Your Six Favourite Orchestrations

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Btw: Stravinsky was arrested for his Star Spangled Banner arrangement, for damaging state property or something like that

In that case, Beyonce should be thrown into the deepest dungeon.

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Btw: Stravinsky was arrested for his Star Spangled Banner arrangement, for damaging state property or something like that

Can't see what the fuss was about... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1taQl-wOmo

[Tevot]

Hello there,

There are 3 that spring to my mind:

RVW : English Folk Song Suite - orch Gordon Jacob

Debussy: Petite Suite - orch Henri Busser

Brahms : Four Serious Songs - orchestrated / elaborated by Detlev Glanert

Best Wishes,

Tevot

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I've amended m original list of 6 items, having remembered the orchestration of Elgar's Organ Sonata by Gordon Jacob. One critic rated it so highly that he called the result "Elgar's Symphony no. 0"

[Serial_Apologist]

Debussy: 6 Epigraph Antiques (orch Rudolf Escher)

Boulez did a lovely orchestration of these many years ago, which I'd forgotten.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The Birds by Respighi is a beautiful politically incorrect orchestration of baroque keyboard pieces.

[Tevot]

The Birds by Respighi is a beautiful politically incorrect orchestration of baroque keyboard pieces.

I'd agree. Anybody else going for a song?

[BBMmk2]

I'd agree. Anybody else going for a song?

Agreed! :) I always think that as long as the orchestration/arrangement/transcription, is done tastefully, then why not?

1Brahms/Schoenberg: piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op.25.
2 Bach/Schoenberg Prelude & Fugue in Eb.
Bach/Elgar Fantasia in G minor
Handel/Harty Messiah(?)
(If I may be so bold as to mention my work in progress of Mahler's 6th Symphony(First Movement!! :)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Handel/Harty Messiah(?)

Shouldn't that be the Water Music and Royal Fireworks suites?

[Bryn]

Boulez did a lovely orchestration of these many years ago, which I'd forgotten.

Not strictly, I think you will find. He took what was remained of Debussy's instrumentation of the recited Chansons de Bilitis and reconstructed the celesta part, which had not survived. Arthur Hoérée also made a separate reconstruction of the celesta part.

My introduction to the work was via a CBS LP with Vera Zorina as the reciter. Would that that recording might appear on CD, or as a decent download. Still, I do have a couple of other recordings of the work.

Oh, and re. orchestration, just about everything Stravinsky eventually scored for orchestral forces.

[Lento]

The Birds by Respighi is a beautiful politically incorrect orchestration of baroque keyboard pieces.

Would be fun to hear the keyboard version of "Going for a Song"!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I've been trying to play the keyboard version of "La Poule" but my hands keep on colliding. I need a Moor piano or a 2 manual harpsichord.

[Ferretfancy]

Here are a few for the pot:-

WEBERN Ricercar ( Already mentioned)

BERLIOZ Marvellous version of Roget de L'Isles Marseillaise, complete with chorus and baritone soloist!

BERIO Boccherini's Guitar Quintet No. 8 in C major "La ritirata di Madrid " Brilliant, and laugh out loud!

GORDON JACOB William Byrd Suite - the bells at the end are a nice touch.

Finally, STOKOWSKI's " Symphonic Synthesis of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov - more fun than the original, I'd say !

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WEBERN Ricercar ( Already mentioned)...

So elegant. So lucid.

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Finally, STOKOWSKI's " Symphonic Synthesis of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov - more fun than the original, I'd say !

Similar for his Parsifal synthesis?