Re: Dennis Brain's horn [was: Period vs Modern instruments?]

Ken Moore wrote:
> 
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jerry Kohl
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> >This is an extremely interesting observation, and a point I had not
> >previously noticed. I just put on two recordings in succession (Frank Llloyd
> >and Michael Thompson's), and the note in question is clearly being lipped
> >down
> 
> Only very good players would dare: it's so easy to flip to the next note
> down in this register!
> 
> >(with some considerable effort) from the 14th partial--which by rights
> >ought to be the octave above the seventh, notated as B-flat in the score,
> >but sounding almost a quarter-tone flatter (the "septimal seventh"). If
> >Britten had wanted to be sure of the 13th partial, however, he might have
> >notated A-flat instead of A-natural, since that is slightly closer (in
> 
> Yes, I wish he had chosen Ab or Bb, to avoid the possible confusion.
> 
> >12-equal) to the 13th partial, though extremely sharp of it, and the next
> >lower partial is the G. In a just-intoned schema, however, the (notated) A,
> >tuned relative to C and/or E, is so much lower than in 12-equal that the
> >13th partial is much closer to it than to A-flat.
> >
> >Can you point me a little more precisely to this Czech recording? I would
> >very much like to hear it.
> 
> Sorry, I heard it once, on BBC Radio 3, and can't even remember when.

Czech -- could it have been a Naxos?
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Peter T. Daniels                       [EMAIL PROTECTED]