Roger Hecht wrote of Bohm's recording of Mozart's Requiem:

>...  Anyway, the recorded sound of that Bohm recording is so thick that
>you don't always hear the trombone parts, many of which also support
>vocal lines.

True, I couldn't hear the trombone parts in some cases. But I'm really
missing something like a counter-melody played by woodwind or trombones....

>Far be it from me to disdain this one [the Levin completion], but there
>are too many times that it sounds like a bubbly Broadway musical to em.
>But I'm sure this is a minority opinion.  (I'm not that convinced by the
>"completion" either.)

Broadway? Oh dear!

>And thus have you earned wrath of a million trombone players.

Only a million? I think the mood of the text is miles away from the musical
mood..........

Mikael
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