Unrivaled original
Michael Toepel's arrangement of Mozart's Horn Quintet is not the first.
An arrangement of Mozart's Horn Quintet K. 407 as a trio for violin, horn and piano is only justified as a program addition to the famous Horn Trio op. 40 by Johannes Brahms, although original alternatives to the combination are available: Lennox Berkeley, Don Banks, Charles Koechlin and others. Apart from the fact that a transcription of the Mozart quintet for trio by Carl Ernst Nauman (1832-1910) is already available from the Breitkopf publishing house.
The special, dark sound mixture of the original, horn, violin, 2 violas, violoncello, clearly speaks for the original version.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Trio in E flat after the Horn Quintet KV 407, for violin, horn and piano arranged by Michael Töpel, EM 2157, € 24.00, Edition Merseburger, Kassel
