Richard Pennycuick ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>...  I recently heard Mravinsky's version of the 7th and apart from those
>"Russian " trombones, I thought it was quite magnificent.  What a pity he
>did not leave us a complete cycle...

Nothing wrong with them trombones - or trumpets or horns.  The sound of the
brass is what helped give Russian orchestras a Russian sound, whose demise
(the Russian National or whatever Pletnev's bunch are called, can certainly
play staggeringly well - their Russlan and Ludmilla is spectacular - but
they don't sound even remotely Russian) is a matter for regret IMHO.

Deryk Barker
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