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Mozart - Four Horn Concertos, Quintet for Piano and Wind  | Naxos - Historical 8111070

Mozart - Four Horn Concertos, Quintet for Piano and Wind

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Label: Naxos - Historical

Cat No: 8111070

Barcode: 0747313307029

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 2nd January 2007

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About

The legendary horn player Dennis Brain died at the early age of 36 on 1st September 1957, killed at the wheel of his car while on an overnight journey home from a concert at the Edinburgh Festival, but his reputation has never dimmed. 
 
Possessed with an astonishing mastery of the whole range of the instrument, Brain played with remarkable delicacy of execution in rapid staccato passages, allied to an innate subtlety of phrasing. 
 
Elegant, buoyant and effortlessly exuberant, these famous 1953 performances of the four Mozart concertos continue to be the yardstick by which all subsequent versions are measured.
 
Horn Concerto Nos 1, 2, 3 and 4:
Dennis Brain, (horn), Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
Recorded in Kingsway Hall, London, 12th, 13th and 23rd November 1953
Quintet in E flat major:
Walter Gieseking (piano), Philharmonia Wind Ensemble: Sidney Sutcliffe (oboe), Bernard Walton, (clarinet), Dennis Brain (horn), Cecil James (bassoon)
Recorded in EMI Abbey Road Studio No. 1, London, 15th April 1955
 
This is the first recording of Dennis Brain on the Naxos label.
 

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