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I have received this request. Can anyone help?
Dear Mr. Mullenger,
I am gathering research for a new biography of Dennis Brain
(1921-1957) and part of this project - a large part - is the
cataloguing and discovery of additional recordings (unoffical
private recordings, official private recordings, radio broadcasts).
I have found reference to two single-sided acetate discs of Alan
Bush's Trent's Broad Reaches and Autumn Poem with Dennis Brain
accompanied by the composer. The recordings date from about
January 1955. I have contacted the Alan Bush Trust but their
archivist cannot find these discs. It is likely they were
produced for the composer's private collection and most
probably they are the first performances on 28 January 1955.
I am interested in tracking down recordings made at Aldeburgh
in 1955. I have the Britten Canticle III from that Festival,
22 June 1955 and a possible 1955 Aldeburgh recording of Dennis
Brain in Haydn Horn Concerto No.2 (the conductor and orchestra
can't be identified) and wonder of the Searle Aubade premiere
might also have been recorded. The most likely source for such
a recording would be the composer. Do you know of the existence
of a recording with Dennis Brain?
I am co-writing the book with an American amateur hornplayer.
Any help you can give would be most welcome. I have a vast
archive of recordings of Dennis Brain (and also some of Aubrey
Brain his father, and Alfred Brain his uncle), many of them out
of print or unofficial.
Yours sincerely,
Stephen Gamble
Len Mullenger
www.musicweb.uk.net www.FilmMusic.uk.net
www.TheClassicalSite.com
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