Dennis Brain
Sunday 8 May 2005 15:30-16:00 (Radio 3)
Tom Robinson presents the series in which leading musicians of today reflect upon the iconic reputations of past performers.
For a horn player like Michael Thompson, there can really be only one icon, Dennis Brain. As soloist, chamber musician, orchestral section leader and composer's muse, Brain changed expectations of the instrument and all this within a life cut short by a car crash in 1957.
Brain's iconic reputation is revealed through recordings of Mozart, Britten, Hindemith and Marin Marais.
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