Beyond Beethoven: Works for natural horn & fortepiano Sacred Choral Music when he was already well-known

when he was already well-known in Vienna as a remarkable and ambitious composer

Ars Lusitana

Thomas Elwin (tenor)

this rare recording champions viol consort pieces from some of the greatest German

Ana Mafaldo Castro (harpsichord)

Beyond Beethoven: Works for natural horn & fortepiano Sacred Choral Music when he was already well-knownAnneke Scott (natural horn) Steven Devine (fortepiano) Premiered in 1800, Beethovens Sonata in F major, Op. 17 for piano and horn signalled the beginning of an explosion in works for piano and horn duo in the early part of the nineteenth century. Many composers were to follow in the footsteps of the great master in exploiting the versatility and variety of the natural horn in the years that followed. Beyond Beethoven explores four works by close