Ab Koster

Mark Shaw

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Jun 3, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/3/96

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I recently picked up three Haydn symphonies played by Tafelmusik. On
the cover Ab Koster is credited as one of the two horn players. Inside
is a picture of the orchestra, and a lady is shown as a horn player. I
wonder if anyone can confirm Ab is a woman- I am just curious.

I do not know anything about Tafelmusik but the record (Symphonies no
44,51 & 52) gets a strong recommendation from me (amateur English
player, for what that's worth!).

Any feedback would be appreciated.
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Michael Wall

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Jun 3, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/3/96

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In article <31b33f12...@news.demon.co.uk> ma...@kaisun.demon.co.uk (Mark Shaw) writes:
>From: ma...@kaisun.demon.co.uk (Mark Shaw)
>Subject: Ab Koster
>Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 20:23:04 GMT

I'm not 100% sure whether Ab Koster is a male or female. However, as of a few
years ago, one of the horn players in Tafelmusik was a woman - Theresa Wasiak
Franklin.

Michael Wall
Vancouver Symphony

ArtMuses

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Jun 3, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/3/96

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I know not Ab Koster's gender but s/he is a terrific hornplayer. Listen
to her/him play in the reconstructed version of the Mozart Sinfonia
Concertante (with Jean-Pierre Rampal) now available on CD. Wow!

Richard V. West
Seattle

Han-Wen Nienhuys

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Jun 4, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/4/96

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In article <31b33f12...@news.demon.co.uk>,

Mark Shaw <ma...@kaisun.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>I recently picked up three Haydn symphonies played by Tafelmusik. On
>the cover Ab Koster is credited as one of the two horn players. Inside
>is a picture of the orchestra, and a lady is shown as a horn player. I
>wonder if anyone can confirm Ab is a woman- I am just curious.

No, he is not. That is, I have listened to a recording of the Mozart
concertos by Ab Koster on natural horn, and the photograph on the CD booklet
looked pretty male to me.

I am not sure if he german or dutch, but I do know that is a member of the
Dutch Horn Society

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Han-Wen Nienhuys, han...@stack.urc.tue.nl
http://www.stack.urc.tue.nl/~hanwen

Charlie Turner

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Jun 4, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/4/96

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In <31b33f12...@news.demon.co.uk>, ma...@kaisun.demon.co.uk (Mark Shaw) writes:

I recently picked up three Haydn symphonies played by Tafelmusik. On
>the cover Ab Koster is credited as one of the two horn players. Inside
>is a picture of the orchestra, and a lady is shown as a horn player. I
>wonder if anyone can confirm Ab is a woman- I am just curious.

No. I met Mr. Koster at the K.C. IHS workshop in '94. He performed in a
Koncertstuk (sp?) horn quartet plus played a short rectial.

It was interesting hearing him talk about his recording. He said it's nice
recording for a big operation like Sony because the have the means to
produce a high quality recording, ie. they have no need to cut corners
in any way.

There has been some talk about triple horns in this newsgroup recently.
Mr. Koster was playing his E. Schmid triple horn at that IHS workshop.

Mark Shaw

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Jun 4, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/4/96

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On 3 Jun 1996 21:07:53 -0400, artm...@aol.com (ArtMuses) wrote:

>I know not Ab Koster's gender but s/he is a terrific hornplayer. Listen
>to her/him play in the reconstructed version of the Mozart Sinfonia
>Concertante (with Jean-Pierre Rampal) now available on CD. Wow!

Any idea what record label this is on- I agree that he is a fine
player and would like to hear more.
Thanks for the interest.

Mark Shaw

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Jun 4, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/4/96

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On 4 Jun 1996 16:44:06 +0200, han...@stack.urc.tue.nl (Han-Wen
Nienhuys) wrote:

>No, he is not. That is, I have listened to a recording of the Mozart
>concertos by Ab Koster on natural horn, and the photograph on the CD booklet
>looked pretty male to me.

Thats good enough for me.

>I am not sure if he german or dutch, but I do know that is a member of the
>Dutch Horn Society

Thanks for the interest.
BTW if anyone is interested in Philharmonia recordings- I've just
aquired a 1952 recording of Bruckner 4 (Shalk edition) with Dennis on
first. It is a fine transfer by British label Testament. One point of
note ( 8:-) ) I believe Dennis splits a note in the last movement!
Pretty rare event- even the God's have off days.

It's nice to see horn players on Usenet- I'm the only one I can find
in my neck of the world.

PIZKAHANS

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Jun 17, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/17/96

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Ab Koster is male off course. Read THE HORNCALL of the IHS. Sometimes you
can see his picture.

Hans Pizka
piz...@aol.com
or
10052...@compuserve.com