FRANZ ANTON HOFFMEISTER (1754-1812): Horn Quintet in E Flat, WILHELM GOTTLIEB HAUFF (1755-1807): Horn Quintet in E Flat, WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791): Horn Quintet in E Flat, K. 407, MOZART/ MICHAEL HAYDN (1737-1806): Romance for Horn and String Quartet in A Flat, K. 447, LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827): Sextet for 2 Horns and String Quartet in E Flat, Op. 81.

Description: Horn collectors will find about 20 minutes of new music here - the Hauff and Hoffmeister are both three-movement works with one movement missing. Hauff's in Mozartian Viennese Classical style, Hoffmann adding more elements of the horn's original signalling and hunting purpose in his finale. (The anonymous translator [who's bad enough in general] calls the horn "bugle" when the word for the instrument in both German and English is "horn" - helping keep Capriccio's notes the worst translated ones from any label with regular releases.) Nury Guarnaschelli (horn), Signum Quartet.