Czech Horn Concertos

Josef Fiala (1748 - 1816)
Concerto in E Flat Major for Two Horns

František Xaver Pokorny (1729 - 1794)
Concerto in F Major for Two Horns

Francesco Antonio Rosetti (c.1750 - 1792)
Concerto in A Flat Major for Two Horns
Concerto in E Flat Major for Two Horns

Bohemia boasts a long musical history, with achievement at all levels of the art. Of particular distinction were the Bohemian horn-players of the eighteenth century, the first to experiment with the middle and lower register of the instrument, creating notes outside the harmonic series by the insertion of the hand into the bell of the instrument. This technique gave the instrument new possibilities, further increased by other technical developments in Dresden and elsewhere, particularly through the Bohemian player and teacher Carl Haudek and his Prague-born colleague Anton Joseph Hampel, teachers of the Czech Giovanni Punto, bor