On Dec 31, 2004, at 6:58 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
And in terms of orchestration, while [Schumann] made a few elementary mistakes that anyone with an orchestration teacher would have been trained *not* to make,
Such as what, for example? His orchestration tends to be stodgy and plain, certainly, but "elementary mistakes?" I'd be interested to know of any.
I heard a wonderful recording recently of the 4th Sym. w. Barenboim and I forget wh. European orch. that has made me rethink even the "stodgy" label. Many details of the instrumental writing there made vivid sense to me in ways they never had before. And no, this wasn't the Mahler rescoring.
Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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