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Le specialists, particularly to confirmed Brain make a clear-cut choice between the latter Winds, in E flat, Op. 16". MILHAUD: devotees, for its main attractions are not so and am glad to have both discs. Muti is the Cheminée du roi René.* MOZART: Diver- much the performances themselves, engag- more vibrant and brilliant Rossinian, Ab- timento No. 14, in B flat, K. 270 (arr. ing but indifferently recorded, as the ex- bado the more sensitive and graceful- Baines).* cerpts from a 1955 lecture -recital and a equally legitimate approaches. Abbadós Among the precious legacies left us 1956 interview, even less well recorded yet London Symphony, however, plays with by the great artists of the past, there are quite intelligible. There are also several greater finesse than Muti's Philharmonia, some we treasure with a special affection by by a keenly poignant sense of brief spoken reminiscences and tributes and I suspect that in the long run it is to Ab- intensified abbreviated discog- such colleagues as conductor Norman del badó s elegant performances that I will unfulfillment: the in Mar, flutist Gareth Morris, and critic Felix want to return more often. All three discs raphies of musicians tragically silenced promis- Aprahamian. Like Arabesque's moving are well recorded. Angel's surfaces, it is the very prime of their incalculably earlier memorials to Maggie Teyte (8069) good to note, are excellent. D.S.H. ing careers. One thinks first perhaps of conductor Guido Cantelli, contralto Kath- and Kathleen Ferrier (8070), this one is ab- leen Ferrier, pianist William Kapell, violin- solutely essential for every aficionado's Recitals ist Ginette Neveu, tenor Fritz Wunderlich, most treasured memorabilia. and others, but also of the still -living yet in- The ICI recital disc may have slightly and Miscellany capacitated cellist Jacqueline du Pré and pi- more general appeal, since it includes no anist Leon Fleisher. And not least of all spoken materials or audience applause- to DENNIS BRAIN: Unreleased these, notable even among them for his me- nor, indeed, any annotations. In contrast Arabesque documentation, Performances. teoric rise to fame and for the unanimity of the admirable no detailed informa- Dennis Brain, horn*; Wilfrid Parry, international acclaim for his matchless art- there is inexcusably when and where the (broad- piano'; Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble*. istry, was Dennis Brain. Unfortunately, the tion on exactly duo performance and the three 1955 [Sylvia Gartner, prod.] ARABESQUE 8071, incomparable horn player's affinity for his cast?) live -concert quintet performances took $6.98 (mono). Tape: 9071, $6.98 (cassette). instrument, its history, and its music was who recorded them. Yet while the [Recorded in concert, Aug. 24, 1957; in- accompanied by a fascination with cars and place, or larger ensemble pieces are recorded rather cludes interviews and tributes.] fast driving that led to his fatal crash of closely, the lively Mozart di- BEETHOVEN: Quintet for Piano September 1, 1957, at the age of only thirty- coarsely and vertimento and the piquant (if here hardly and Winds, in E flat, Op. 16." DUKAS: six. welcome addi- Villanelle." MALIPIERO: Dialogue No. 4.* The scant Brain repertory still in the Gallic) Milhaud suite are tions to the Brain discography; and this MARAIS: La Basque.** catalog remains one of the most persuasive has the DENNIS BRAIN: Horn Recital. and rewarding introductions to what is per- reading of the Beethoven quintet Britten's sur- Dennis Brain, horn"; Conrad Han- haps the noblest of orchestral instru- added attraction of Benjamin pianistic participation- sen* and Benjamin Britten', piano; Dennis ments-the four Mozart concertos above all prisingly deft the two Richard markedly more distinctive than Wilfrid Brain Wind Quintet*. 1 GRANDI INTERPRETI (Angel 35092), but also Parry's playing in the Arabesque version. IGl 370, $7.00 (mono) (includes postage; Strauss concertos (Angel 35496),.the collec- magnetically attractive is the Discocorp, Inc., P.O. Box 771, Berkeley, tion "The Art of Dennis Brain" (Seraphim Even more recorded Beethoven sonata, Calif. 94701) [recorded in concert, 1955, ex- 60040), and the sole stereo example, Hin- more brightly which Brain's own authoritative virtuos- cept sonata, date unknown]. demith's horn concerto with the composer in that of the fine Ger- BEETHOVEN: Sonata for Horn and conducting (Angel S 35491). Arabesque's ity is fully matched by man pianist Conrad Hansen. R.D.D. Piano, in F, Op. 17*; Quintet for Piano and BBC memorial program will appeal more to

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