Prof Barry Tuckwell

Duration: 31 min 31 sec
Format: MP3

Our guest for this episode is Professor Barry Tuckwell, OBE and AC. Barry is a Professorial Fellow at the Faculty of Music and a triple Grammy nominee.

Barry Tuckwell!|s career in music spans more than 50 years during which he has performed around the world as a soloist, chamber musician and conductor. Born into a distinguished musical family in Melbourne, he joined the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at age 15, and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra before leaving Australia for England at 19.

After playing with the Halle, Scottish National, Bournemouth and London Symphony Orchestras he has concentrated since 1968 on a career as a horn soloist and conductor.

Professor Tuckwell is a former chief conductor with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and founding Music Director of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra.

He continues to have an active international career as a guest conductor, teacher, broadcaster, and giving lectures and masterclasses.

Professor Tuckwell has made more than 50 recordings, and is considered the most recorded horn player.

"I think what distinguishes the horn is the tone colour and the different sorts of moods you can get from the horn. And it is very suitable for sustained music." - Prof Barry Tuckwell

Note: For legal reasons, this episode will not be available as an on-demand stream. It continues to be available as a podcast and as a download. We regret the inconvenience caused.

Useful Information

Suggested listening

Mozart: The Horn Concertos; 2 Rondos
Barry Tuckwell, and English Chamber Orchestra
Decca

Knussen - Horn concerto
Oliver Knussen (Composer, Conductor), London Sinfonietta (Orchestra), Barry Tuckwell (Performer), Clio Gould (Performer), Christopher van Kampen
Deutsche Grammophon

Horn Sonatas
Barry Tuckwell
ABC Classics

Mozart Horn Concertos
Lin Jiang & the West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Barry Tuckwell
ABC Classics

Publications

Horn (Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides) (Paperback)
Barry Tuckwell (Author), Yehudi Menuhin (Preface)
Publisher: Kahn & Averill Publishers; Revised edition (April 1, 2003)
ISBN-10: 1871082420

Mozart Horn Concerto (K.495, No. 4) (Paperback)
by Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Barry Tuckwell (Editor)
Publisher: G. Schirmer; No. 4 edition (2005)
ASIN: B000QB869U

Mozart Horn Concerto (K. 447, No. 3) (Paperback)
by Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Barry Tuckwell (Editor)
Publisher: G. Schirmer; for Horn in F and Piano Reduction edition (2004)
ASIN: B000QB6CM8

Mozart Horn Concerto (K. 417, No. 2) (Paperback)
by Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Barry Tuckwell (Editor)
Publisher: G. Schirmer; Volume 2049 edition (2004)
ASIN: B000QBBDG8

Credits

Excerpts used under license from rights holders

Excerpt from Fantastico from Horn Concerto, Opus 28 by Oliver Knussen
in French Horn Concerto Opus 28 - Oliver Knussen - Deutschegramophon

Excerpt from Don Banks Tro
in Brahms trio, Don Banks Trio, Charles Koechlin Trio - Tudor Records
Courtesy of Tudor Records

3rd movement of the Horn Concerto No. 3 - K447 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
in Mozart French Horn Concertos, Quintet - Decca

Host: Sian Prior
Producers: Kelvin Param, Eric Van Bemmel and Sian Prior
Audio Engineer: Miles Brown
Theme Music performed by Sergio Ercole. Mr Ercole is represented by the Musicians' Agency, Faculty of Music
Voiceover: Paul Richiardi

Series Creators: Eric van Bemmel and Kelvin Param

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