English horn
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Pedro R. Díaz played the haunting English horn solos—in costume in the tunnel—embodying the lifelong mourning that torments Tristan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Kathryn Meany Wilson gave a beautiful solo on English horn — tracing the path of a plane through darkness.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022
Kudos to them all, particularly to the eloquent English horn of Stefan Farkas, whose solo passages added so much to the atmosphere of longing and heartbreak.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2022
For the duck, there’s oboe and English horn.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2022
The English horn is also often used in passages where the idea of melancholy and suffering is to be conveyed to the audience.
From Music Notation and Terminology by Karl Wilson Gehrkens
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