Icon: Dennis Brain

Icon: Dennis Brain
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Four CD set. Dennis Brain is the Horn Player who performs Mozart, Strauss, Beethoven, Hindemith, Wagner, Schumann, Haydn and Jacob. The Siegfried of the horn' is how Sir Thomas Beecham affectionately dubbed Dennis Brain, the brilliant horn player whose career ended with such cruel suddenness when the car in which he was driving home overnight from the 1957 Edinburgh Festival crashed into a tree on the outskirts of London. Beecham's graceful description derives from the hero's horn-call in Wagner's opera, music that had come to be particularly associated with Brain: he had played it to illustrate the horn's capabilities in HMV's 1947 recording Instruments of the Orchestra, and in the 1950s, the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, had called him in for three successive seasons to play the taxing horn passages in the company's Ring cycles.
Country USA
Brand EMI CLASSICS
Manufacturer EMI Classics / Warner Classics
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber 5099920601027
ReleaseDate 2008-09-02
UnitCount 4
Format Box set
UPCs 825646389957
EANs 5099920601027

Country	USA
Brand	EMI CLASSICS
Manufacturer	EMI Classics / Warner Classics
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	5099920601027
ReleaseDate	2008-09-02
UnitCount	4
Format	Box set
UPCs	825646389957
EANs	5099920601027

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