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In Reply to: RE: Orchestral transcriptions of items originally composed for the Piano posted by John C. - Aussie on February 11, 2015 at 16:09:06
I have not been a great fan of orchestrations of piano music either. There have been quite a few different orchestrations of Mussourgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. I don't dislike those.
Stokowski orchestrated a number of piano works. His orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition is interesting, but I think his orchestrations of some of Debussy's piano music more successful. He also orchestrated some Mozart, I think, but I've never heard recordings.
Mahler's Kindertotenleider also was originally composed for piano and voice, which he later orchestrated. I think it turned out pretty well. Myaskovsky also created his orchestral work Links from earlier piano pieces. Novak did a good job orchestrating his symphonic poem, Pan. And I think many or Ravel's orchestral works actually originated as piano pieces. But these are compositions orchestrated by the original composer.
On the other hand, I find Respighi's orchestrations of some of Rachmaninoff's Etudes-Tableaux deeply soporific, whereas the original piano works are truly engaging.
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
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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!
I have to disagree about the Schoenberg transcription of the Brahms Piano Quartet. I love the last movement, xylophone and all. It's just a barrel of fun as far as I'm concerned. The Mona Lisa with a mustache is a joke, and so is this...
Is it the Simon Rattle recording you're speaking of ? I enjoyed this
alsoI think it depends on how much "reverence" you assign to particular pieces
of a Composer's music whether changing its form will be "enjoyable" to
you (He,he,he... I would imagine musicians have a harder time "accepting"
Orchestrations, particularly those who are Chamber Music players !)(I'll have to give this a play today;Thanks for mentioning it !)
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I haven't heard the Rattle. My favorites are Craft/Chicago and Dohnanyi/Cleveland (live performance released by the orchestra in a 10-CD set).
The Dohnanyi / Cleveland live 10 CD set sounds like something I'd like
to have to go along with my Anthology of the RCO live, Vol. 5 & 6, 14 CD
box sets.
Having all these discs on Hard Drive has been a real treat!! I can't recall
any listening session I've had for a while when I haven't included listening to something from these sets. Very nice live recordings with many highly acclaimed conductor's of the 20yr time span covered between both sets.
I purchased both of these sets at Tower Records,Center City , Philadelphia
several years ago !
I seem to remember reading someplace that Rachmaninoff actually gave Respighi some ideas regarding the Etudes-Tableaux pieces. So he wasn't opposed to the orchestration -- although he was not interested in doing that himself. I guess I just imprinted on the piano version.
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
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