Hornissimo

The full force of the horns opens this chamber music concert. "When I hear a horn, my heart warms," ​​Robert Schumann once wrote. "The horn has something of the sound of nature. It speaks to the heart like the voice of a friend," Mozart remarked. For the great master of orchestration, Richard Strauss, it was "the soul of the orchestra," and Benjamin Britten believed the horn was "a true actor in the orchestra," capable of whispering, shouting, la...