Argentine horn player Nury Guarnaschelli made her career primarily in Germany and she has played with many leading European orchestras. Her first solo album featured contemporary concertos for horn and chamber orchestra, and on this release she plays quintets for horn and strings from the Classical era, plus the Beethoven sextet for two horns and strings. Guarnaschelli plays a modern valve horn, so listeners who require their music from this era played on natural horns should be forewarned. She plays with unimpeachable ...
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Argentine horn player Nury Guarnaschelli made her career primarily in Germany and she has played with many leading European orchestras. Her first solo album featured contemporary concertos for horn and chamber orchestra, and on this release she plays quintets for horn and strings from the Classical era, plus the Beethoven sextet for two horns and strings. Guarnaschelli plays a modern valve horn, so listeners who require their music from this era played on natural horns should be forewarned. She plays with unimpeachable technique; a lovely, round, Germanic tone; and a seamless, velvety legato. She and the Signum Quartet approach the material with respect for the conventions of the period in terms of ornamentation and use of vibrato. Their playing may not be sufficiently restrained and their use of rubato may be a little too free for period performance purists, but general audiences should find their playing attractive. The Mozart quintet is an especially appealing piece, musically on par with the horn...
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