Posted by js on June 17, 2002 at 22:34:42:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Oscar Lagasse' posted by Jay Bertolet on June 17, 2002 at 22:16:27:
' seems to me that in the Lagasse, Novotny, Torchinsky, Jacobs days, the tuba players were less likely to try to "prove" something in the ff passages.
The first time that I heard "too much" tuba on a recording was a digital L.P. (not c.d.) of the Atlanta Symphony doing the Borodin - P. Dances...obviously a mic right in the bell. It seems that a lot of tuba players purchased that recording because that quantity of sound (except live and real) seemed to become the trend shortly thereafter. I'm pretty sure that the 1970's Chicago Symphony's LONDON FFrr (label) recordings (mics down everyone's bells / false balance, etc.) along with the "Let the horses run." (trombones and horns) attitude of Solti also was a large contributing factor.
Joe "who isn't at all sure that I spelled Novotny properly" S.