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The pear-shaped bell (called Liebesfuß) of the cor anglais gives it a more covered timbre than the oboe, closer in tonal quality to the oboe d'amore.Whereas the oboe is the soprano instrument of the oboe family, the cor anglais is generally regarded as the alto member of the family, and the oboe d'amore—pitched between the two in the key of A—as the mezzo-soprano member. [5]
A number of concertos and concertante works have been written for cor anglais (English horn) and string, wind, chamber, or full orchestra.. English horn concertos appeared about a century later than oboe solo pieces, mostly because until halfway through the 18th century different instruments (the taille de hautbois, vox humana and the oboe da caccia) had the role of the tenor or alto ...
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English Horn Concerto (Rorem) W. The World's Ransoming This page was last edited on 4 May 2015, at 08:46 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra is a composition for solo English horn and orchestra by the American composer Ned Rorem.The work was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic to commemorate the orchestra's sesquicentennial anniversary.
It cannot rightly be called the precursor of the English horn (the predominant name in North America and German-speaking countries) or cor anglais (the name used in England and France), as it largely developed at the same time as the English horn. The evolution of the English horn is more complex and less straightforward. The da caccia sounds ...
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