Zauberhaftes Horn – Das Meisterwerk by Britten, Haydn, dim. 03 mars 2024, Du (2024/2024), Chef d'orchestre Christoph Poppen, Kölner Philharmonie, Cologne, Allemagne

While the first of the two concertos was composed by Joseph Haydn for the high horn , the second features the low horn player. Although most horn players specialize in one variant or the other, Felix Klieser plays both. He loves the challenge because “it allows him to showcase the full tonal richness of his instrument ,” enthuses Klieser, who expressed his desire to play the horn at the age of four . Since he was born without arms, he operates the valves on his instrument with his toes. Today, Klieser, with his warm, wonderfully soft sound, is one of the best in his field. The fact that Haydn attached special importance to the horn can also be seen in the unusual sound effects in one of his few symphonies composed in a minor key. Benjamin Britten wrote his “Elegy” when he was 14 years old, and his last highly virtuoso work for strings, the “Prelude and Fugue,” was written in the USA during the Second World War.