Mozart: Hornov koncerty – 2 CD

This recording presents Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts Concertante Symphony for flute, oboe, horn, bassoon and orchestra, K. 297b, concert pieces for horn and strings, twelve duets for two horns, and two horn concertos reconstructed from surviving fragments. Radek Babork performs on horn and conducts, joined by horn player Radovan Vlatkovi, flutist Walter Auer, oboist Clara Dent-Bognyi and bassoonist Bence Bognyi, with the Babork Ensemble. This is not a recording for musicological purists, but an invitation to spontaneous music-making in distinguished company. Babork does not hesitate to adapt an unused symphonic movement to complete the missing sections of an unfinished horn concerto, following a practice Mozart himself used countless times. Two new horn concertos thus emerge from the surviving fragments. The mysterious Concertante Symphony, K. 297b, appears here in Baborks arrangement for Mozarts original instrumentation, with solo parts performed by virtuoso musicians from leading European orchestras. The twelve horn duets, the only completely extant work on the album in its original instrumentation, pair Babork with another contemporary horn legend, Radovan Vlatkovi. Together with his friends, Babork offers a journey into the world of his older colleague Mozart, filled with inexhaustible wit, ideas and colors.