That said, the playing between the two sections is so in sync and accurate, that one might never know it was a duet.
Biased arguments aside, the playing is excellent. Ralph Sauer (who I'm very excited to meet this summer) is playing principal trombone and Jeff Raynolds plays bass. I love this opening to the fourth movement for its simple and somewhat fugal writing between scarce voices. It requires great agility and intonation of all the players and a huge attention to good section playing.
That is some quality alto playing right there. Sonny Ausman does a great job of "putting the meat in the sandwich" on this excerpt.
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