BBC Music Magazine

Felix Klieser’s top albums

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Five recordings to explore

Beyond Words (2021)

CHAARTS Chamber Artists

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Together with members of the world’s leading string quartets, Klieser performs a series of horn transcript­ions of Baroque arias by Bach, Vivaldi, Handel and Gluck. Mozart Horn Concertos (2019) Camerata Salzburg

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Klieser performs Mozart’s concertos, works that are at the heart of the instrument’s repertoire. Horn Trios (2017)

With Andrej Bielow (violin) and Herbert Schuch (piano)

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Brahms’s much-loved Horn Trio is performed here alongside lesserperf­ormed trios by Duvernoy, Koechlin and Kahn, showcasing

100 years of horn compositio­n. Concertos by Joseph

& Michael Haydn (2015)

Württember­g Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn/ruben Gazarian

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‘Klieser’s tone is resonant and robust and his command of longbreath­ed phrasing and agile work equally impressive,’ wrote our critic Bayan Northcott of this recording, which also includes pieces by Mozart. Reveries (2013)

With Christof Keymer (piano)

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A selection of works for the horn and piano from the Romantic era, a period of musical history that placed the horn front and centre, exploiting its full palette of colours.

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