Introducing the Cor Anglais 

And shows emotional colors, and is a excelent solo voice, and can blend or stick out very well from a ensemble.

I have plans to (hopefully) someday write a four movement Quintet for English Horn and Strings in F major. There's not enough chamber music for the instrument IMHO

@@FictionWriter95 why in F?

@@Pogouldangeliwitz firstly because it's the natural key of the English Horn, and secondly because I like F major

@@FictionWriter95 So you're choosing the easy way. I'd write it in B Major... 😇

So good right

@@OboeFiles Yeah, obviously!

And why is the Irish harp Irish?

@@democraticpatriot2657from Ireland

Shouldnt it be easier? I mean, bigger saxophones are easier to sound than smaller ones (I played the bari but tried others). I'm now learning oboe and finding it the hardest in terms of air pressure. And I tried bassoon years ago, found it quite easy to sound. It should be somewhere in between

I agree ; ) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gvOE-JNeydE.html

Super odd. But... that's not music from the Age of Enlightenment, which might explain...

The great solos by Sibelius, Berlioz, Ravel, Shostakovich all deserved a mention too but there just wasn't time, sadly. And, by the way, all the above composers have been featured in OAE programmes!

Oh! I was wondering why I was expecting a bunch of bagpipes to kick in after that phrase. Dvorak I haven't heard a great deal, but pipe bands, yes.

@@LordJazzly Well, sometimes links don't work in comments but I'm going to try: Other than the initial tuning phrase, for anyone interested here is the Piobaireachd called Mackintosh Lament played by the late Donald MacPherson. Hopefully y'all can hear the connection the "ground" theme has with the Largo movement. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_l1PULVdoQo.html

@@LordJazzly Well, sometimes links don't work in comments but I'm going to try: Other than the initial tuning phrase, for anyone interested here is the Piobaireachd called Mackintosh Lament played by the late Donald MacPherson. Hopefully y'all can hear the connection the "ground" theme has with the Largo movement. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_l1PULVdoQo.html

@@LordJazzly So I HATE the fact RU-vid won't let you put links in comments (F.U. RU-vid!!!!) but just look up Mackintosh Lament played by the late Donald MacPherson. Hopefully y'all can hear the connection the "ground" theme has with the Largo movement. Of course, other than the initial tuning phrase of course, which professional pipers use all the time.

So I HATE the fact RU-vid won't let you put links in comments (F.U. RU-vid!!!!) but just look up Mackintosh Lament played by the late Donald MacPherson. Hopefully y'all can hear the connection the "ground" theme has with the Largo movement. Of course, other than the initial tuning phrase of course, which professional pipers use all the time.

My favourite Cor Anglais solo!

@@leoduarte1306 Mine also Mr Duarte, it's wonderful 👍🏼👍🏼

I'm a classically trained flautist, and I've always loved the double reeds. Always wanted to learn. But I'm an old man, and I'm limited by finances to the flutes and recorder families

He's probably wrong on the old French, but he's correct in the old (and modern) German, so the resulting conclusion is still linguistically valid.

@@ThomasDawkins88 As we logicians say: e falso sequitur ad quodlibet. Cheers!

That was exactly my thought. But, then I was wondering if they made an editing mistake, because he says that in the manuscript it's called "corne d'Anglois or corno angelico", yet we only see the French term. Is there a part of the score where it also says 'corno angelico' in Italian...?

Hi Jean, ​ you're quite right to pull me up on that, and thank you Henrik for the benefit of the doubt. Sorry that statement is unclear - I hadn't meant to imply that "angelico" was a translation of "anglois", though there is indeed a manuscript [Milling's Concerto in E-flat c.1770], albeit not the one shown in the video, where the title page reads: "Concerto. / á / Cornu Angelico. / Due Violini. / Viola obligato. / Col. / Baßo" but the solo part from the same set reads: "Cornu Anglois. Conc:". There is also another possible explanation for "Anglois" which time constraints made it impossible to mention. It is possible that "Anglois" was a general term used to describe more unusual instruments with possible parallels for instruments like "viole inglese"which were exotic types of viola d'amore or viola da gamba used in Italy. In this case the qualifier could be translated as English but the meaning might be closer to "outlandish"!

You're quite right in that that's the strongest argument. Such a shame that Mozart didn't complete the work.

Given the time period, Clarinets being the bright hip new thing around 1790, with a virtuoso player available being a personal friend and literally the next piece in the repertoire being the clarinet quintet kv581, there is no doubt in my mind that kv580 was meant for clarinet(s).

"Anglois" is ancient French for "english".

Composers usually write for it in the treble clef (G2 clef) as a transposing instrument, so a written C would actually sound F, a perfect fifth lower. However, in some early manuscripts (eg JS Bach, though not always), composers used to write for the instrument in the alto clef (C3 clef).

@@leoduarte1306 Thank you, this clears up confusion

I’m going to start calling it that henceforth. I suggest you and others do likewise. 😜

Dear Oboe Files, So sorry, please could you provide us with the credit info and we will get that added to the description right away. Many thanks, OAE

As a recorder player, these altissimo (2 octaves above lowest notes) are painful

@@CheukTheGreatestOfEverything If you can hit 'em and hold 'em at will you're way ahead of the game!

I think they simply took the spelling with double L and an extra E from some old manuscript, without consulting the Duden... ;)

yeah, but the point is that it was at the time.