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Reinhold Glière’s Concerto for Horn and Orchestra, Op. 91, is a three-movement concerto in B-flat major for solo horn and orchestra. The concerto was completed in 1951 and written for the Russian horn player Valery Polekh. Polekh later recalled that the first performance took place on 10 May 1951 in Leningrad, with Glière present at the rehearsal and premiere.
Stylistically, the work belongs to Glière’s late, highly melodic idiom: it is warmly lyrical, strongly tonal, and broadly Romantic in character, despite being a mid-20th-century concerto. The horn has a singing, assertive role throughout, with the concerto balancing bravura writing and expansive melodic lines rather than treating the instrument in a sharply modernist way.
- Instrumentation:
- 3Fl, 2Ob, 2Cl, 2Bsn, 3Hn, 2Tpt, 3Tbn, Tba, Timp, Perc, Hp, Strings
- Duration:
- ca. 26 minutes
- Set of Parts:
- Includes Strings count 4.4.3.3.2
- Extra Strings:
- Only available with the purchase of the Set of Parts
- Product Type:
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