Howard Wall: Horn Monologues
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.AF2002

By Howard Wall. By Alice Gomez, Astor Piazzolla, Charles Koechlin, David Amram, Elizabeth Raum, Elliott Carter, Erika Raum, Georges Barboteu, Laura Kaminsky, Lev Kogan, Lydia Lowery Busler, Pascal Proust, Phillip Ramey, Stoyan Karaivanov, Traditional Bulgarian, and Zsolt Nagy. Instrumental. Classical. CD. Naxos #AF2002. Published by Naxos (NX.AF2002).

UPC: 888295977456.

A longtime member of two of the world's most renowned orchestras - The New York Philharmonic and The Philadelphia Orchestra, hornist Howard Wall also performs and records with the All-Star Orchestra, and is an avid chamber music proponent. Among the 19 tracks in his solo album Horn Monologues, 10 are world-premiere recordings. This is a kaleidoscopic collection of eclectic styles and genres ranging from Charles Koechlin's refined impressionism and Elliott Carter's sophisticated modernism, to Phillip Ramey's Bartokian reflections, Erika Raum's virtuosic tone poem, Astor Piazzolla's melancholic tango mood, David Amram's blues dedicated to Thelonious Monk, the unabashedly jazzy tunes of Zsolt Nagy, the poetic inspirations of Georges Barboteu, the otherworldly mysticism of Alice Gomez, the profound emotion of Lev Kogan's Kaddish prayer, the stunning beauty and unique rhythms of Bulgarian folk music and Venezuelan joropo.