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Rondo for horn & orchestra in E flat major (fragment), K. 371 (5:31)
Catalog No. K 371
Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Conductor Kenneth Sillito
Performer Timothy Brown (French Horn)
Orchestra The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Genre Classical Period / Rondo
Date Written 1781
Period Classical
Country Vienna, Austria
Note compl. with discoveries by Marie Rolf (1990), orch. E. Smith.
Timothy Brown – French horn / brass
Timothy Brown has enjoyed a long and varied career as a horn player since his professional debut over fifty years ago (playing Strauss’ First Horn Concerto with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Charles Groves).
He has been a member of several orchestras including the Bournemouth Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields as well as playing as guest principal abroad with orchestras including the Czech Philharmonic, the Valencia Opera and the Orchestra of Cadaquez. He has worked with many distinguished conductors including Igor Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten, Otto Klemperer and Gunther Wand.
He was a member of the Melos Ensemble and has performed and recorded with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble for many years.
As a soloist and chamber player he has performed and recorded much of the horn repertoire on both period and modern instruments. His discography includes two recordings of the complete Mozart horn concertos (on natural and modern horn), concertos by Vivaldi, Bach, Telemann and Haydn as well as chamber music by Mozart, Beethoven, Spohr and, with Ian Bostridge, Schubert and Britten.
In the 1980s Timothy Brown pioneered the use of nodal vents (small holes drilled into the tubing) on the baroque horn in order to improve intonation for modern audiences, a technique now generally adopted internationally in period instrument performances. In the same decade he gained a History of Art degree at London University, which has enhanced his enjoyment visiting art galleries around the world when on concert tours.
Since leaving the BBCSO after twenty years’ service he remains principal horn with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields while pursuing a busy freelance career playing and teaching in Britain and abroad.
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