Round the Horn with Felix Klieser

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French horn player Felix Klieser takes a voyage through the history of his instrument.

French horn player Felix Klieser takes a voyage through the history and around the mechanics of his instrument, celebrating its versatility and adaptability.

Felix Klieser introduces three programmes all about his instrument, the French horn. He looks at how it works, how to play it, and how it has changed over the years, as well as how it has shaped his own life. Despite being born without arms, Felix has become one of the world's most in-demand French horn soloists, wowing BBC Proms audiences earlier this year. He's also a prolific recording artist.

Round the Horn with Felix Klieser: 3. The Further Adventures of the Horn

3. The Further Adventures of the Horn

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French horn player Felix Klieser introduces the third of three programmes all about his instrument. He looks at how it works, how to play it, and how it has changed over the years, as well as how it has shaped his own life. Felix was born without arms, and has become one of the world's most in-demand French horn soloists, wowing BBC Proms audiences earlier this year. He's also a prolific recording artist.

In this final episode, Felix looks to the heroic nature of the French horn, and how that has made it a favourite instrument for film composers. He also shares how film music helped him learn to play the instrument. He listens to how the horn was used in jazz by Miles Davis and Gil Evans, and also explores some of the more unusual techniques in playing, as utilised by composers like Olivier Messiaen and Gilbert Vintner. And he introduces the thirty-two-horned wonder that is the London Horn Sound.

The music includes Wagner’s Ring Cycle and John Williams’s Jurassic Park, two atmospheric elegies from Britten and Ethel Smyth, and virtuosic moments from Ligeti and Messiaen.

Series producer: Sam Hickling

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