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Dennis Brain

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Dennis Brain, the greatest horn player of the twentieth century, at 100A commemorative box gathering his recordings as soloist, chamber musician and chamber ensemble player17 May 2021 marked the centenary of the birth of Dennis Brain, the greatest horn player of the twentieth century. The son of the celebrated horn player Aubrey Brain, he was discovered at the age of sixteen by the legendary EMI producer Walter Legge, who engaged him as principal horn as soon as he founded the Philharmonia Orchestra in 1945.”He had no technical problems. Over the whole range of his instrument he had mastered intonation, legato, staccato, dynamic range and, above all, a power of expression that no other horn player possessed. That all of this should be embodied in one young man was miracle enough. But there was a greater magic still: the individuality of his tone,” wrote Walter Legge. From the moment he first be