{"id":44,"date":"2024-07-25T18:16:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T18:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phil-c.com\/wphi\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2025-11-25T13:45:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T13:45:56","slug":"orchestral-trombone-playing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/phil-c.com\/wphi\/orchestral-trombone-playing\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchestral trombone playing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As principal trombone of the wonderful Kensington Symphony Orchestra since the mid 1990s, and with countless other orchestras, I’ve enjoyed …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the most beautiful symphonic moments, from Mahler 2 (KSO, recorded in the Barbican on somebody’s phone I think – the very end is here:<\/a> … the rehearsal is a bit funnier here<\/a>).<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mahler 2 last movement – trombone chorale, KSO Barbican performance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

… every Mahler symphony, every Bruckner symphony, every Tchaik, Sibelius, Brahms, Dvorak, Schumann, Walton \u2026 well, pretty much all mainstream symphonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When this crescendo to an octave jump (18s) works out, it makes all the waiting, all the sitting in rehearsals, all the traveling, money, beer and time … worthwhile as it crowns a tremendous musical moment.<\/em> (KSO, Cadogan)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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