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Re: Sidney Fell

Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2012-08-22 20:32

Sidney Fell certainly was the clarinetist of the Virtuoso ensemble (formed in 1949). The only recording I have of him in chamber music is with this group playing Mozart and Beethoven trios (viola / Cello) made in 1958.
According to a conversation I had some years back, I think with Tony Lamb, they went into the studios to do a run through which the engineers recorded and they were then informed that that run through was actually the session so that is what was issued on LP.

Some docs I have seen show Sidney was principal of the LSO 1948 through 1954.
Colin Parr, for 33 years principal at the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, was another of Fell's pupils in the mid/late 1950s.

My impression of Fell's playing was that it was much more in the Thurston camp than the Kell one and since both he and Kell were considered as "principal" players I suspect that they would rarely if ever have played together

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