. He has done the most difficult job of spending most of his career as a soloist only and having many new horn works written for all of us. He really changed horn playing throughout the 20th century. Can anyone even speculate on the possibility of this type of career in the 21st?

[TheWayner1952]

@erstehorniste

He's spent most of life as a soloist because with that sound there is no way he's going to get hired by a professional orchestra...

[erstehorniste]

@TheWayner1952 Obviously you must not be a horn player or you would understand that as a soloist you do not need to perform with an orchestral sound. As the principle horn in more than one major orchestra Tuckwell was much sought after. His recording of the Strauss Four Last Songs as principle with the Berlin Radio Orchestra (Szell, Schwartzkopf) is probably the most beautiful of any that has been done.

[piliage]

@TheWayner1952 Right. Aside from those 15 as principal of the LSO with Maurice Murphy on Principal Trumpet and Dennis Wick on Principal Trombone, considered the greatest brass section ever. But I suppose you don't like the LSO sound either...

[jrwhorn2626]

I kind of get tired of people bashing tuckwell. I used to not like him that much, but the more I listen closely to him, the more I appreciate his playing. He goes for everything full out, he takes chances, doesn't hold back, doesn't back down from anything.

[daemonwood]

Being bold and going all out is a great thing, until you start top destroy stuff and perform poorly.

[africkle1]

You need to understand that the way Tuckwell actually sounded in this performance is going to be completely different from what we hear on a streamed video online. I will agree with you that with his age, some of his playing deteriorated. However, you can't deny what he brought to the table in terms of the advancement of horn playing. Also, I highly doubt that you could play this concerto better than he did even with this being one of his weaker performances.

[CollegeBoardSucks]

@jrwhorn2626 I'm totally on the same boat as you. I didn't like him before, but now, man he is one of my favorite horn players.

He's not perfect, but, heck, he's an amazing musician. His unique, versatile sound and interpretations are second to none.

[starwarsjunkie7777]

@jrwhorn2626 Have you heard his baroque horn recordings? No one can bash him after hearing them.

[Sillyhoot]

That's strange how at 4:48 he fingers the two consecutive Ds differently.

[FVmike]

@Sillyhoot commence resurrect :)

this could be for a multitude of reasons. He could find the chromatic scale more comfortable from the 12 D than the 3 D. He also could have used a different fingering to make the sound different, in order to put a different stress on that eight note figure (for example, instead of one line, the last 4 notes being "pickups" to the last). Also, (and most probably), the second D serves a different harmonic purpose in its chord, thus need a different tuning.

[daemonwood]

The horn snaps through his performance really made me laugh. I like ho he has a big sound, but I really just don't like this performance as a whole. He does alot of weird things phrasing and volume, those his technicals are amazing. But he just kills it too often for me.

[julaibeeb]

I agree !!!!!!! Tuckwell's technique and his approach to playing is NOT my fave at all........... Find John Cerminaro or Maria Luise Kneunecker, they are MUCH better soloist and horn players.....

[daemonwood]

john cerminaro has always been my favorite on the 8D, though i think finke horns were not a good choice

[julaibeeb]

Find Ceminaro's recording of "Hexadecathalon: A New-Slain Knight" .... I think it is Cerminaro at his BEST !!!!!!!!

[thrillchick2fast4u]

Holy crap, that's insane! I have to learn movement 1 and the last page of this piece for tryouts for our county band! I hope I don't have to play that speed! I'm not that good! D:

[andrestrompista]

como incha!!

[nurygu]

Si ... asi es ...

[ske5721]

<3<3

[horndude5]

He is amazing theres no dought about it

[donatoinglese]

holton mod .tuckwell sound fantastic large trhoated...fantastic alexander sound di merda

barry is awesome!!

[univocalic]

@donatoinglese Are you sure he's playing on an Alexander? I thought he played on a Horton. I may be wrong. It's certainly a big bore sound.