Robert Schumann, Adagio und Allegro Op. 70 for horn and piano - Anneke Scott & Steven Devine

[@atli8d20]

Thank you for your effort playing all these instruments and recording this piece. Bravo!

[@AnnekeScott]

My pleasure!

[@DentelloRomanticComposer1820s]

It sounds so good, I like a lot to see those 19th-century instruments! Thank you, Mrs. Scott, for sharing those videos about those instruments and excellent performances!! For me, as a composer, it helps a lot!

[@AnnekeScott]

My pleasure! Glad you've found these videos so helpful!

[@derekhayes8209]

Thank you Anneke and Steven for this wonderful posting, a new dimension to this classic of our repertoire. Inspiring.

[@AnnekeScott]

Thank you! It really is such a central and important piece in our repertoire, isn't it?

[@briancarlick9958]

Lovely. I tried playing this in my horn playing youth. I used a "pumpenhorn" for a short while and had limited experience playing valve less instruments. I was pupil of Horace Fitzpatrick in Oxford. I wonder if you have heard of him? Nice to hear an instrument that is not a Bb alto or a double horn! Reading music from a tablet computer is the only thing that looks a bit out of place!

[@AnnekeScott]

Thanks Brian! Yes, very much know of Fitzpatrick - his name comes up a lot in historic horn circles thanks to his rather infamous book on the Austro-Bohemian school. He was undoubtedly extremely influential and very important in raising the profile of the instrument. You're right about how different single F horns can be. And 🤣 - yes! Tablets are very much a thing these days - makes life a lot easier in many respects (lugging sheafs of music about, page turns are easier as well), but do take on board it looks very different to the rest of what we're doing!

[@michaelbrubaker]

Brilliant! A beautiful rendition of a truly revolutionary piece that changed music and horn playing.

[@AnnekeScott]

Yes! It really is amazing how Schumann conceived of the horn around this time - it's such bold and brave writing for the instrument.

[@giacomogiromella3457]

fabulous performance!

[@AnnekeScott]

Thank you!

[@roycezaro1998]

I love this. I love this music, this instrument, and this channel. Hopefully one day I’ll have a few historical horns (or at least copies) to play all the old music on in the manner they were intended to be heard by their composer.

[@AnnekeScott]

Thanks! The instruments can be very informative and we can learn so much from them.

[@hansachs]

Love it on the single F, Bravo Bravo! Anneke, Strauss 2 on E flat natural next please!!

[@AnnekeScott]

Ha! Lovely idea but think Strauss had a different type of horn in mind for that one. Great piece nonetheless!

[@jungwildf218]

Amazing! The sound of this unique horn is really similar to vienna horn's.

[@AnnekeScott]

Indeed!

[@stickom]

Not a musician here, still... this is beautiful. (myself playing in a youth orchestra in early 80', Beethoven 8th, "trio" second horn part... priceless!!!

[@AnnekeScott]

Oh! LOVE that bit of the Beethoven - playing all the symphonies at the moment so looking forward to that one in particular.

[@JimRhem]

Lovely. Inspiring.

[@AnnekeScott]

Thanks!

[@mamorufukuzawa1878]

Bravo! So nice sound with your F horn !

[@abelsantos76]

Nice playing rendition on a good piece of horn lit. Question for you, Ms.Scott: the slightly delayed tempo pickup into the main theme of the allegro… just curious as to why you play it that way? The deliberate articulation in that is also very good, but again, is there a musical reason for the idea of how you played it? Most recordings or performances I’ve witnessed, the hornists don’t play it that way… if you could shed some light on that please? Much obliged and thank you for your time and always outstanding musicianship.

[@AnnekeScott]

Hi Abel, great questions! The reason i do that is partially because there is a lot of evidence pointing to us having a much more metronomic approach to music in the 20th/21st century than musicians would have expressed in the 19th. A bit more of a sense of rubato and "pulling things around" can be heard in lots of early recordings for example. Have you come across the term "agogic" (often used in the context of "agogic accent") - it's a way of stressing a beat more by extending it than accenting it, and that's what I'm doing here. Hope that helps?

[@bencekuna4195]

Still amazing!

[@AnnekeScott]

thank you!

[@GotYourWallet]

Is this a specially tuned horn? I tried playing along on my piano and I sound completely out of tune!

[@AnnekeScott]

Yes! This performance is at A430, so lower than modern pitch (c.A440). Many 19th century instruments are tuned at different pitches, normally I play this instrument around A436-A438 but the piano is kept at A430 so I used a longer crook to lower the pitch to meet the piano.