Checked in tonight to catch up on this thread, and noticed some postings of the Ravel Pavane for a Dead Princess. For me personally, one of the very most beautiful versions of the opening horn solo was Myron Bloom's, with the Cleveland Orchestra and George Szell conducting. It is on an LP with the Debussy La Mer. Anyway, Mr. Bloom died just the other day - horn players all over the world are mourning him. I listened to his Pavane that day. Quite a bit different sound from Stefan Dohr, who although of course a very great player, is definitely not everyone in the horn world's king, especially from the musical side.....horn playing has changed in New York a very great deal over the last decade or two, Frogman, especially if many are expressing a preference for Dohr, who is pretty much a polar opposite of what used to be the New York horn style. Although that was not my style (and neither is Dohr's or Bloom's), it is sad to see it almost completely disappearing now.