Alec Frank-Gemmill
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His virtuosity is remarkable, not only in terms of surmounting the technical challenges that Mozart threw at his favourite horn player, Joseph Leutgeb, but also for the expressive and dynamic... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2025
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One wouldn’t normally expect late-18th-century aristocratic entertainment music to survive the test of time, but this really does speak across the ages…The horn writing is especially ear-catching:... —
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To encounter a programme featuring some of the core works in the horn repertoire played on historically appropriate instruments with such effortless musicianship and technical ease really takes... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Chamber
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Under the incisive direction of Peter Whelan, the group is on ebullient form as it explores the vogue for the French horn in Scotland…Barsanti emerges as a worthy rival to Handel’s festive verve…Renard’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2017
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A delightful and thoughtful debut disc from the Orsino Ensemble...Supplemented by Pavel Kolesnikov’s insightful pianism, the Orsinos draw on its core quintet of leading wind players. The entire... —
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Special offer. Fasch: Quartets and Concertos
Peter Whelan (bassoon), Pamela Thorby (recorder)
Ensemble Marsyas
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Martin Owen plays Strauss, Schumann & Weber
Martin Owen (horn), Chris Parkes (horn), Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), Sarah Willis (horn), BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Wilson
The principal horn of the BBC Symphony Orchestra audibly relishes every moment in the spotlight on this collection of Romantic horn concertos, taking the considerable technical challenges of... —
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Brahms: Chamber Music
Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), Daniel Grimwood (piano), Benjamin Marquise Gilmore (violin)
Fascinating to hear new colours in a familiar work, with Brahms’s First Cello Sonata transcribed for French horn. It makes a fine prelude to a terrific performance of the Horn Trio. —
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Special offer. Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1, Duett-Concertino & Serenade in E flat major
Alec Frank-Gemmill, Robin Ticciati, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Maximiliano Martin, Peter Whelan, SCO Wind Soloists
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Contrasts: Impressions of Hungary
Robert Plane (clarinet), Lucy Gould (violin), David Adams (viola), Alice Neary (cello), Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), Benjamin Frith (piano)
Robert Plane is always inquiring as to repertoire and his new disc surveys almost six decades of Hungarian music…Plane’s musicianship is abetted throughout by that of his colleagues…Collecting... —
