Annamia Eriksson plays the long call from Richard Wagner's Siegfried on a double horn. Annamia Eriksson was born in Sweden 1980 and is since 2002 co-principal in the Horn section at the Royal Opera in Stockholm, Sweden. This video was recorded there. Despite the introduction of valves, the single F horn proved difficult for use in the highest range, where the partials grew closer and closer, making accuracy a great challenge. An early solution was simply to use a horn of higher pitch -- usually B-flat. The double horn combines two instruments into a single frame: the original horn in F, and a second, higher horn keyed in B-flat. By using a fourth valve (operated by the thumb), the horn player can quickly switch from the deep, warm tones of the F horn to the higher, brighter tones of the B-flat horn. |
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