In Reply to: RE: Orchestral transcriptions of items originally composed for the Piano posted by Amphissa on February 11, 2015 at 19:44:41:
Those are a tour de force in my book!
The all-time prize for worst orchestration (in the sense of painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa - and I know this isn't just a piano piece, but. . . ) has to go to Schoenberg's monstrosity orchestration of the Brahms G-minor Piano Quartet!
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- Ooh! Don't agree about those Respighi Etudes-Tableaux orchestrations - Chris from Lafayette 20:50:01 02/11/15 (5)
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- RE: Ooh! Don't agree about those Respighi Etudes-Tableaux orchestrations - Amphissa 23:34:12 02/11/15 (0)