Dennis Brain Ensemble: Mozart Divertimento K. 270, etc. - Columbia 33CX 1687

Jacket GOOD / LP NM / UK pressing This outstanding LP from Columbia (33CX 1687, English EMI pressing, blue/gold label, mono – no stereo edition exists) features the Dennis Brain Ensemble in stunning “live” performances, first broadcast on 5 September 1957 (four day’s after Brain’s death), with “a royalty on the sale of this record…being donated to the Dennis Brain Scholarship Fund”. The Dennis Brain Ensemble was comprised of:             Gareth Morris, flute             Leonard Brain, oboe             Stephen Waters, clarinet             Cecil James, bassoon             Dennis Brain, horn             George Malcolm, piano The performances preserved on this LP include the following works: Gordon Jacob: Sextet Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento No. 14 in B-flat Major K. 270 Jacques Ibert: Trois Pièces Brèves for Wind Quintet Wrote the critic M.M. in her review for the March 1960 issue of The Gramophone: “With most British composers of comparable standing (and many foreign ones of cons