Your Six Favourite Orchestrations

[Ferretfancy]

Seems that some board-members would still like to do much the same to Ravel for 'Damaging state Pictures at an Exhibition'!

As a matter of interest, do the original paintings still exist, and if so, where?

[BBMmk2]

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!! :)

NB I am pleased to say that I am in the last 15 pages of score from the one I am working from! :)

[Serial_Apologist]

NB I am pleased to say that I am in the last 15 pages of score from the one I am working from! :)

So: time-travel really can exist, then!

[amateur51]

Bristol was once called Bristowe, it is said, until the name-givers gave in to the local populace's well-known habit of putting an L on the ends of words ending -a or -o, eg tango > tangle.

I once spent a bemused afternoon with some community activists in that city who kept referring to "problems in the areal" which I took to mean poor TV reception

As they supposedly say in Liverpool "dey do do dat doh don't dey"

[mercia]

As a matter of interest, do the original paintings still exist, and if so, where?

can't find much information. http://www.stmoroky.com/reviews/gall...s/hartmann.htm

this BBC page seems to know where some of them are

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nhm5n

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Has anyone mentioned Tchaikovsky's Mozartinia Suite?

[Jonathan]

Liszt's own arrangement of Angelus for the 3rd Annees de Pelerinage - lovely stuff and too rarely heard

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

No- one has mentioned Les Sylphides, which has been orchestrated many times by the great and the good -Glazunov, Gretchaninov, Roy Douglas, Britten and Gordon Jacob. I haven't heard all of them, but I do think Roy Douglas's is particularly good, and whenever I play the Chopin Nocturne in A flat on the piano, lI cannot help thinking of the RD orchestration.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

And having recalled Beecham's Messiah, I forgot to mention the real genius arranger of the work: Mozart.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I forgot to mention the real genius arranger of the work: Mozart.

That has to be the worst typo of "Handel" I've ever encountered!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Well, I was rather under the impression that Handel was the composer, and that Mozart had tinkered with it some 4 decades later.

[Roehre]

That has to be the worst typo of "Handel" I've ever encountered!

It's Mozart's KV 572, dating from 1789

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Well, I was rather under the impression that Handel was the composer, and that Mozart had tinkered with it some 4 decades later.

Well, considering that quite a bit of Messiah is reworked material ... and that Handel continued to "tinker" after its first performance ... might it be politely suggested that such an "impression" could on this occasion be less secure than with other examples?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

It's Mozart's KV 572, dating from 1789

...and the penultimate movement is pure Mozart.

[pillow book]

Trawling a bit on old threads, but I couldn't resist putting a real 'cat' amongst the pigeons :big grin:

Kenton: Wagner. Just puts a smile on my face. https://youtu.be/2rPmzqYIPrE