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Aubrey Brain

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SBT 1001 Johannes Brahms, Horn Trio in E flat major, Op. 40. With Adolf Busch, violin, and Rudolf Serkin, piano. Recorded on 13 November 1933, at the Abbey Road Studios, London, and originally published on 78 RPM shellac as DB.2105/8. Further included on the CD is Brahms' Clarinet Quintet, played by
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He had a marked preference for French instruments, and played a hand horn made by Labbaye in c. 1865, to which English-made valves had been added. He would never permit the use of large-bore German horns in the BBC SO.
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as principal horn, and remained there until illness caused his premature retirement in 1943. He was often a soloist, and made a number of recordings.
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One recording by Aubrey Brain has been made available by the British classical record company Testament:
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wrote her Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra with Aubrey Brain in mind. He and
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premiered the work under Sir Henry Wood on 5 March 1927. He also played it in
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that same year, and in 1912 he went on the LSO's tour of the United States under
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In 1923 he succeeded his teacher, Borsdorf as professor of horn at the
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This article on a musician who plays a brass instrument is a
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All information taken from the booklet of Testament SBT 1001.
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Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed., 1954
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This article about a British classical musician is a
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was for many years the principal horn player in the
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in 1893. He came from a musical family. His father,
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Dennis Brain
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Alfred Edwin Brain Sr.
London Symphony Orchestra
Alfred
Queen's Hall
Sir Henry Wood
Royal College of Music
New Symphony Orchestra
Arthur Nikisch
Thomas Beecham
Royal Academy of Music
Dennis

Raoux
Royal Academy of Music
Ethel Smyth
Jelly d'Arányi
Berlin
Marjorie Hayward
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Covent Garden
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Reginald Kell

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