Klarinet Archive - Posting 000442.txt from 2004/05

From: Allen Levin <alevin@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Rosen on text and performance
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 13:08:23 -0400

If I'm paying to hear a Beethoven symphony, that darn well better be what I
hear - not a reorchestration. (I seem to recall that he added an Eb
soprano clarinet to the 9th.) If I'm paying to hear an orchestration of
Mussorgsky, I understand that it is such, and all I want to know is whether
it is the Ravel orchestration or the Stokowski orchestration.

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

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