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Jack Brymer & David Lloyd play Works for Clarinet & Piano: Nimbus Rediscovered Recordings
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Catalogue Number
NI7121
Brahms & Weber Works for Clarinet & Piano [available in HD audio]
Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Hurlstone & Stanford
Jack Brymer and David Lloyd made two visits to the Nimbus studios. The first in 1973 to record Weber’s Grand Duo & Brahms’s Sonata in F minor, released on LP in 1977. The second session, in 1992, produced all the additional repertoire, released here for the first time. Jack Brymer was a UK household name, admired for his personal charm as much as the grace and fluency of his playing. His performances as an orchestral player and concerto soloist are well represented on record but his recital repertoire was overlooked. Hopefully these examples will partly redress that loss.
Nimbus ‘Rediscovered Recordings’
Nimbus is pleased to present the first two titles of a short series of recordings sitting on the shelves of the Nimbus archive that were ‘rediscovered’ during the 2020 COVID shutdowns. In those quiet days idle hands and minds posed the question: ‘So, do we have anything unissued that we can use to construct a release programme?’ This casual enquiry initiated a full investigation that has continued for five years and revealed more than fifty recording projects that, for one reason or another, never made it into the world. Some of these recordings go back to the founding of Nimbus in the late 1960s. There is no single reason to account for their neglect, and in every case we have found no justification for holding them back any longer.
The original analogue tapes, typically one-inch, four track, 30ips, transferred to a digital medium with no problem. We decided to archive them at 192k, thus preserving them for next generation use. Early digital tapes, from 1981/82, using U-matic cassettes, sometimes required surgical intervention to repair passages of lost signal, but having been stored in the same warm, dark room for their entire lives also transferred reliably for the most part.
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Reviews:
"In 1947, Beecham recruited Jack Brymer as the RPO’s principal clarinettist. Brymer’s limpid playing enhanced many orchestral recordings and accounts of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto, but there are few recital recordings, apart from these two in 1973 and 1992 with pianist David Lloyd. The first features the Brahms Sonatas and Weber’s Grand Duo, let down by poor piano sound. Almost 20 years later, Brymer’s tone is very well-preserved in Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata, Schumann’s Fantasy Pieces’, Op. 73, Hurlstone’s Characteristic Pieces and a graceful reading of the Stanford Clarinet Sonata." Andrew McGregor, BBC Music Magazine, 3 Stars