19571955 1956
56/01/09 BBC

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 Berkeley Trio for violin, horn, and piano
Colin Horsley(pf), Max Rostal(vn)
56/01/24 Royal Festival Hall Philharmonia
Otto Klemperer		 The bicentenary of the birth of Mozart
Symphony No.29 K201
Violin Concerto No.5 K219
(solo:Bronislav Gimpel)
Serenade No.13 Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Symphony No.40 K550
56/01 Enniskillen,
Co. Fermanagh 		  Mozart Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat K.417
Strauss Horn Concerto No.1(1st movement only)
Dennis may also have demonstrated blowing the garden hose.
56/01 Dublin
Farnham		 DBWE

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56/02 BBC DBWE Alfred Uhl Wind Octet
Mozart Octet
56/02/06 Royal Festival Hall Philharmonia
Herbert von Karajan		 Mozart
Symphony No.35 K385 Haffner
Piano Concerto No.23 K488
(solo:Clara Haskil)
Symphony No.41 K551 Jupiter
56/02/21 Music Hall
Aberdeen		 Scottish National
Karl Rankl		 Scotland Tour
R. Strauss Horn Concerto No.1 in E flat Op.11
Mozart Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat K417
56/02/22 Dundee Scottish National Mozart Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat K417
R.Strauss Horn Concerto No.1 in E flat Op.11
56/02/24 Edinburgh Scottish National Mozart Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat K417
R.Strauss Horn Concerto No.1 in E flat Op.11
56/02/25 Glasgow Scottish National Mozart Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat K417
R.Strauss Horn Concerto No.1 in E flat Op.11
56/02/27 Aberdeen Dennis Brain Trio Brahms Trio for violin, horn and piano
Berkley Trio for violin, horn and piano
Mozart Horn Quintet(arr. by E.Neumann)
Jean Pougnet(vn), Wilfred Parry(pf)
56/02/28 Markinch Dennis Brain Trio

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56/02/29 George Watson's
School
Edinburgh

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 Wilfred Parry(pf)
56/02/29 Freemason's Hall
Edinburgh		 Dennis Brain Trio Lunchtime concert
56/02/29 Glasgow Dennis Brain Trio

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56/03/03 Auchinleck House Dennis Brain Trio last concert of the tour
56/03/07 Portora Royal School

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 With Mr Smith (piano) - music department of Portora Royal School
Mozart Horn Concerto K.417 - all
Strauss Horn Concerto no.1 - all
Dennis Brain talks about the history of the instrument and demonstrates hunting calls on a garden hose pipe
Gilbert Vinter: Hunter's Moon
Dukas: Villanelle for horn and piano
Marais: Le Basque for horn and piano
56/03/10 Royal Festival Hall DBWE

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56/03/16 Royal Festival Hall
recital room		 DBWE Kathleen Long(pf), Frederick Riddle(va),
Stephen Waters(cl), Maria Donska(pf)
56/03/20 Bishopsgaet Istitute

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 recital
56/03/22 Dukes Hall Royal Amateur
Orchestra Society
Arthur Davison		 R. Strauss Horn Concerto No.1 in E flat Op.11
56/03 Brighton DBWE

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56/03/23 Royal Festival Hall Philharmonia
Otto Klemperer		 Beethoven
Egmont Overture
Symphony No.6 Pastral
Symphony No.5
56/03/26 Piccolo Scala
Milan		 DBWE Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble's
first foreign tour
56/03/27 Piccolo Scala
Milan

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 Mozart Sinfonia Concertante K297b
56/04/03
56/04/04
56/04/07
56/04/08
56/04/09
56/04/11		 Parermo
Messina
Florence
L'Aqiula
Rome
Turin

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56/04/16 unknown Philharmonia
Norman Del Mar		 R. Strauss Prelude Capriccio
Hindemith Horn Concerto
R. Strauss Metamorphosen for 23 Strings
Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
Peter Pears (T)
56/04/18 Wigmore Hall DB Chamber Orch. Dennis Brain Chamber Orchestra first concert
Fricker
Concertante for coranglais and strings
(solo:Leonard Brain)
Mozart
Symphony No.17 in G
Divertimento in F major K247
Horn Concerto No.1 K412 in D
Fragment in E
56/04/22 Conway Hall DB Chamber Orch. Fricker
Concertante for coranglais and strings
(solo:Leonard Brain)
Mozart
Symphony No.17 in G
Serenade in C minor
Horn Concerto No.3 in E flat K447
Fragment in E
56/04/27 Wigmore Hall DB Chamber Orch. Mozart
Symphony No.11 in D
Divertimento K334 in D major
Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat K417
Malcolm Arnold Sinfonietta in F
56/04/29 Victoria and Albert
Museum		 Boyd Neel Orch.
Brian Priestman		 Handel Concerto Grosso Op.6 No.6
Bach Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor
Erich Gruenberg, Jack Rothstein(vn)
Anthony Lewis
Concerto for horn and strings (first performance)
Stravinsky Concerto in D for Strings
56/04/30 Wigmore Hall Programme Notes Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble the 10th Anniversary Concert
I.Ghedini Concerto a Cinque, for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano
Wilfrid Parry(pf)
II.Mozart Fantasia in F minor and major
(wind quartet arr. by Dennis Brain)
III.York Bowen Sonata for Horn and Piano(1938)
York Bowen(pf)
IV.Denis Matthews a Partita for wind
V.Jacob Sextet for Piano and Wind Instruments
(written in memory of Aubrey Brain)
George Malcolm(pf)

Gareth Morris(fl), Leonard Brain(ob), Stephen Waters(cl), Dennis Brain(hr), Cecil James(fg)
56/05/04 Zurich Tonhalle
(Swiss Radio)		 Collegium Musicum
Paul Sacher		 Othmar Schoek's 70th birth anniversary concert
Othmar Schoek Horn Concerto Op.65(1951)
56/05/18
56/05/25		 Royal Albert Hall LPO
Adrian Boult		 Mozart Horn Concerto No.4 in E flat K495
56/05/26 Wigmore Hall

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 Arnold Cooke Arioso and Scherzo
(London Premiere)
Carter String Trio,Majorie Lempfert(viola)
56/05/31 Covent Garden Rudolf Kempe Wagner Siegfried Act II
56/06/03 Royal Festival Hall Philharmonia
Paul Parrey		 Mendelssohn The Hebrides Overture
Mozart Violin Concerto No.5 K219
Sibelius Violin Concerto Op.47
(solo:Jascha Heifetz)
56/06/06 Concertgebouw
Amsterdam

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 Schubert Auf dem Strom
Britten Canticle III Still Falls the Rain
Dukas Villanelle
Schumann Adagio and Allegro
Peter Pears(T), Benjamin Britten(pf)
56/06/14 Royal Festival Hall LMP
Harry Blech		 Mozart Horn Concerto No.1 in D K412
56/06/15 Royal Festival Hall the English Opera Group
Anthony Collins		 Dame Edith Sitwell
Peter Pears, Dennis Brain and Benjamin Britten
56/06/19 BBC DBWE Milhaud Chasse a Vallarbe for wind
56/06/20 Royal Festival Hall Philharmonia
Herbert von Karajan		 Beethoven Symphony No.2
R.Strauss Vier letzte Lieder
(solo:Elisabeth Schwarzkopf)
Brahms Symphony No.4
56/06/21
56/06/22		 Aldeburgh(BBC)

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 1956 Aldeburgh Festival
Schumann Adagio and Allegro in A flat major Op.70
BBC radio program "The Heart of the Matter"
(a miscellany of Poems by Edith Sitwell)
Britten
Canticle Canticle III Still Falls the Rain
Fire
So,Out Of the Dark
Peter Pears(T), Benjamin Britten(pf)
56/06/24 BBC
(Broacast 07/01)		 Wellbeck Orch.
Miles		 York Bowen
Concerto for horn,strings and timpani
56/06/27 BBC

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 Peter Racine Fricker
Horn Sonata
(first performance)
Wilfred Parry(pf)
56/07 BBC

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 "On a Personal Note"
a programme of horn music
56/07/01 Royal Festival Hall Philharmonia
Guido Cantelli		 Verdi Requiem
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Ebe Stignani,
Ferruccio Tagliavini, Giuseppe Modesti
Croydon Philharmonic Choir
56/07/03 Royal Festival Hall Philharmonia
Reginald Stewart		 Brahms Academic Festival Overture
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 Op.73
(solo:Benno Moiseiwitch)
Brahms Symphony No.1 Op.68
56/07/06 Nederlands Omroep
Stichting(NOS)
Hilversum

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 Holland Festival 1956
Dukas Villanelle
Britten Canticle III Still Falls the Rain
Schubert Auf dem Strom
Schumann Adagio and Allegro
Benjamin Britten(pf), Peter Pears(T)
56/07/26

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 Boyd Neel Orch.
Boyd Neel		 J.S.Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.1
Emmanuel Hurwitz(vn), Leon Goossens(ob)
Norman Del Mar(hr)
56/08/04 BBC

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 Peter Racine Fricker
Sonata for horn
Wilfred Parry(pf)
56/08/13 BBC

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 Desert Island Discs Roy Plomley
56/09/01 Kunsthaus
Lucerne		 Philharmonia
Fritz Reiner		 1956 Lucerne International Festival
R. Strauss "Also sprach Zarathustra"
Berlioz "Le Carnaval Romain" Ouverture
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4 (solo:Walter Gieseking)
56/09/04 Kunsthaus
Lucerne		 Philharmonia
George Szell		 R. Strauss "Vier letzte Lieder" Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sop)
Ravel "Daphnis et Chloe", 2nd suite
Wagner "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg", Prelude
Schumann Symphony No.4
56/09/06 Kunsthaus
Lucerne		 Philharmonia
Herbert von Karajan		 Beethoven Symphony No.6 Pastral
Brahms Symphony No.4
56/09/12 Venice Festival
Venice		 DBWE Peter Racine Fricker
Horn Sonata
Gian Francesco Malipiero
Dialogue No.4 for wind
(first performance)
Riegger Concerto for piano and wind
Gareth Morris(fl), Leonard Brain(ob),
Stephen Waters(cl), Cecil James(fg)
Rosalyn Tureck(pf)
56/09/22
56/09/23		 Abbey Road Philharmonia
Wolfgang Sawallisch		 Richard Strauss
Horn Concerto No.1 in E flat Op.11
Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat(1942)
56/10/03 Oslo

Oslo Philharmonic O
Öivin Fjelstad

Scandinavia tour
Mozart Horn Concerto No.3 K.447
R.Strauss Horn Concerto No.1 in E flat Op.11
56/10/05 Helsinki Finish RSO
Nils-Eric Fougstedt		 R.Strauss Horn Concerto No.1 in E flat Op.11
56/10/07
56/10/08
56/10/09		 Musikaliska
Akademien
Stockholm		 Swedish RSO
Sten Frykberg		 Mozart Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat K417(10/07)
56/10/11 Gothenburg

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56/10/18 Tempest Anderson Hall
(Museum Gardens)
York

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 Brain-Pougnet-Parry Trio
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire tour
56/10/25 Barton-on-Humber

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the Barton and district music club
Beethoven Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major, OP.47, The Kreutzer
Mozart
arranged by
Naumann		 Trio in E flat for Horn, Violin and Piano
Brahms Trio in E flat major, Op.40
for Horn, Violin and Piano
There is a note on the programme which states:
"The National Federation of Music Societies to which this Society is affiliated supports this concert with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain."
56/10/30 BBC
(Broadcast 11/03)

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 Cooke Arioso and Scherzo
Mozart Quintet for horn and strings in E flatK407
Carter Trio
56/11/08 Royal Festival Hall RPO
Sir Thomas Beecham
Haydn Symphony No.93 in D
Villa-Lobos Piano Concerto (Ellen Ballon)
First London performance
Delius In a Summer Garden
Bizet L'Arlesienne Suite
Delius Irmelin Prelude (encore)
(NOTICE) Dennis Brain played in RPO concert again after a long interval.
56/11/09 Royal Festival Hall Philharmonia
Otto Klemperer		 Brahms
Academic Festival Overture
Violin Concerto op.77
(solo:Manoug Parikian)
Symphony No.4 op.98
56/11/12 Royal Festival Hall Philharmonia
Otto Klemperer		 Brahms
Tragic Overture
Piano Concerto No.2 op.83
(solo:Anie Fischer)
Symphony No.2 op.73
56/11/13 Royal Festival Hall Trumpeters of the Royal
Military School of Music
Hoffnung
(Morley College)S.O.
Malcolm Arnold,
Norman Del Mar *
Lawrence Leonard **
Tuba Quartet ***
Festival Ensemble ****
Gordon Jacob ****
Fritz Speigl		 The Hoffnung Music Festival Concert
Speech by Mr T.E.Bean,
Genaral Manager of the Royal Festival Hall
Francis Baines Fanfare
Malcolm Arnold Grand Grand Overture (World Premieres)
Dennis Braine(org), Olive Zorian, Jean Stewart,
Mrs. Norman Del Mar, domestic instruments
(3 vacuum cleaners & 1 electric floor polisher)
Kneller Hall, bangs(3 riflemen),
Annetta Hoffnung(bass drum)
Leopold Mozart arr. Norman Del Mar
Third movement from Concerto for Alphorn and Strings,
on a length of garden hosepipe *
(solo:Dennis Braine)
Franz Reizenstein Concerto populare
(A Piano Concerto to End All Piano Concertos) *
(solo: Yvonne Arnaud)
Haydn arr. Donald Swann Andante from
Symphony No.94 in G Surprise **
(soloists:members of the BBC Music Division)
Speech by Gerard Hoffnung
Chopin arr. Daniel Abrams Mazruka No.47
in A minor Op.68 No.2 ***
Humphrey Searle Lochinvar **
for speakers and percussion, to words by Sir Walter Scott
(speakers:Yvonne Arnaud, Gerard Hoffnung)
Gordon Jacob Variations on Annie Laurie ****
Toch Geographical Fugue
Butterworth Switch
Respighi Feste Romana
56/11/16
or 17(?)		 Royal Festival Hall Philharmonia
Otto Klemperer		 Brahms
Variations on a theme of Haydn
Symphony No.3 Op.90
Symphony No.1 Op.68
56/11/19 Kingsway Hall Philharmonia
Paul Hindemith		 Pual Hindemith Horn Concerto(1949)
56/11/25 Royal Festival Hall Philharmonia
Hans Swarowsky		 Mozart Die Zauberflote Overture
Beethoven Symphony No.6 Op.68 Pastral
Rachmaninov Rhapsody
on a theme of Paganini Op.43
(solo:Peter Katchen)
R.Strauss Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
56/11/27 Royal Festival Hall Philharmonia
George Szell		 Beethoven
Egmont Overture
Violin Concerto Op.61
(solo:Jino Francescatti)
Brahms Symphony No.4 Op.98
56/11/29
(7 p.m.)		 Plaza Theatre

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Newbury & District Arts Society CONCERT
Brain Wind Quartet and Pianoforte
Leonard Brain(ob), Stephen Waters(cl), John Alexandra(fg), Dennis Brain(hr), Wilfrid Parry(pf)
Mozart Divertimento No.4 An Oubradous *
Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon
Beethoven Sonata for Horn and Pianoforte in F Op.17
Poulenc Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Pianoforte
Dukas Villanelle for Horn and Pianoforte
Mozart Quintet in E flat K.452
* this should read arr. Oubradous - the printers of the programme, G W Simpson & Son Ltd of Newbury, could not read Dennis' handwriting!
56/11/29 Royal Festival Hall Philharmonia
George Szell		 Haydn Symphony No.92 Oxford
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Op.64
(solo:Jino Francescatti)
Brahms Symphony No.4 Op.98
56/12/04 Paris

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 Brahms Horn Trio
Manoug Parikian(vn), Lamar Crowson(pf)
56/12/06 Royal Festival Hall RPO
Sir Thomas Beecham		 Wagner
Overture Lienzi
Tannhauser Introduction to Act 3
Lohengrin Prelude to Act 1; Act 3 scenes 1 and 2
Jennifer Vyvyan, Walter Midgley
Das Rheingold Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla
Siegfreid Forest Murmurs
Gotterdammerung Siegfreid's Rhine Journey
Parsifal Good Friday Music
Tannhauser March and Chorus Act 2
Beecham Choral Society
The Ride of the Valkyries (encore)
56/12/12 Royal Festival Hall RPO
Sir Thomas Beecham		 Beethoven
Symphony No.8 Op.93
Symphony No.9 Op.125 Choral
Jean Lady(S), Monica Sinclear(A),
Roland Jones(T), Gottlob Frick(Bs)
Beecham Choral Society
56/12/16 BBC
(Broadcast 12/17)		 Goldsburgh Orch.
Charles Mackkeras		 Haydn Concert Trio Pieta di Me in Es major
Joan Sutherland, April Cantelo(S),
Raymond Nilsson(T), Peter Graeme(cor anglais),
John Alexandra(fg)
56/12/28 Friends' Meeting
House
Euston Road

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 Pablo Casals Eightieth Birthday tribute
Mozart Horn Concerto No.3 in E flat K447

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