Another rare find from the SABC Radio Archives: Melanie Horne and Lamar Crowson teaming up in Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos, K. 365. The Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra (then Cape Town Symphony Orchestra) is conducted by Wolfgang Bothe in this recording, originally broadcast on 20 October 1991 (I’m not 100% sure of the performance date). […]
Nagmusiek (Night Music) by Arnold van Wyk, performed by Melanie Horne
A very important South African piano work, Arnold van Wyk’s “Nagmusiek” (Night Music) was composed in 1958. In another rare recording found in the SABC Radio Archives, Melanie Horne performs the piece in what seems to have been a 1983 radio broadcast, as part of the Artes Radio Awards, for which she was nominated as […]
Melanie Horne: Temmingh Piano Concerto
Once a year on the anniversary of her death, I normally gush a bit on Facebook about Melanie Horne. Melanie was one of the greatest influences on my artistic life. Gone way too soon, she died tragically on 14 Feb 1998, her body suddenly rejecting the heart she received in a successful heart transplant a […]