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Deryk Barker wrote:
>BTW I know what you mean, the brass at the end of the 5th definitely
>sound tired - but this is one of the toughst of all symphonies on the
>brass players; not for nothing did the practise arise in Vienna (I think
>it's in the Schalk edition) of employing additional brass players simply
>to reinforce the others in the final coda. According to Jochum they were
>known as the 11 Apostles - "Judas, of course, being absent" and he still
>used to do this in concert even using the respectable Nowak edition of the
>score. His reasoning being what I have outlined above.
"Other schemes are also possible: in Amsterdam, for example, from
Z until bar 583, apart from the passages marked . . . 2, only the
additional brass are used. This allows the hardworked brass players
of the regular orchestra almost 20 bars in which to recover, so that
they can re-enter at the beginning of the Chorale with fresh
brilliance."
Eugen Jochum
Nick
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