Stefan Dohr: R. Strauss' Horn Concerto No. 1

Stefan Dohr
Okayama Symphony Orchestra
Hansjörg Schellenberger (conductor)
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Okayama Symphony Hall
July 2015

[@Gundy09]

Has to be the single most stressful piece to play. All horn players know every single note and articulation and are just waiting for a mistake. Stellar performance and undoubtedly one of the best players. At the end though it is nice to know your human.

[@masonroush832]

AHHHHHHHHHHH

[@vascopinheiro1872]

Its bravo

[@tracymckerrell4955]

Playing this with Stefan Dohr TONIGHT!! Can’t quite believe it, very lucky.

[@MercenaryLocusGaming]

Did anybody scream at the end?

[@tracymckerrell4955]

It was great! He was an absolute joy and spent a lot of his time with the local french horn students, then sat in the orchestra and joined in with some of the other pieces we played. Top man!

[@TheYassarah]

The commentary at the end is exactly what I do everytime I finish playing this. Lol

[@hyzaar99]

Having been the horn player in an ensemble playing this piece, that was probably one of the best times of my life

[@azjc6352]

A 40 member orchestra sure sounds pretty darn great! Oh, and Stefan was excellent as usual.

[@BigRedCatFTW]

That scream at the end scared me so much! jebus h crikey

[@seamushealy1535]

. . . "their very laughter is fraught with pain"

[@Corvusthemad]

Wtf? That guy screaming? Yeah, we loved it, but your enthusiasm...wow.

[@JonatasMonte]

I admire him for that

[@furanrabbits]

JonatasMonte I thought it was totally hilarious 😂😂😂

[@samueldeleon412]

I mildly chuckled. Had I been there, I probably would have burst out laughing.

[@dasteufelhund]

Well, can't help if you are low energy.

[@lnhart7157]

I mentioned this video to Stefan Dohr a while ago, and he actually knew the guy by name and said he's regularly at the concerts and always very enthusiastic - and uncharacteristically Japanese he said he tends to be loudly enthusiastic.

[@samuilzlatev5664]

He played Strauss 2 in my country. The best thing i have ever heard live...

[@UturnatA2]

For the ones wondering, the subtitles at the end are :"Bravoooo!!!"

[@Coton881]

What a wonderful performance...perfection! Truly the King of the horn!

[@cheesemongerinF]

In August this year in LA he did the 2nd Strauss c'to from memory also and NOTE perfect. When one can transcend technique as he can only the music comes out.

[@jaydee8872]

+cheesemongerinF That was an outstanding performance. Turns out he's a really nice guy as well. He was so accessible to students and colleagues

[@rilke1791]

The right notes and memorization are not what made this interpretation so great, those are standards and are expected from any professional. What puts him above the rest is his phrasing and his musical interpretation is brilliant!

[@jeffreychan6357]

Is there any recording of that performance?

[@laconciadellalora]

Stefan? GREAT GREAT GREAT!!! and again GREAT!!! Thank you for play like this!! Alberto

[@roystone9932]

That's one massive , beautiful sound.

[@ClaireJanezic]

you're talking about the scream, right?

[@EvanJHagen]

i. 0:18 ii. 5:32 iii. 10:18

[@TheeMelloMan]

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

[@vascopinheiro1872]

Its bravo

[@BryanKujawa1]

FANTASTIC PERFORMANCE! Love hearing Dohr play!

[@user-of4pz1hh1i]

もう、キレッキレのノリノリですよ‼️ソリストもオーケストラも‼️ハイ‼️

[@kokonssp]

Deep and rich horn tone and orchestra matching. Great symphony!

[@garykuovideos]

Wow, what a beautiful sound!

[@nicolatiana1770]

Stefan + Hansjörg --> numeri 1 !!!!

[@avrumgolub2735]

Marvelously musical interpretation harkening back to Mendelssohn! Excellent technique, virtually flawless and eschewing bombast.

[@mysticcrazy3]

Going to be playing this next spring! So excited!!!

[@jackearly1487]

I have watched so many time, and it never fails to amaze me. Truly a master of the horn.

[@ariston8368]

Probably the best performance i know of this piece

[@bonniebowers4603]

I loved it but the audience scream drew me back in!!! Yes! Because he nailed it and that was the perfect way to express excitement for such an amazing once in a lifetime. And just becausw i am sentimental, i am pretending he wiped a tear away from his eye as well bc i would have been a hot mess if it had been me!!! Amazing inspirational performance. This was my college audition (a lortion) and it holds a special place in my heart. Amazing performance

[@massimostagni9129]

la voce evocativa di questo strumento rispecchia il romanticismo classico, il compositore trasporta l'ascoltatore in mondi fantastici.

[@bridgetbolliger]

Such beautiful playing . Gorgeous phrasing all the way.

[@robinblankenship9234]

And, naturally, a quiet, reverent thought for the glorious Dennis Brain who really made the modern use of the solo horn a reality.

[@margefranklin3213]

It was a beautiful & stirring performance. I loved it too.

[@Blueboyo1]

I've heard that Concerto played numerous times by numerous players, but that was just extraordinary. No stridency, anywhere. Stefan has changed his interpretation since last I heard him play it. Much for the better. Brilliant.

[@tiredrummertube]

I can just imagine how many excellent musicians auditioned for each of those chairs! We are living in amazing times. THX for this upload of art! dflatMajor!

[@davidwei5908]

The best play volume and neat note than ever, Bravo!!!

[@KOLODNY95]

I played trumpet in the HS band. My bandmaster, John Lackey, could make the FH sing like a voice from heaven. So beautiful!

[@Sophiestelle]

A great master piece!

[@laelenistica9666]

15:23 BRAAAAAVOOOOO!!!!!!

[@teremiskihorncamp514]

heard him live! perfect!

[@nobtgms18]

Stephan, you played in my home town, Okayama!! I should have listened to his horn solo.

[@user-po5uc8te7f]

that's how it's done right there! Strauss #1 was my college audition piece. Always good to hear it done right!

[@hara5528]

beautiful…♪

[@gregarityNow]

Stefan Dohr is a bad bad man wooow my socks are clean off 😍

[@kokonssp]

powerful, yet delicate and wonderful horn concerto

[@sigvardronnholm]

Great Horn, great performance/. Danke/.

[@milliebysh526]

I love how he just drops his horn like a mic drop at the end 😂

[@sookaiwen9995]

well he didnt dropped

[@dominiquemartin9237]

TOUJOURS LE MEILLEUR

[@lizoconnor2752]

He's awesome ❤

[@janrlycavalcante6523]

Extraordinaire !!

[@felixgaelitobossg4579]

Música para sensibilidades, sumamente desarrolladas!!!

[@chiranthanr3163]

BRAVOOOO!

[@cameronb.8464]

15:23

[@PentameronSV]

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

[@furanrabbits]

😂😂😂😂

[@vascopinheiro1872]

@@PentameronSV its bravo

[@luigitannoia2230]

The best.

[@surenkarapetyan1262]

bravo!!!

[@tommasorighi8063]

It's not "aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh", it's "Bravoooooooooooooo"

[@karinhorner1466]

I loved that cry of joy at the end. 😅

[@user-hw7io4sj1f]

うますぎ！すご！

[@magalibuttin6103]

Better than my connexion

[@user-of4pz1hh1i]

感極まった強気の雄叫び‼️ハイ‼️

[@cz8085]

bravo

[@carloshernandez4978]

Mi preferido

[@carlosalbertohernandezjime9878]

Impecable este maestro

[@danielibanezgarcia]

Impressive

[@user-uk4zy6do6w]

出だしで即死。 凄すぎて。 ドール ベルリンフィルで名曲録音を出来る限り沢山刻んで欲しい!

[@user-of4pz1hh1i]

さすがに唸っちゃいました‼️ハイ‼️

[@simonkawasaki4229]

AAAAAHHHHH

[@notmyworld44]

The hollering was probably from a frustrated horn player, like me for instance. But I don't think I would have done that. I'm much too cool for that.

[@katycamille8357]

😂😂

[@notmyworld44]

@@katycamille8357 , you made my day, darlin'!

[@robinblankenship9234]

Of course you are!! LOL

[@notmyworld44]

@katycamille8357: Thanks, darlin'.

[@llleeonnn]

well played :)

[@decapodhemovore]

If you feel it, you gotta scream it

[@keithyeung9097]

The loud bravo seems a culture in Japan.

[@eliftezer4848]

I know him from Schubert/octet. He is Berlin Philharmonic member. My first listening has done and Ive been thinking he is good hornist. Screaming man: must be fanboy of R. Strauss's compose or Stefan Dohr. :p

[@johnransom539]

How about a close up of the wonderful clarinet obligato in the slow movement

[@alejandrobonillaortiz5434]

felicidades cornista

[@sergepaloyan]

Hello , congratulations ! Do you know that I wrote a Horn concerto edited by IMD Arpèges at Paris....non yet performed !

[@caseycronan9217]

Same, guy, same. Ah!

[@ponchoponchon2504]

Los aplausos deterioran a los artistas

[@SamuelDilmar]

I love this solo. Its so great. But why does he shout at the end? lol

[@pauforcadellcampos4452]

It's not him lol it's an audience member

[@junisovich]

15:23 Qué fue eso?

[@baguettelord9741]

15:23 AAAAAAAAAAAH 🗣🗣🗣💯💯💯💯

[@DankradMP]

BRAVO!!! hahah

[@martinkanthi3464]

C EST LUI LE PRODIGE

[@martinkanthi3464]

JE PENSE QUE STEPHAN SURPASSE RADEK PAR LA PUISSANCE MAIS TOUS LES DEUX SONT DES ANGES BENIS DES DIEUX MERCI INFINIMENT POUR CE BONHEUR MUSICAL EXTREME

[@Francophone974]

BIEN D'ACCORD AVEC VOUS DEUX, QUELS CADEAUX POUR NOS OREILLES SENSIBLES ! AU PASSAGE QUELQU'UN SAIT À QUELLE ADRESSE OÙ ON DOIT ENVOYER LA DEMANDE POUR LE REMBOURSEMENT DE LA CARTE DE TRANSPORTS ?

[@martinkanthi3464]

DOHR ET DE PLATINE

[@rinosquarzoni9438]

Forse il più bello concerto, per corno.

[@cutechicken4770]

I’m playing this piece right now and it is beautiful. How do you nail the b flats? Need urgent help on the b flats (but reasonable cuz I’m 11)

[@adrianmiller4285]

Practice. Practice. Practice. But warm up carefully. My teacher says play the low stuff for twenty minutes before working up into the high range. And, "it starts to get easier if you do three hours a day"😮

[@cmw12]

Why don’t horn players use vibrato? I always think it would sound better, but I know very little about the mechanics.

[@Joewylie3]

Edouard Hanslick (Viennese music critic) and Wagner poo pooed it. Older Moscow recordings (Valery Poeleck) used a wide vibrato. Leningrad's Valery Buyanovsky used a narrower vibrato. The French went so far as to practice vibrato with a metronome !! You can hear a vibrato in Myron Bloom's sound. (He said he never analyzed it). It's my opinion that if everything is absolutely perfect a natural vibrato will occur. (a nice litmus test). Lastly is the nanny goat vibrato. It occurs when you're shit your pants terrified !! HaHaHaHa

[@stephaniecurry45]

Joe Wylie cool but u didn’t really answer the question

[@tobiaslidstromstre2392]

Because horn players focus more on the quality of the sound than vibrato i guess.

[@samwescoat5750]

Bc it sounds like ass when you use vibrato on horn

[@philippredes4204]

Vibrato must be forbidden, it Sounds everywhere like crap

[@homesteadchoir7272]

1:03

[@swetoct]

Оркестр, конечно, немного местами-временами излишне шумноват-громковат. Этот лидер-валторнист ("штучный товар") Стефан способен валторну заставить зазвучать как того она заслуживает. Слушаю его исполнение с удовольствием и особенно соло во второй части 5-й симфонии П,Чайковского ( там валторна - царица симфонического оркестра).

[@joonyah8904]

Music for this would be nice!

[@erwinhood5830]

You can find it on imslp.org

[@joonyah8904]

Wow, I was here 6 years ago and here I am again

[@cookieclash3015]

Lol

[@baileybye4010]

Is he playing most of this on the F side of the horn? That seems like an unusual choice to me!

[@EvanJHagen]

+Bailey Bye I think his horn is fixed in Bb, which means pressing thumb switches it to F, unlike most American double horns. So he actually is playing on mostly the Bb side.

[@baileybye4010]

+Evan Hagen Thanks, very cool--I've never seen a horn like that before. Learn something new every day! :)

[@EvanJHagen]

+Bailey Bye On some double horns you can actually do this on your own. I just discovered this with my new Yamaha 667. You can redo the string and valve placement to make it fixed in either Bb or F.

[@ludovicomaletti]

you actually can switch any double horn to that setting pretty simply

[@alistairhenderson2531]

Any idea why he chooses to play it fixed in Bb?

[@jsnam8139]

BRA Fuxxing BO!!!!

[@kr-us5ik]

7:46

[@user-of4pz1hh1i]

ハイ‼️フレデリック・フランソワ・ショパンのピアノ協奏曲と同じ作品１１です‼️ハイ‼️偶然にも‼️ハイ‼️

[@totoro195]

10:30

[@thogg6363]

Uhm... this isn't opus 1. Its opus 11. Big difference guys. Come on, get it right. Really though, I dont care. Beautiful performance. Love this piece and just wanted to make a lil joke.

[@waffle1012]

Lorenzo saw this comment. Anthony and Alejandro Trejo saw this too.

[@MrMaiquangvinh]

You're playing Triple Horn · Model 301

[@avrumgolub2735]

Mr. Dohr's horn is a yellow brass Alexander 103, a double horn.

[@MrMaiquangvinh]

+Avrum Golub Yes, Alex.103.

[@avrumgolub2735]

+Vinh Mai Quang You're welcome. What horn do you play?

[@MrMaiquangvinh]

+Avrum Golub Alex.Mod.503

[@avrumgolub2735]

+Avrum Golub I was John Barrows' first "kid" student (1958). I play an Alexander 107X.

[@kaitlynarmstrong8583]

who else here to help practice for all state? :3

[@vladimirnikolic4215]

BRAVO PAICEICUUUUUU JEBI STRAUSAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@ohraider]

Ok, but what is the scream lool

[@powerman-yu9jn]

I laugh a lot with the guy screaming

[@josemassano5467]

Tokyo Drift 0:05

[@ethanmusc9535]

15:23