Editing Cor anglais (section)

===Solos in orchestral works and dramas===
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The English horn's timbre makes it well suited to the performance of expressive, melancholic solos in [[orchestra]]l works (including [[film score]]s) as well as operas. Famous examples are:
[[File:Dv CA extrait.jpg|thumb|480px|Opening motive from the 2nd movement (Largo) of [[Antonín Dvořák|Dvořák]]'s [[Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák)|Symphony No. 9]], ''From the New World'']]
*[[Vincenzo Bellini]]'s ''Il Pirata'' (Act II: Introduzione) (1827)
*[[Hector Berlioz]]'s ''[[Harold in Italy]]'' (1834)
*[[Hector Berlioz]]'s ''[[La damnation de Faust]]'': "D’amour l’ardente flamme"
*Hector Berlioz's ''[[Rob Roy Overture]]'' (1826)
*Hector Berlioz's ''[[Roman Carnival Overture]]'' (1844)
*Hector Berlioz's ''[[Symphonie fantastique]]'' (third [[Movement (music)|movement]]) (1830)
*[[Alexander Borodin]]'s ''[[In the Steppes of Central Asia]]'' (1880)
*Alexander Borodin's "[[Polovetsian Dances]]" from ''Prince Igor'' (1890)
*Emmanuel Chabrier's "Lamento" for orchestra (1875)
*[[Louis Cole]]'s ''nothing'' (2024) ("It All Passes")
*[[Claude Debussy]]'s ''[[Nocturnes (Debussy)|Nocturnes]]'' (1899) ("Nuages")
*[[Frederick Delius]]'s ''[[Florida Suite]]'' (1887)
*Antonín Dvořák's [[Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák)|Symphony No. 9]] (1893), ''From the New World'' (Largo)
*[[César Franck]]'s [[Symphony in D minor (Franck)|Symphony in D minor]] (1888) (2nd movement)
*[[Alexander Glazunov]]'s [[Symphony No. 4 (Glazunov)|Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major]] (1893) (1st movement)
*Joseph Haydn's [[Symphony No. 22 (Haydn)|Symphony No. 22, "The Philosopher"]] (1764) (two English horns)
*Joseph Haydn's Divertimento in F, for two violins, two English horns, two horns & two bassoons Hob. II: 6 (1760)
*[[Vincent d'Indy]]'s ''[[Symphony on a French Mountain Air]]'' (1886)
*[[Zoltán Kodály]]'s ''Summer Evening'' (1906)
*Gustav Mahler's ''Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen'' from ''[[Rückert-Lieder]]'' (1901), ''Wenn dein Mütterlein'' from ''[[Kindertotenlieder]]'' (1905)
*[[Jules Massenet]]'s ''[[Le Cid]]'' Ballet Suite (Madrilène) (1885)
*[[Olivier Messiaen]]'s ''[[L'ascension]]'' (1932–33) (2nd movement)
*[[Thea Musgrave]]'s ''Phoenix Rising'' (1997)
*[[Basil Poledouris]]'s ''[[Conan the Barbarian (1982 film)|Conan the Barbarian]]'' score – "Riddle of Steel" (1982)
*[[Amilcare Ponchielli]]'s ''Voce di donna'' from ''[[La Gioconda (opera)|La Gioconda]]''
*[[Gaetano Pugnani]]'s ''Werther'' Melodrama in Two Parts, (Part II No. 21 Largo assai) (1790)
*[[Sergei Rachmaninoff]]'s [[Symphonic Dances (Rachmaninoff)|Symphonic Dances]] (1940)
*Sergei Rachmaninoff's ''[[The Bells (symphony)|The Bells]]'' (1913) (4th movement)
*[[Maurice Ravel]]'s [[Piano Concerto in G (Ravel)|Piano Concerto in G]] (1931) (2nd movement)
*Maurice Ravel's [[Ballet]] ''[[Daphnis et Chloé]]'' (1912)
*Maurice Ravel's [[Le Tombeau de Couperin]] (1914-1917) All movements but the Fugue and Toccata, later orchestrated by Zoltán Kocsis (1917-1919)
*Maurice Ravel's ''[[Rapsodie espagnole]]'' (1908)
*[[Alfred Reed]]'s ''[[Russian Christmas Music]]'' (1944)
*[[Ottorino Respighi]]'s ''[[Fountains_of_Rome_(symphonic_poem)|Fontane di Roma]]'' (1918)
*Ottorino Respighi's ''[[Pini di Roma]]'' (1924) 
*Ottorino Respighi's ''Lauda per la Natività del Signore'' (1930)
*[[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]]'s ''[[Capriccio Espagnol]]'' (1887) (2nd movement)
*Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's ''[[Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)|Scheherazade]]'' Op. 35 (1888)
*[[Joaquín Rodrigo]]'s ''[[Concierto de Aranjuez]]'' (1939) (2nd movement)
*Gioachino Rossini's ''[[Adelaide di Borgogna]]'', aria: "Soffri la tua sventura … Amica speme"
*Gioachino Rossini's ''[[William Tell (opera)|William Tell Overture]]'' (1829)
*Antonio Salieri's ''Annibale in Capua''
*[[Howard Shore]]'s [[The Lord of the Rings (film series)|''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy]] (film score)
*[[Dmitri Shostakovich]]'s [[Symphony No. 4 (Shostakovich)|Symphony No. 4 in C minor]] (1936) (1st movement)
*Dmitri Shostakovich's [[Symphony No. 6 (Shostakovich)|Symphony No. 6 in B minor]] (1939) (1st movement)
*Dmitri Shostakovich's [[Symphony No. 8 (Shostakovich)|Symphony No. 8 in C minor]] (1943) (1st movement)
*Dmitri Shostakovich's [[Symphony No. 10 (Shostakovich)|Symphony No. 10 in E minor]] (1953) (3rd movement)
*Dmitri Shostakovich's [[Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich)|Symphony No. 11 in G minor]] (1957) (4th movement)
*Jean Sibelius' ''[[Karelia Suite]]'' (1893) and [[Pelléas et Mélisande (Sibelius)|Pelléas et Mélisande]] (1905)
*[[Robert W. Smith (musician)|Robert W. Smith]]'s Symphony No. 2 "The Odyssey" (3rd movement, "The Isle of Calypso")
*[[Richard Strauss]]' ''[[Ein Heldenleben]]'' (1898)
*Igor Stravinsky's ''[[The Rite of Spring]]'' (1913) Mainly in the Intro to Part I and the next-to-last dance in Part II, ''Ritual Action of the Ancestors''
*[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]'s ''[[Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture]]'' (1870) (Love Theme, Exposition)
*Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ''[[The Nutcracker]]'' (1892)
*[[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]' ''[[In the Fen Country]]'' (1904)
*Ralph Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 2 ''[[A London Symphony]]'' (2nd movement)
*Ralph Vaughan Williams' [[Symphony No. 5 (Vaughan Williams)|Symphony No. 5 in D major]] (1943) (3rd movement)
*Ralph Vaughan Williams' [[Symphony No. 6 (Vaughan Williams)|Symphony No. 6 in E minor]] (1946–47) (2nd movement)
*[[Richard Wagner]]'s ''[[Tristan und Isolde]]'' (1859) (Act 3, Scene 1)
*[[Ennio Morricone]]'s ''[[The Ecstasy of Gold]]''   (1966)
*[[John Williams]]' ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]''   (film score) (2001)
*John Williams' ''[[Schindler's List]]'' (film score) (1993)