Once, as a high school sophomore, when following a score and listening to a recording of a Russian orchestra playing Shostakovitch's suite from _The Golden Age_, I just about dropped my jaw when the baritone horn player on the record took the high concert D down an octave (a note even I could play at the time). That taught me that you may hear anything on a recording.
On another recording I heard a lot around the same time, my sister's favorite record of the same composers Fifth symphony (NY Phil, Lennie B.), I liked the effect the composer got in the first movement - as the tutti is building on the climactic open fifth whole notes before the end of the movement, the trombones would crash in on a quarter note, then rest before entering in the next bar for good. Later, when I got a score, I was quite surprised to see that they were merely coming in a bar early and trying to suck the note back in to their horns! Like I said - you're liable to hear anything on a recording.
RBH
David W. Fenton wrote:
Is there anyone on the list who plays contrabass and is familiar with Per questa bella mano? I could certain scan some of the score and put it up for people to look at, if they need to see it (also maybe an MP3 of the recording).
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