Anneke Scott on her Hawkes piston horn, Dennis Brain and a transcriptions of Saint-Saëns Le Cygne скачать в хорошем качестве

Anneke Scott on her Hawkes piston horn, Dennis Brain and a transcriptions of Saint-Saëns Le Cygne

Here's my latest addition to the ever increasing collection of fortnightly videos as part of my #CornoNotCorona project. You can view the video of the performance for this fortnight here:    • Anneke Scott performs Sam's transcription ...   This week I’ve turned to the last of my piston horns. I’ve thus far included two Raoux pistons horns and two Boosey piston horns and this week I’m using a piston horn made by Hawkes. Part of the reason I’ve got a fair few piston horns is that here in the UK this was the type of valve horn used up until the second half of the 20th century. Huge numbers of horns were made so it’s not that unusual to find them. Another reason I’ve chosen a piston horn, and specifically a British piston horn for this fortnights contribution is that tomorrow, Monday 17th of May 2021 is the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the great horn player Dennis Brain. Brain is probably one of the most famous, and certainly influential horn players of all time so I probably don’t really need to speak much about him [you can find out a lot more in either “Dennis Brain: A Biography” by Stephen Pettitt (Faber and Faber https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571254224...) or “Dennis Brain: A Life in Music” by Stephen Gamble and William Lynch (University of North Texas Press https://untpress.unt.edu/catalog/3094) other than to say that he was instrumental in the UK horn scene making the eventual change from French style piston horns to German style rotary horns. Brain’s piston horns were Raoux’s including instruments that had originally been natural horns but had had valve blocks added. This particular instrument is a Hawkes and Son “Excelsior Sonorous Class” instrument. Hawkes & Son was founded in 1865 by William Henry Hawkes as Hawkes & Company, then Riviere & Hawkes and finally Hawkes & Son. Hawkes & Son merged with Boosey & Co in 1930 so this instrument dates from before then. There’s a lot of details on these instruments that point to them copying the French instrument of the time, such as the slightly brutal “H” poinçon, not quite as elegant as the Raoux equivalents. This instrument would have been played on a variety of crooks, and the individual valve slides have engraved markings showing the position of the valve slide for each key, so if I went up to the high A crooks the slides are all the way in, but I have the options for A flat, G, F down to E flat. Having chosen a British piston horn to mark Dennis Brain’s 100th birthday tomorrow I’ve chosen a piece by a composer who died 100 years ago, Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921). This is not the first Saint-Saëns piece I’ve performed in this series but this one is not an original work for horn and piano but instead a transcription for “cor chromatique” (i.e. piston horn) of the famous cello solo, The Swan from Saint-Säens’s The Carnival of the Animals, by one “A. Sam”. https://ks.imslp.info/files/imglnks/u... If you've enjoyed this or any of the other historic horn videos please do subscribe to my youtube channel or even buy me a "ko-fi" here 🙂 https://ko-fi.com/annekescott