Post by tonyloco on Jan 18, 2020 12:40:41 GMT
The Australian French-horn player Barry Tuckwell has died, aged 88. He had a very distinguished career in classical music as a soloist and orchestral player in the UK and internationally.
I also remember EMI Classics made a brief but unsuccessful attempt to establish Tuckwell as a celebrity soloist in the manner of the Irish flautist James Galway but this would require him doing crossover repertoire and that just didn't work. EMI made one album called A Sure Thing of Tuckwell playing Jerome Kern songs arranged by Richard Rodney Bennett which was excellent but it didn't capture the public imagination, possibly because Tuckwell lacked the personality to win public recognition the way Galway did outside the classical field.
I also remember EMI Classics made a brief but unsuccessful attempt to establish Tuckwell as a celebrity soloist in the manner of the Irish flautist James Galway but this would require him doing crossover repertoire and that just didn't work. EMI made one album called A Sure Thing of Tuckwell playing Jerome Kern songs arranged by Richard Rodney Bennett which was excellent but it didn't capture the public imagination, possibly because Tuckwell lacked the personality to win public recognition the way Galway did outside the classical field.
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