posthorn

The third movement's off-stage posthorn was heard as though through mountain mists, setting up an aura in which Katarina Karnéus's mezzo soprano was perfectly focused, while the women's voices of the BBC National Chorus of Wales – together with the boys of Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester cathedral choirs – rang out with bell-like precision.

BBC Now/Otaka – review Rian Evans 2010

I know I have recordings of this piece, notable for its use of an everyday street instrument, the posthorn, but I confess I have never listened to them carefully.

Howard Kissel: From Carnegie Hall to the Frick: A Week of Cultural Discoveries Howard Kissel 2011

It was easiest to concentrate on the many beautifully shaped details, especially violin and offstage posthorn and, despite some rough moments, the exciting brass fortissimos.

Francesca da Rimini, Fantastic Mr Fox; BBC Proms 24 & 25 2010

Bicyclists now speed along in the track of the old coaches; but they are not quite so picturesque, and the bicycle bell is less musical than the cheerful posthorn.

English Villages 1892

Those were busy times for the old inns, when there was stabling for fifty or sixty horses, and the coaches used to rattle through the village to the inn door long before the iron horses began to drag their freight of passengers along the iron roads, and the scream of the engines took the place of the cheerful notes of the posthorn.

English Villages 1892

The ensuing musical interludes were capably done as well, the graceful minuet movement led by oboist William Bennett and the scherzo graced by a breathtakingly beautiful posthorn solo delivered from the upper terrace by principal trumpeter Mark Inouye.

SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Chronicle jkosman@sfchronicle.com (Joshua Kosman 2011

Watermark: [posthorn in crowned shield (upper portion)].

Letter from Mary Wollstonecraft to Mary Robinson (15 April 1796 1797

And the shapely offstage posthorn solos in the third movement, to say nothing of the solo string and woodwind lines that emerge throughout the score, provided an appealing counterweight to the high-impact full ensemble playing.

NYT > Home Page By ALLAN KOZINN 2010

Four of his symphonies have parts for choirs and vocal soloists, and his sound-world includes everything from the quietest, most intimate instrumental lines (an offstage posthorn solo in the Third Symphony) to the loudest noises that had ever been heard in a concert hall: in a passage at the end of the Seventh Symphony, a carillon of cowbells overwhelms the orchestral instruments, an inversion no other composer could have conceived of.

The Guardian World News 2010

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Toytown Germany - Germany feed 2008