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"The main performer here is John Cerminaro, a former principal horn player with the Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics. He seems to have a troupe of acrobats in his lips. He plays music requiring unbelievable agility: quick leaps between registers, chords created by humming at an interval with played notes, skittering fast notes. Difficult horn music is not just screaming: Mr. Cerminaro spins out impressively long lines in Schumann’s Adagio and Allegro, demonstrating prodigious control. Other works here are by the contemporary composers William Kraft, Rand Steiger and Henri Lazarof."
Daniel J. Wakin, NEW YORK TIMES
Fanfare (5-6/98, p.257) - "Whatever is lurking in the
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schedules for the remainder of the year, this disc must surely win the prize for the most bizarre collection of 1998....the disc leaves no doubt that John Cerminaro is one of the great horn players of our time, totally in command of his instrument..."
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Works on This Recording
1.
Adagio and Allegro for Horn and Piano in A flat major, Op. 70 by Robert Schumann
Performer:
John Cerminaro (French Horn),
Zita Carno (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1849; Germany
2.
Evening Voluntaries by William Kraft
Performer:
John Cerminaro (French Horn)
Period: 20th Century
Written: USA
3.
Divertimento for Horn, Violin and Cello in E flat major, H 4 no 5 by Franz Joseph Haydn
Performer:
Charlotte Cerminaro (French Horn),
Maria Larionoff (Violin),
Toby Saks (Cello)
Period: Classical
Written: 1767; Eszterhazá, Hungary
4.
Hexadecathlon by Rand Steiger
Performer:
John Cerminaro (French Horn)
Conductor:
Stephen L. Mosko
Orchestra/Ensemble:
California EAR Unit
Period: 20th Century
5.
Intrada for Horn by Henri Lazarof
Performer:
John Cerminaro (French Horn)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1994; USA
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