The Hammock Papers: horn

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07 July 2026

Happy Birthday, Gustav Mahler

It is peculiar, but as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.

Gustav Mahler, born on this day in 1860

Bernard Haitink conducts the Berlin Philarmoniker in the 3rd Symphony's horn introduction, f,the first time in my dog-walking mix, featuring the heroic horns of Norbert Hauptmann, Fergus McWilliam, Klaus Wallendorf, Stefan Dohr, Stefan de Leval Jezierski, and Manfred Klier ...

25 February 2026

Excellent.

An excellent album ...

28 October 2025

Excellent.

An excellent album ...

You know what day it is.

17 February 2025

Corelli, Sonata da Chiesa, Op.3, No. 7

Sarah Willis, horn, Tamás Velenczei, trumpet, and Jesper Busk Sørensen, euphonium, perform ...

08 December 2024

Mozart, Horn Concerto No. 4, K. 495

Sarah Willis performs the Rondo with some other people ...

19 September 2024

Excellent.

An excellent album ...

30 June 2024

Barber, Summer Music for Woodwind Quintet, Op. 31

Performed by the University of Michigan Bassoon Studio members Amy Porter, flute, Nancy Ambrose King, oboe, Chad Burrow, clarinet, Jeffrey Lyman, bassoon and Adam Unsworth, horn ...

27 January 2024

Happy Birthday, Mozart

Lange, Mozart, 1782

It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born on this day in 1756

Katy Woolley, horn, Bogdan Bozovic, violin, Mark Holloway and Rosalind Ventris, violas, and James Barralet, cello, perform the Horn Quintet E flat K407 ...

19 January 2024

Telemann, Concerto in F-Major for Two Horns, TWV 52:F3

Ars Lyrica performs ...

06 July 2023

Bach, Cello Suite No.2 in D minor, BWV 1008

Radek Baborák performs on the horn ...

22 February 2023

Wagner, Siegfried, WWV 86

Zoltán Szőke performs the horn call ...

07 January 2023

Arnold, Fantasy for Horn, Op. 88

James Patterson performs ...

25 September 2022

Wagner, Siegfried

Anneke Scott performs the "Long Call" from Act II ...

'Tis Autumn.

01 September 2022

Punto, Horn Concerto No. 7 in E-Flat Major

Adéla Turek performs with the Pribram Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Veronika Kopecká ...

05 June 2022

Beethoven, Horn Sonata, Op.17

"As you see, of course," Dennis Brain performs, with Dennis Matthews accompanying ...

11 March 2022

Jazzmeia Horn, "Free Your Mind"

With Keith Brown, piano, Russell Carter, drums, and Kris Funn, bass ...

30 January 2022

Wagner, Siegfried, WWV 86C

Annamia Eriksson plays the horn call from Act Two ...

11 August 2021

Telemann, Concerto in F Major for Two Horns, TWV 52/F3

Ars Lyrica performs ...

28 September 2020

Glière, Concerto for Horn and Orchestra in B-flat major, Op. 91

Radek Baborák performs Hermann Baumann's cadenza ...

Goodnight.

07 May 2020

Happy Birthday, Brahms

Johannes Brahms was born on this date in 1833.

Dale Clevenger, Itzhak Perlman, and Daniel Barenboim perform the Horn Trio in E♭ major, Op. 40 ,,,

Andante

Scherzo: Allegro

Adagio mesto

Allegro con brio

BARRY HINES

"That's why it makes me mad when I take her out and I'll hear somebody say, 'Look, there's Billy Casper there wi' his pet hawk. I could shout at 'em; it's not a pet, Sir, hawks are not pets. Or when folks stop me and say, 'Is it tame?' Is it heck tame, it's trained that's all. It's fierce, and it's wild, an' it's not bothered about anybody, not even about me, right. And that's why it's great.Look, there's Billy Casper there wi' his pet hawk.' I could shout at 'em. It's not a pet, Sir. Hawks are not pets. Or when folks stop me and say, 'Is it tame?' Is it heck tame, it's trained, that's all. It's fierce, and it's wild, an' it's not bothered about anybody, not even about me right. And that's why it's great." (A Kestrel for a Knave)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

"When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone and of good cheer – say travelling in a carriage or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep – it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence, and how, they come I know not ; nor can I force them. Those ideas that please me I retain in memory and am accustomed, as I have been told, to hum them to myself. If I continue in this way, it soon occurs to me how I may turn this dainty morsel to account, so as to make a good dish of it. That is to say, agreeable to the rules of counterpoint, to the peculiarities of various instruments etc. All this fires my soul, and, provided I am not disturbed, my subject enlarges itself, becomes methodised, and defined, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it like a fine picture or a beautiful statue at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What a delight this is, I cannot tell."

WALT WHITMAN

The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow’d wilds, It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk. I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags. I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.

MARCUS AURELIUS

"Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?' neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility."

VINCENT van GOGH

"What am I in the eyes of most people? A nonentity or an oddity or a disagreeable person — someone who has and will have no position in society, in short a little lower than the lowest. Very well — assuming that everything is indeed like that, then through my work I’d like to show what there is in the heart of such an oddity, such a nobody. This is my ambition, which is based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Even though I’m often in a mess, inside me there’s still a calm, pure harmony and music. In the poorest little house, in the filthiest corner, I see paintings or drawings. And my mind turns in that direction as if with an irresistible urge. As time passes, other things are increasingly excluded, and the more they are the faster my eyes see the picturesque. Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and unceasing observation."