Fiscorn powerful baritone voice has no counterpart, (save perhaps the piston-valved marching baritone), in the organology. The forward-projected sound makes a pair of fiscorns the most suitable two instruments to join the shrill Catalan shawms (tenoras and tibles) and flabiol pipe, together with trumpets and trombone in the outdoor town-square setting where the cobla bands play for sardana dancers. While the instrument is often played by trombonists, its conical nature is easily mastered by tuba or euphonium players. Several instrument manufacturers have attempted to solve the intonational discrepancies of the instrument in recent years, with a varied success. The instrument is
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings the London Symphony Orchestra accompanied. The words or lyrics to each movement are: The day’s grown old; the fainting sun<br> The splendour falls on castle walls<br> O Rose, thou art sick!<br> This ae nighte, this ae nighte,<br> Queen and huntress, chaste and fair,<br> O soft embalmer of the still midnight,<br> Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings The Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31, is a song cycle written in 1943 by English composer Benjamin Britten for tenor accompanied by a solo horn and a small string orchestra. Composed during World War II at the request of the horn