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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Fiona Maddocks

Classical home listening: Sarah Willis: Mozart y Mambo: Cuban Dances; Alison Balsom: Quiet City

French horn player Sarah Willis with the Havana Lyceum Orchestra.
Sarah Willis with the Havana Lyceum Orchestra. Photograph: pr shot
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• Sarah Willis, a member of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra since 2001 and the orchestra’s first female brass player, has triumphed variously in many directions, as TV presenter and chamber musician, as well as being a persuasive champion of the french horn. Two years ago she teamed up with musicians in Havana. The result was their joyful collaboration, Mozart y Mambo, in which she and the band played Mozart alongside traditional Cuban music. Now a second disc is out: Mozart y Mambo: Cuban Dances (Alpha Classics), with the Havana Lyceum Orchestra and conductor José Antonio Méndez Padrón.

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