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Sidney Fell

Author: graham
Date: 2002-02-15 12:22

A few threads back the subject of this player was raised and the question was where and what did he perform?

I decided to do some search word surfing and here is what came up:

Joined the US tour by the Philharmonia in 1955 under Karajan, playing fourth and E flat. Bernard Walton played first that time.

Recorded Pierrot Lunaire in 1952. Doubt this is available on CD. Walter Lear plays bass clarinet on this.

Played background music to a "talking book" of Olivier reading extracts from the Bible. That could be quite a novelty I think. Apparently Sony do it on 6 CDs (expensive I imagine) but the company involved suggests it is not available from Sony, hinting they have some left over.

A recording as what seems to be the backing group to Ornette Colman in a live 1965 recording issued by Polydor. Cecil James played bassoon, one of the last french bore bassoonists, wonderful subtlety.

Apparently there is a Fell Clarinet Quartet comprising former students. They played a gig in Peterborough (UK) in July 2001. If they are tuned into this site it would be nice if they had something to add.

That's it. Very little given how well respected the man was. Rather confusing in fact.

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