Mozart’s Horn // TRAIN BRAIN

Mozart’s Horn

The horn that Mozart would have written for - a natural instrument without valves where the notes would be achieved by manipulating the hand in the bell.
Hear the instrument in our concert of Mozart on 5 April at Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Book now: https://oae.co.uk/event/mozart-on-the-road-part-1/

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Ok, it’s a not very snappy name, so we tend to call ourselves the OAE. The OAE is probably one of the top ‘period instrument’ Orchestras in the world. What does this mean? Well, over the years instruments and techniques have changed. We try to be authenti...

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Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - if you heard it in Gloucester cathedral

Introducing the Anton Walter Fortepiano

‘Off the Shelf’ Classical Pick: Martin Lawrence (horn)

‘Off the Shelf’ Classical Pick: Maggie Faultless (violin)

Steven Devine introduces BWV 111 Was mein Gott will, das g'sceh allzeit

The story of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto

The instrument Mozart wrote the clarinet concerto for

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Haydn's liquid salary | Composers' Wine Tales

Steven Devine introduces BWV 132 Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn!

The James Webb Space Telescope with Dhara Patel | Bach, the Universe and Everything

Steven Devine introduces BWV 163 Nur jedem das Seine | Bach, the Universe and Everything

Inside flute player Neil McLaren's jewellery workshop

Flute player Neil McLaren takes us back to 1989

How flute player Neil McLaren got into the Baroque flute

Steven Devine introduces BWV 5 Wo soll ich fliehen hin | Bach, the Universe and Everything

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Three roles, one soprano - with Nardus Williams

What are the musical highlights in Handel’s Solomon?

Introducing soprano Nardus Williams

Handel's 'trouser role' in Solomon

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Why Solomon makes a good season opener with Principal Artist John Butt

First musical memory with flute player Neil McLaren

The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba in 90 seconds

$1,000,000 Guadagnini violin vs $100 violin

A Tribute to Sir Roger Norrington (1934-2025)

How to make a hosepipe horn

Breaking Bach - a meeting between street dancers and Bach

Conductor Natalia Ponomarchuk on the new OAE commissions inspired by Fanny Mendelssohn

TELEMANN: Der Harmonische Gottesdienst for the Second day of Easter

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Mendelssohn's Erard Piano - with Olga Pashchenko

Musical Connections: Arts for Impact Campaign

Take a Beat with Freya Waley-Cohen

Playing Beethoven’s Violin Concerto on gut strings with violinist Vilda Frang

The only instrument that Fanny Mendelssohn was allowed to play as a woman in the 1800s.

Take a Beat with Steven Devine

How we transport large instruments - with Bonzo

Can people recognise Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik from just three notes?

Why is Rebecca Clarke’s Sonata for Viola and Piano still so popular?

Take a Beat with Roxanna Panufnik and Olga Pashchenko

Take a Beat with Electra Perivolaris

Lully’s stick-y end

Q&A with Julia Bullock

Affelia Wibisono on X-Ray Planets

Bruckner’s Horns

Bruckner’s trumpets

The Romantic Period Flute used in Irish traditional music

The expanding bore of the Romantic Trombone

What makes the serpent a brass instrument?

Why Timpanists lean down over the drum

Timpani in the Classical Period | The Evolution of the Timpani: Part 3

Introducing the Double Action Harp

Introducing thre Ophicleide

Introducing the Serpent

Introducing the Baroque Clarinet

A rare 16th Century bow

Introducing Mozart’s Triangle

Introducing the Hybrid Bassoon

Introducing the Baroque Bow

Introducing the Baroque Piccolo Cello

Bach's Easter Oratorio with Peter Whelan

Mozart's Adagio in B flat major, K411

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Mission to Mars with Sanjeev Gupta | Bach, the Universe and Everything

What is a Hemiola?

The unsolved murder case of Italian composer Stradella

Shostakovich on a period xylophone

The Birth of the Keyboard Concerto

Introducing the Lirone

Introducing the Viennese Bass

Why is it called a recorder?

Introducing the Baroque Recorder

Introducing the piston valve horn (with removable valves)

Introducing the piccolo

Introducing the period cornet

The Story of Gilbert & Sullivan's 'Princess Ida, or Castle Adamant' (in about 60 seconds)