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Imogen Holst: Gustav Holst A Biography. Second Edition, London Oxford University Press, New York, Toronto. (1969, 1st pub. 1938). Ch.5: 1910, p.37:

E Bradley Strauchen : Historic Handover
E Bradley Strauchen relates the story of a notable Raoux
The Horn Magazine, Vol.7, No.3, December 1999

Alfred Brain

Leighton Jones, Alf Brain : the forgotten English virtuoso?
The Horn Magazine, Vol.10, No.3, April 2003, pp.18-27

Aubrey Brain

Michael Short: Gustav Holst, The Man and His Music
Oxford University Press, 1990, page 215
Chapter 12 International Acclaim 1922-1924

Stephen Gamble : Aubrey Brain, A Tribute
The Horn Magazine, Vol.1, No.2, Spring 1993, pp.8-10

Ian Wagstaff : Stepping Back in Time
The Horn Magazine, Vol.1, No.2, Spring 1993, p.1

Dennis Brain

A letter from Dennis Brain
February 3, 1953
The Horn Call May 1971 & August 2000 editions
International Horn Society

William Mann : Richard Strauss On LP
The Gramophone May 1953, pp.10-11

The London Mozart Players
February, 1954
Music and Musicians

RAF Musicians
April, 1954
Music and Musicians

The Guildhall Ensemble
October, 1954
Music and Musicians

Dennis Brain : ABOUT THE FRENCH HORN
BRASS TODAY

Dennis Brain
unidentified newspaper
September 2, 1957

Obituary Dennis Brain A distinguished horn player
Guardian
Monday September 2, 1957

Harold Rutland : Notes and Comments Dennis Brain
Musical Times
October, 1957

H.R. : Dennis Brain
Musical Times
October, 1957

Walter Legge : Dennis Brain
Gramophon November 1957
ICRC Autumn 1995

Noel Goodwin : THE GENIUS WHO TAMED THE HORN
Source unknown
December 1957

Gerald Jackson : First Flute
edited by David Simmons
J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd., London 1968

Martin J. Prowse : The Unfamiliar Dennis Brain
Audio Record Review, October 1969, pp.678-9

Francis Routh : Contemporary British Music
The Twenty-five years from 1945 to 1970
London, Macdonald 1972 SBN 356 03773 8. p.246

Kenneth Thompson : A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Composers 1911-1971
London, Faber & Faber 1973 ISBN 0 571 09002 8

Geoffrey Skelton: Paul Hindemith The Man Behind the Music
London, Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1975 page 241

Jack Brymer : From Where I Sit
London, Cassell Ltd 35 Red Lion Square London WC1R 4SG, 1979

Andre Previn (ed.) : Orchestra
London, Macdonald & Jane's 1979, pp.20, 55, 72, 148

Elisabeth Schwartzkopf : On and Off the Record
Musical Adviser Establishment 1982

Michael Meckna : Twentieth-Century Brass Soloists
in Bio-Critical Sourcebooks On Musical Performance
ed. John Gillespie, Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press 1984, pp.40-41

Stephen Pettitt : Philharmonia Orchestra A Record of Achivement 1945-1985
Robert Hale limited 1985

My Orchestras and Other Adventures
The Memoirs of Boyd Neel
University of Toronto Press 1985

Stephen Pettitt : DENNIS BRAIN A Biography
1st edition 1976, 2nd edition 1987
Robert Hale Limited

Stephen Pettitt : Philharmonia Orchestra complete discography 1945-1987
John Hunt 1987

John C. Dressler : Dennis Brain a Seventieth-Birthday Tribute
The Horn Call, October 1991, pp.47ff

Humphrey Carpenter : Benjamin Britten A Biography
London, Faber & Faber Limited 1992, pp.184-5, 198, 365

Ian Wagstaff : A Very Nice Person
Yvonne Brain talks to Ian Wagstaff about her husband, Dennis
The Horn Magazine, Vol.2, No.1 1993, pp.14-15

Piers Burton-Page: Philharmonic Concerto
The Life and Music of Sir Malcolm Arnold
London, Methuen 1994, pp. 32, 67, 69

Allan Blackwood : Sir Thomas Beecham The Man and Music
Ebury Press 1994

Paul Campion and Rosy Runciman : Glyndebourne Recorded
Julia MacRae Books 1994

Dennis Brain commemorative plaque
ICRC Summer 1995/Collector news

A Celebration of 50 Years
Philharmonia Orchestra 1995

Musical Knights
John Hunt 1995

Makers of The Philharmonia
John Hunt 1996

Leopold Stokowski Discography-Concert register
John Hunt in collaboration with the Leopold Stokowski Society 1996

Peter Heyworth: Otto Klemperer His Life and Times. Vol.2, 1933-1973
Cambridge University Press, 1996. page 250-251:

Robert L Marshall : DENNIS BRAIN ON RECORD
A Comprehensive Discography of his Solo, Chamber and Orchestral Recordings
Margun Music,Inc. 1996

Yukihiro Okitsu : Dennis Brain on Japanese labels
ICRC Autumn 1996/Letters

Lyndon Jenkins : The RPO's early years ; Brain in demand
ICRC Winter 1996

Michael Smith, Frank Andrews, Ernest and Ernie Bayly Jnr. :
Columbia Graphophone Company Limited
Columbia "DX" and "YBX" 12 inch Series of 78 RPM Discs 1930-1959 A Discography
Matrix Publishing 1997

Richard Osborne : Herbert Von Karajan A Life in Music
London, Chatto & Windus 1998

James Blades : Drum-beater of the world ; Brain drain
ICRC Spring 1998

Alan Sanders : Walter Legge 1906-1979 Words and Music
Duckworth 1998

Michael Thompson : Hindsight
The BBC Music Magazine Critical Appraisal Dennis Brain Page 65
BBC Music Magazine, November 2000

Alexander Kok : A Voice in the Dark, The Philharmonia Years
Emerson Edition, 2002

Stephen Gamble : A Horn Virtuoso's Writings
Horn Player, vol 4, no 3, December 2007

Stephen Gamble : Dennis Brain 1921-1957
pp.4-6 (concert programme), Dennis Brain 50th Anniversary Concerts
Tuesday 6 November 2007, Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall
Wednesday 7 November 2007, 7.30 pm., Bedford Corn Exchange
Philharmonia Orchestra, 2007/8 Concert Season

Christopher Dyment : Toscanini In Britain
Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2012

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