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here, http://www.colinscolumn.com/royal-concertgebouw-orchestra-releases-horizon-10-
on-its-own-label/.)

Also included was Knussen’s Horn Concerto (1994), written for Barry Tuckwell and
premiered in Tokyo. It’s a quixotic, restless and fantastical opus, written for a large, subtly
varied, orchestra (including two sets of timpani), the demanding horn solo played by Martin
Owen (BBCSO principal) with bravura, lyrical appreciation and tonal and dynamic resource,
always audible despite the amount of orchestral incident and detail going on, which
contrasts a couple of seismic climaxes with nocturnal fantasy, a winning combination.
As a postscript, I wonder, is there any chance of Knussen’s unfinished Fourth Symphony
(commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and Lorin Maazel) also being played just as
the composer left it?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00188wm

Three selections from Knussen’s Cleveland recording of Stokowski’s version, ‘Promenade 1’;
‘Gnomus’; ‘The Old Castle’: