Posted by Frank Lee on January 21, 2003 at 00:53:31:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Vaughan-Williams Concerto with Jacobs posted by Did you mean... on January 21, 2003 at 00:22:59:
Yep, the Downing is no barn-burner, but the performance is acceptable.
John Fletcher is to Vaughan Williams - tuba
as
Dennis Brain is to Mozart - horn.
I find Phil's editing to be invalid, because none of the nutty articulations that were added (to get around technical problems) are consistent with the accompaniment. Sometime, have a look at the original manuscript - rental score. If you look under all of the various conductors' pencil marks, you'll see a cleanly-composed and logically- (originally) articulated piece without any of the "uk-uh-tooh-aahh-puck-uh-tooh-aahh" stuff (added only to avoid tricky slurs) and note substitutions found in the Oxford.