Mozart: Hornbone Concertos

Read About This Recording

What happens when musicologists get a new, significant piece of information about the instrumentation of some of Mozart's music? Well, they get busy rethinking what has always been accepted, and that kind of thinking is what led to this startling new recording of what we think of as Mozart's four horn concertos.

There has always been speculation that Mozart may have written his horn concertos for a long-extinct instrument called the hornbone, which looks something like a trombone, but isn't. In any event, during the late 1990s, a restored oil painting showed Mozart's score of his horn concertos and in the painting was a hornbone. This discovery led to the building of a replica of the instrument and ultimately to the exciting recording we have here.

Christian Lindberg is the soloist and he plays this 'new' instrument with a forceful tone. Further, the instrument handles the demands of Mozart's writing beautifully, and it sounds wonderful accompanied by the Tapiola Sinfonietta led by Jean-Jacques Kantarow. This disc contains four of Mozart's most-beloved concertos, but presented in an entirely new and fascinating way.

—Jacob Anthony

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"Lindberg's lyricism and his spirit of fun were impressive." —The Globe and Mail, Toronto

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Contents

Concertos: No. 1 in D-flat Major; No. 2 in E-flat Major; No. 3 in E-flat Major; No. 4 in E-flat Major.

Christian Lindberg, Hornbone; Tapiola Sinfonietta; Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Conductor.