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From: "Len of MusicWeb" <zen22662@zen.co.uk>
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Subject: Help wanted re Dennis Brain
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 20:26:10 +0100
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I have received this request. Can anyone help? Please reply to
Len@musicweb.uk.net

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 (unofficial 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

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Len Mullenger
Founder MusicWeb
The Internet CD review site
www.musicweb.uk.net www.FilmMusic.uk.net
www.TheClassicalSite.com

In article <o8mctihclg3v4v70ue8g5k9plurl32scn0@4ax.com>,
Mr. Mike <mjq@mjq.net> wrote:
>This is the earliest posting available (7537 days ago) via my
>Usenet provider, which is usenetserver.com. It costs $12 US per
>month. I think this kind of coverage is typical of most providers
>who have postings which go back a really long way.

I had the full history of RMCR from when this server started (which
was only a handful of years ago, not the *full* history) -- until
the massive Google spam that started up late last year. That dwarfed
the rest of text Usenet, and caused a lot of expiration. The attack
has stopped, but alas, now I have only a short history here. YMMV.