I once learned from a physics professor, and have never forgotten, that because it takes a certain percentage of a soundwave's full cycle (compression and rarefaction, though it's easier to draw on a graph as a rise and fall) before your ear can pin down a specific wave to a specific note, tubas and other low instruments can't play thirty-second and sixty-fourth notes -- the long wavelength of low pitches means your ear wouldn't be able to pin down the pitches, making everything sound fuzzy. I'm glad Ralph Vaughan Williams wasn't a physicist, because then he might not have broken the rules and produced his lovely, virtuosic Concerto in F minor for Bass Tuba and Orchestra, which manages -- successfully -- to pack some fiendish runs of quick notes into its two cadenzas. On this 1987 CA Gold Seal CD John Fletcher is the soloist and Andre Previn leads the London Symphony Orchestra. The latter forces also play RVW's mostly-tranquil Symphony #5 (which Aaron Copland once infamously panned as "like looking at a cow for 40 minutes". Phoo on you, Aaron!) and Three Portraits from The England of Elizabeth.

Disc, booklet, and case are in mint condition.

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About Jimmosk's CDs
I sell high-quality, little-known works, mostly 19th- and 20th-century. Many of the CDs are used, some are still-sealed, and most are the only one of that disc I have to offer. I sell a low volume of CDs, but that way I can listen to each (except the sealed ones :-) and describe the music to give you a better idea of what you're in for before you plunge into the unknown!
   -Jim Moskowitz