I was first introduced to Haydn's Divertimento a Tre when my teacher - Aksel Strøm - performed it on a faculty recital at the youth orchestra festival where I was a student in the mid-eighties. As I was only a teenager, I didn't know exactly how impressive this performance was. Aksel joked around afterwards about how the piece covered a full four octaves (and if I remember correctly, there wasn't even one note missed..), but as he was in the habit of demonstrating even a fu

This is one should not come as a surprise: The horn-player who managed to capture the imagination of so many music lovers certainly deserves my attention as well. I obviously knew the name Dennis Brain for years, but it was not really until I started studying with Odd Ulleberg in Oslo, Norway, that I got intensely curious about the great British horn player. My respect for Odd was immense, and when he would constantly reference Dennis Brain's recordings in lessons and conv