Horn Concerto no. 1 in D major, K412 / Horn Concerto no. 2 in E-flat major, K417 / Horn Concerto no. 3 in E-flat major, K447 / Horn Concerto no. 4 in E flat major, K495 / Rondo in E flat major, K371

Album by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Jeffrey Bryant & Thomas Dausgaard

Mozart's four horn concertos together with an associated rondo are a set of Classical-era works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed in the mid-1780s. Scored for natural horn and small orchestra, they blend lyrical, cantabile melodies with technically demanding passages that exploit the instrument's hunting-era timbres and the clarity of Classical-period orchestration, and they serve as examples of Mozart's instrumental writing for wind soloists during his Viennese period.