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Soloist
As a soloist, Grammy Award winner Dale Clevenger is in demand throughout the world. He
has performed with the Chicago Symphony every year since joining the
orchestra in 1966. He has appeared as soloist with orchestras
worldwide, including the
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under
Daniel
Barenboim. He has participated in many music festivals, including
the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival; the
Florida Music Festival in
Sarasota; the
Marrowstone Music Festival in
Bellingham, Washington; and the
Affinis Music Festival in Japan.
He has also performed in
Italy, Spain,
Germany, Belgium, Austria,
Switzerland, Finland, Norway,
Japan, China, Australia,
Mexico, Canada, and Israel.
Dale Clevenger is the featured soloist on several CSO recordings,
including works by Martin, Schumann, Britten, and Mozart. He also
played on the Grammy Award–winning recording
The Antiphonal Music of
Gabrieli with the brass ensembles of the
Chicago,
Philadelphia, and Cleveland orchestras. He has recorded the horn
concertos by Joseph and Michael Haydn with the
Franz Liszt Chamber
Orchestra of Budapest, as well as all of Mozart’s horn concertos.
The Mozart recording was named Record of the Year in Hungary, and both recordings were
nominated for Grammy awards. Clevenger also performed with Barenboim
and colleagues from the CSO and the Berlin Philharmonic in
Chicago
and Berlin
on the Grammy-winning CD of quintets for piano and winds by Mozart
and Beethoven. With Barenboim and
Itzhak Perlman, he recorded
Brahms’s Horn Trio for HD TV, laser disc, and Sony Classical CD. He
performed on the Tribute to Ellington CD with Barenboim and other members of the CSO.
Solos
Recorded by Dale Clevenger
Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Janos Rolla
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Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Janos Rolla
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Daniel Barenboim
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Horn Concerto No. 3 in E flat major, K. 447
Conducted by Claudio Abbado
Allegro
Romance. Larghetto
Allegro
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Robert Schumann
Konzertstück for 4 horns & orchestra in F
major, Op. 86
Soloists Dale Clevenger, Thomas Howell,
Norman Schweikert, Richard Oldberg
Conducted by Daniel Barenboim
Lebhaft
Romanze. Ziemlich langsam doch nicht
schleppend
Sehr lebhaft
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Benjamin Britten
Serenade, for tenor, horn & strings, Op. 31
Soloists Dale Clevenger, Robert Tear
Conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini
Prologue. Andante
Pastoral. Lento "The Day's grown Old"
Nocturne. Maestoso "The splendor falls on
castle walls"
Elegy. Andante appassionato "O, rose, thou
art sick"
Dirge. Alla marcia grave "This ae nighte,
every nighte"
Hymn. Presto e leggiero "Queen and hantress,
chaste and fair"
Sonnet. Adagio "O soft embalmer of the still
midnight"
Epilogue. Andante
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Written for Dale Clevenger
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John Williams
Concerto for Horn (Angelus, Battle of Trees,
Pastorale, Hunt, Nocturne)
premiered in 2004 |
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Dale Clevenger as Conductor/Soloist
Other concertos
Richard Strauss - Horn Concerto No. 2 in
E-flat major, AV132
Reinhold Glière - Horn Concerto in B, Op. 91
Paul Hindemith - Horn Concerto
