Klarinet Archive - Posting 000096.txt from 2000/02

From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: [kl] Kell's dates - was Reginald Kell
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 21:24:32 -0500

All Kell's 12 inch and 10 inch LPs for the Decca Gold Label Series
are without dates. Does any one have (access to) any of the American
Hifi review magazines of the time that would indicate when they were
first made available and enlighten me?

Someone have pencilled [July 26/52] on my copy
of the 10 inch Brahms Trio Decca DL 7524
The very few European re-issues of these (on
Brunswick) do not help much, although they have dates.
For example, the 10 inch Mozart Concerto on
Brunswick AXL 2002 is dated 56.10. and the coupling
of the same performances of Brahms Trio and
Mozart Concerto on 12 inch AXTL 1071 is dates 57.3.

Kell's first US recording is reckoned to be the Brahms Sonatas
with Horszowski on Mercury MG 10016 but again it has no
date on either the sleeve or the disk itself, - a chunky piece of plactic.
It possibly rivals the Strauss Duet-Concertino
recorded by Gerald Caylor (cl) on Capitol (a Decca label)
CTL 7007 or P.8115Z as the first clarinet LP anywhere,
(reviewed in The Monthly Letter, London, in May 1951).
If anyone is wondering, the sleeve notes note that Gerald Caylor
was solo clarinet of the Portland Symphony Orchestra,
the Janssens Symphony of Los Angeles, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
and played for 20c. Fox. He was also on the staff of UCLA.
As far I know, he did not make any other appearances as a soloist.
Is that correct?

Thanks
Mike Bryant
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