Dennis Brain
Ernest Jones
Fascinating reading for any horn music lover. Also an excellent survey
of the musical scene in the U.K. in the '40's & '50's and to some extent
in the U.S. The book also contains an excellent discography.I bought my
copy from Berkshire but it is now no longer listed! Amazon will try to
obtain!
Ernest Jones
Retired Music & Cruise Crazy Brit.
On Sunny Isles Beach
Life is an Opera
Gary G. Taylor
recording on Angel. On it, Mr Brain performs the horn part of one of
the movements of Mozart's K495 with a mouthpiece stuck into a length
of coiled garden hose (after some comedic business with cutting the
hose to the right length to be in tune) ... trills and all.
Breathtaking ... and very funny.
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999 18:15:08 -0400 (EDT), mon...@webtv.net (Ernest
Jones) wrote:
>I have just read his biography (OUP).
[etc.]
Gary G. Taylor 29 Palms, CA
Reply to gary at donavan dot org
http://www.donavan.org
Freedom is the best revenge.
Ernest Jones
JackH35785
I, Champaign-Urbana. And as you expect, with a coterie like this what they
would perform! Afterwards they all held a "symposium" with the U of I orchestra
members and I had quite a conversation with him. I was very surprised that he
was playing a single Bflat horn, not the double horn his Dad played. He was a
very jolly guy, very likeable.
Jack
Doug McDonald
>
> You might search out the original Hoffnung Music Festival Concert
> recording on Angel. On it, Mr Brain performs the horn part of one of
> the movements of Mozart's K495 with a mouthpiece stuck into a length
> of coiled garden hose (after some comedic business with cutting the
> hose to the right length to be in tune) ... trills and all.
> Breathtaking ... and very funny.
One of the all-time great recordings! Hoffnung was of course
a great showman, and this particular piece is awesome. Brain
must have been really stupendous to pull off that act.
Doug McDonald
Ernest Jones
He was probably better than his contemps. such as Civil, Tuckwell
Baumann etc. However of the new generation, IMHO, Pyatt and Neunecker
may be his equal or (gasp!) better! Where he still leads the pack is, I
believe, in the number of works for horn written especially for him, and
his wide repertory. Any thoughts, opinions, or comments?
Andy Evans
Where he still leads the pack is, I believe, in the number of works for horn
written especially for him, and his wide repertory. Any thoughts, opinions,
or comments?>>
got a wonderful natural, rounded tone out of it. Many players now use wide
bore horns like Paxmans which are easier to play but not such a classical
sound. The actual instrument is not to be ignored in this - the Alex players
were the Spitfire pilots of the horn - more courageous, more danger up top,
more rewards.
Andy Evans, email: arts.ps...@cwcom.net
Our Website: www.artspsychology.mcmail.com
George Byrd
on "Re: Dennis Brain"
Doug McDonald <mcdo...@scs.uiuc.edu> cast this ASCII:
I have a question, or maybe a minor nit to add.
I'm not sure which Angel recording of the Hoffnung festival is under
discussion here.
I have Angel 35500, "The Hoffnung Music Festival Concert" recorded
11/13/56. On side one, cut 3, Dennis Brain does play "Concerto for
hosepipe and strings (3rd Movement only) Leopold Mozart".
The notes say "Mozart's father Leopold wrote a concerto for an alphorn
with strings. Dennis brain here plays the work on a brass mouth piece
applied to a length of rubber garden hose. ..."
The music I heard was definitely not K 495, WAJCM's 4th horn concerto
in Eb.
I believe I have heard the "alphorn" piece attributed to Leopold
performed on a trumpet at some time in the past as well.
I do agree with the evaluations of Brain's performance above.
Is there another Hoffnung / Brain performance recorded on Angel?
GB
--
Opinions above are NOT those of APAN, Inc. and are NOT legal advice.
"I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?"
<< Frank Zappa, 9/19/85, at a Congressional hearing on explicit lyrics >>
JackH35785
because in the text there is a reference to a date of 1974. Yes,
on my issue DB's is:
"Concerto for hose-pipe and strings
(third movement) Leopold Mozart)
Hose-pipe: Dennis Brain
Conductor: Norman Del Mar
(BTW, NDM was also a pro horn player)
It is also the "13th November, 1956" but it is a bit confusing
since on the pressing it says "1958." So, I'm not sure what is
going on!
Jack
Edwin Ross Quantrall
George Byrd wrote:
The *serious* version of L. Mozart's "Concerto for Alpenhorn and Strings"
can be found on Marco Polo CD 8.223101, issued in 1988 and probably OOP.
(Although I'm sure that someone else has probably also issued it in the
meantime.)
--
Edwin
##############################################################################
"I think there is a world market for about five computers." - Thomas Watson,
chairman of IBM, 1943
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."
- Ken
Olson, president of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"640K [of memory] ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, CEO of
Microsoft, 1981
Read "The Secret of Sherwood Forest" on Robin's NIMH Fan-fic Archive at:
http://members.xoom.com/Robin37/
jp winter
Jones) wrote:
>I have just read his biography (OUP).
>Fascinating reading for any horn music lover. Also an excellent survey
>of the musical scene in the U.K. in the '40's & '50's and to some extent
>in the U.S. The book also contains an excellent discography.I bought my
>copy from Berkshire but it is now no longer listed! Amazon will try to
>obtain!
Just listened to his rendition of Othmar Schoeck's Concerto with Coll.
Mus. Zurich/Paul Sacher ('56). Breathtaking horn playing. Also a nice
way to bring some recent threads in this ng together.
regards, jan winter