Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 1999-07-23 20:57
To the list, let me add Josef Horak. He put out a bunch of remarkable records on Suprafon and related labels, some of which are being reissued. There's nothing he can't play - the Martinu Sonata, Abimes des Oiseaux, etc. He's had probably a hundred new works written for him.
He tours with his wife, an excellent pianist, as the Duo Boehmi di Praga.
I met him at the International Clarinet Congress in London several years ago and took a couple of lessons. I learned most just listening to him play. A very sweet personality. He told me that he played the Hindemith Bassoon Sonata on bass clarinet and afterward, Hindemith, who was in the audience, came up and told him he now preferred to hear the sonata on the B.C., at least when Horak played it.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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