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Go to http://www.tromboneexcerpts.org/ and click on Pines/Appian way and then click on Chicago Symphony with James Levine to hear the loudest ending ever from Vernon and Pokorny. WOW

Pretty amazing stuff. Great site..

A GREAT Pines closing, of a great recording. I do like the Montreal, too.

Listen to the various "Ride" recordings too. I always go for the rhythm first, THEN to other factors. My former favorite was the Vienna/Solti 1966 Decca...no longer.


Berlin/Abbado 1993 DG blows it away. AMAZINGLY accurate. Compare that to the Buapest recording...1 out of 3 16ths are inaudible.

The London recording has at least 5 different rhythms in the first trombone chorus. The second B strain isn't much better, but at least the 16ths are consistently heard.

I've heard maybe 5 recordings by Levine and the Met...can't stand any of them! (Great to hear a contrabass bone, though!)

Philly/Ormandy 1991 RCA is my second favorite.

I could spend a lot of time on that site...someone needs to do something similar for tuba. Very cool!


The Chicago/Barenboim is great in the second excerpt, when the tuba joins in low, except pitch and rhythm are MISERABLE from the string basses. The brass sounds wonderful. Durn tham fiddles!

Gosh; call me an overly-critical old crab, but the trombone section entrance (bar 4 of the printed excerpt that appears on the page OP points to) is unbelievably out of tune to my ears; especially the Gb's.

But it is loud.

the loudest ending ever from Vernon and Pokorny. WOW

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