Klarinet Archive - Posting 000397.txt from 2004/05

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: RE: [kl] Rosen on text and performance
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 13:44:16 -0400

Allen=A0Levin wrote:

> the few changes I've heard by Mahler don't
> seem to be very good. They sound too much
> like Mahler - not like the actual composers.

I should learn to keep quiet on this topic, but ....

Presumably Mahler didn't want the composer's sound when he did the
reorchestration. Does this, by itself, make the changes 'good' or
'bad'?

For example, many people praise Ravel's orchestral version of
Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition". But should the orchestration
be judged by how well it suggests the original piano version, or by how
well it sounds on its own account?

(I won't state which version I enjoy the most because that would be
merely a personal preference.)

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