Fanfare Magazine Reviews
This is a fabulous, collaborative performance, truly the spirit of chamber music from all concerned. Mi-Eun Kim is a fleet-fingered pianist, able to move between soloist and accompanist roles in the twinkle of an eye. - Colin Clarke, 2022
Besides his role as teacher and composer, Horne is an extensively published scholar specializing in Beethoven and Brahms. Although he has developed his own voice, in which I hear no trace of Beethoven, the Romantic aura of Brahms shines through all four works on the program. Mozart and Beethoven provided inspired precedents for a quintet for piano and winds, which is how Horne set out. The model he had in mind used a flute instead of an oboe, but soon he realized that he couldn’t do without an oboe, too, and his Sextet for Piano and Winds was the outcome. It’s surprising how much more expansive the resulting sonority is. Color combinations are provided by using instruments in pairs and trios. One notes that Horne’s melodic bent is for the pastoral and elegiac, even in Allegro movements. Like Brahms, he assigns the most demanding part to the pianist (here the talented Mi-Eun Kim); if one were looking for influences, the constantly moving piano reminds me as much of Fauré as Brahms. - Huntley Dent, 2022
Besides his role as teacher and composer, Horne is an extensively published scholar specializing in Beethoven and Brahms. Although he has developed his own voice, in which I hear no trace of Beethoven, the Romantic aura of Brahms shines through all four works on the program. Mozart and Beethoven provided inspired precedents for a quintet for piano and winds, which is how Horne set out. The model he had in mind used a flute instead of an oboe, but soon he realized that he couldn’t do without an oboe, too, and his Sextet for Piano and Winds was the outcome. It’s surprising how much more expansive the resulting sonority is. Color combinations are provided by using instruments in pairs and trios. One notes that Horne’s melodic bent is for the pastoral and elegiac, even in Allegro movements. Like Brahms, he assigns the most demanding part to the pianist (here the talented Mi-Eun Kim); if one were looking for influences, the constantly moving piano reminds me as much of Fauré as Brahms. - Huntley Dent, 2022