Need Advice On Writing For Full Orchestra

[Frodo]

Alrighty then... can I add Carl Nielsen?

Why, sure!!

It just so happens that I'm mocking up the strings of Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto in VSL this week.

Why? Because it's a veritable playground of boldness and subtlety that presents great challenges for emulation, requiring more than a casual study of just how real string players approach this work.

I'll see your Nielsen and raise you a Paul Hindemith!

[MIDI Life Crisis]

It just so happens that I'm mocking up the strings of Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto in VSL this week.

Dang! Can I come watch?

[Frodo]

It just so happens that I'm mocking up the strings of Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto in VSL this week.

Dang! Can I come watch?

No cameras, please!

[MIDI Life Crisis]

No cameras, please!

Who are you? The freakin' A.M.P.A.S.?

[Frodo]

No cameras, please!

Who are you? The freakin' A.M.P.A.S.?

No. I just don't want to break your camera!

[djc]

+1 for Mussorsky Pictures and orch by Ravel. There is (used to be) a score with the piano below the orch that is very valuable for learning how Ravel rethought the piano. I used this when working with Kent Kennan (also a good book that is updated by Don Grantham). After you absorb the Ravel version, then check out the others to see how they heard it.

I would also suggest Bartok for percussion.

[kgdrum]

Did you know that Leopold Stokowsky also orchestrated "Pictures"?

http://www.naxos.com/news/default.asp?o ... ews&type=2

just added that to my collection it is very nice.

the performances that have been grabbing me lately have been Bartok Concerto For Orchestra Fritz Reiner /Chicago Symphony(In Living Stereo)
i always seem to like Reiner w/Chicago Symph
also Stravinsky conducting Stravinsky Columbia Symph. it is really interesting for me to hear the composers interpretations of his own works.
I am not a composer or orchestrator but these are amazing performances as well as great recordings that anyone who wants to hear good examples of classical music should give a listen.