Posted by Rick Denney on June 17, 2003 at 11:08:54:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: use of F tubas in Europe posted by jeff on June 17, 2003 at 10:20:13:
My beef with the Catelinet recording is not the sound concept, but the airy and stuffy tone, the fuzzy attacks, the double vibrations, the lack of dynamics, and the brutal and non-lyrical articulations that I understand were not in the composer's original score. I'm a fan of Vaughan Williams from before I was even aware that he composed a tuba concerto, and Catelinet's performance doesn't sound like Vaughan Williams. I'm not sure it matches with the sound concept of any tradition. If that was the British sound concept in 1954, then that makes Fletcher that much more revolutionary, it seems to me. But it sounds to me like there was no sound concept at all.
And it wasn't the instrument--Jacobs's rendition of the Vaughan Williams is flawed, of course, but there is no comparison between it and the earlier recording.
Rick "calling it like he hears it" Denney