Sokół

This collection of French horn music offers a variety of solos for the horn player. Its material ranges from the seventeenth century Kirchen Arie of Stradella to the contemporary Largo and Allegro by Frackenpohl. A great deal of French horn music is written to bring out the romantic and lyric nature of the instrument. While music of this type is included here, I have added some Scherzi of Beethoven and Brahms, who utilized so effectively the fanfare-like aspect of the horn. Old friends such as Glazunov and Dukas are present as well as some new ones - Lefebvre and Labor. Each composer selected has an original, personal gift in writing for the instrument, but whether the music in slow and contemplative or brash and shouting, the poetry of the horn is always evideent. This gamut of expression is latent in this collection and is ready to be recreated by the player. I wish to thank Mr. Vlamir Sokoloff for his valuable assistance in preparing some of the piano parts. Mason Jones

Aram Chaczaturian (ur. 6 czerwca 1903 w Tbilisi, zm. 1 maja 1978 w Moskwie) to kompozytor muzyki poważnej, pedagog i dyrygent pochodzenia ormiańskiego. Wykształcenie muzyczne zdobył w konserwatorium w Moskwie pod kierunkiem M. Gniesina i N. Miaskowskiego. Do najbardziej znanych utworów z jego dorobku należy "Taniec z szablami" z baletu "Gajane". Publikacja "Dźwięki z dzieciństwa" to kolekcja dziesięciu miniatur dla zaawansowanych pianistów, wśród nich m. in.: "Good-Night Story" i "Rhythmic Gymnastics".

Op. 5: "[...] I send You my Mazurka, the one that you know about, later you might receive another, [...]. It's now out in the world; meanwhile my Rondo, that I wanted to have lithographed, which is earlier and so has the greater right to travel, I smother among my papers. - Its fate resembles my own."
From a letter by F. Chopin to Jan Białobłocki in Sokołów, Warsaw 8 January 1827.

Lista utworów:
Rondo c-moll op. 1 (Chopin Fryderyk)
Rondo F-dur op. 5 (Chopin Fryderyk)
Rondo Es-dur op. 16 (Chopin Fryderyk)