Immerse yourself in Brian... Listen to excerpts in the Listening Room

 From Hyperion/Helios

CDA67971/2       CDH55029

 From Toccata Classics and Toccata Press

       

TOCC0005                                                                                                TOCC00110                                               NEW - TOCC0113

From Dutton/Dutton Epoch

CDBP9798 CDLX7267 CDLX7263

Recent Naxos Brian

8.572641

 

 

8.572014                          8.572020

 

 

Gramophone: 'Self-recommending...'

The legendary October 1966 Boult performance of the 'Gothic' symphony, in digital mastering on the renowned Testament label (SBT2 1454).

 

SRCD295 Music On The Web review here.

 

 

 

The complete Hull Youth Symphony recordings are now re-mastered. The complete piano music played by Peter Hill has been transferred from the original LP recording, so appears to be not a true DDD remaster. Both are from Cameo Classics.

Some reviews: Musical Pointers  MusicWeb Sym2

Sym 4  .. and this on Gramophone's forum pages

The Brian 2 was a featured CD on Naxos' homepage. Listen to excerpts in the Listening Room.

The text of Reginald Nettel's 1945 book on Brian, "Ordeal by Music" is available from the Internet Archive Universal Library as a free download in both text-only format (somewhat difficult to read) and as an Adobe PDF reproduction of the printed pages.

The PDF also includes the book's three illustrations; a drawing of Brian by Frank Furnivall, the score of the end of "The Mad Maid's Song" and a reproduction of the last letter from Henry Wood to HB.

 

Click below to read web reviews of the  Naxos  'Gothic' (8.557418-19).

 MusicWeb1    Musical Pointers    Musicweb2

 Barnes & Noble  The Guardian  Cheap UK store

Other reviews at the  members' mini site.

Other Brian reviews at Classics Today

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