Notes and Editorial Reviews
Calling all horn buffs! Here's an attractive cross-section of 20th-century solo horn compositions, played astonishingly well by Michelle Stebleton. Most of the works are stylistically conservative and anything but audacious, yet all exploit the modern valve horn's timbral and registral potential with idiomatic skill.
The opening salvo, Vitaly Buyanovsky's Espana, challenges players to replicate repeated notes and flourishes that lie comfortably for flamenco guitar. Sustained lyrical passages and rapid outbursts characterize Bernhard Krol's Laudatio, a familiar test piece in the modern horn repertoire. If the basic ideas throughout Paul Basler's Marathon sometimes overstay their welcome, the hornist/composer more than redeems
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himself with his witty, aphoristic Five Pieces.
I'm especially drawn to David Lyon's Morton Gould-like, multi-movement Partita, and to the surprising melodic twists and turns taken in Malcolm Arnold's jaunty Fantasy. You certainly do not have to be a brass specialist to enjoy this well-engineered recital's strongest works, not to mention Stebleton's dead-of-center intonation, seamless tonal control, and effortless agility. Strongly recommended.
--Jed Distler, ClassicsToday.com
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Works on This Recording
1.
Pieces for Solo Horn: Four Improvisations (from Traveling Impressions): Espana by Vitaly Buyanovsky
Performer:
Michelle Stebleton (Horn)
Date of Recording: 07/1997
Venue: Florida State University Recording Studi
Length: 4 Minutes 34 Secs.
2.
Laudatio, for horn solo by Bernhard Krol
Performer:
Michelle Stebleton (Horn)
Period: Modern
Date of Recording: 07/1997
Venue: Florida State University Recording Studi
Length: 4 Minutes 37 Secs.
3.
Pieces (5), for solo horn by Paul Basler
Performer:
Michelle Stebleton (Horn)
Period: Contemporary
Date of Recording: 07/1997
Venue: Florida State University Recording Studi
Length: 7 Minutes 0 Secs.
4.
The Magic Horn, for solo horn by Ladislav Kubik
Performer:
Michelle Stebleton (Horn)
Period: Contemporary
Date of Recording: 07/1997
Venue: Florida State University Recording Studi
Length: 3 Minutes 59 Secs.
5.
Horn-lokk, for horn & piano by Sigurd Berge
Performer:
Michelle Stebleton (Horn)
Period: Modern
Written: 1972
Date of Recording: 07/1997
Venue: Florida State University Recording Studi
Length: 5 Minutes 41 Secs.
6.
Marathon, for solo horn by Paul Basler
Performer:
Michelle Stebleton (Horn)
Period: Contemporary
Date of Recording: 07/1997
Venue: Florida State University Recording Studi
Length: 5 Minutes 57 Secs.
7.
The Crust Around Emptiness, for solo horn by Lowell Greer
Performer:
Michelle Stebleton (Horn)
Period: Contemporary
Date of Recording: 07/1997
Venue: Florida State University Recording Studi
Length: 6 Minutes 53 Secs.
8.
Fantasy for Horn solo, Op. 88 by Malcolm Arnold
Performer:
Michelle Stebleton (Horn)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1966; England
Date of Recording: 07/1997
Venue: Florida State University Recording Studi
Length: 4 Minutes 1 Secs.
9.
Intrada for solo horn by Otto Ketting
Performer:
Michelle Stebleton (Horn)
Period: Modern
Written: 1958
Date of Recording: 07/1997
Venue: Florida State University Recording Studi
Length: 3 Minutes 46 Secs.
10.
Partita, for solo horn by David Lyon
Performer:
Michelle Stebleton (Horn)
Period: Contemporary
Date of Recording: 07/1997
Venue: Florida State University Recording Studi
Length: 7 Minutes 16 Secs.
11.
Trippery No. 4, for solo horn by Lowell E. Shaw
Performer:
Michelle Stebleton (Horn)
Period: Contemporary
Date of Recording: 07/1997
Venue: Florida State University Recording Studi
Length: 1 Minutes 8 Secs.
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