Orchestrations of Chamber/Solo Music

[Iota]

Then there are selections from his Etudes Tableaux in gorgeous orchestrations by Ottorino Respighi:

Thanks for posting, I can't remember having heard those before. As you say, gorgeous, and at times eye-opening orchestrations.

[Roasted Swan]

Thanks for posting, I can't remember having heard those before. As you say, gorgeous, and at times eye-opening orchestrations.

Rachmaninoff was asked to do them himself but didn't want to so he shovelled the job off onto Respighi.

[pjme]

and

Claude Debussy:
Six épigraphes antiques [orchestration par Ernest Ansermet
6 Épigraphes antiques (1914-15) Orchestrated (1977) by Rudolf Escher (1912-1980)
many versions on YT.

[Iota]

Rachmaninoff was asked to do them himself but didn't want to so he shovelled the job off onto Respighi.

Thanks, funnily enough that was the one thing I did remember about them, just not the actual arrangements ..   But very glad to finally get to hear them as they're really top drawer.

[pjme]

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[lordlance]

https://yanmaresz.com/

Added. Thank you. Greatly appreciated.

[pjme]

[lordlance]

Very interesting that a Bartok SQ got arranged (I say that deliberately because it is for a string orchestra and not a full symphony orchestra):

[DavidW]

That is an absolutely brilliant orchestration @lordlance thanks for sharing!

To the point where if someone says that they are struggling with Bartok's SQs I might point at this recording, it might open the doors for them.

[Luke]

Percy Grainger's radical orchestrations of Debussy's Pagodas and Ravel's Vallee des cloches are standout examples of the species.   In his trademark fashion he reimagines the orchestra, piling it high with stacks of metallophones. Brilliant!

There's also this one of Bruyeres

[Edit - sorry, I see that the Pagodes one has already been posted, together with Caplet's orchestration]

[(poco) Sforzando]

Has no one mentioned Schoenberg's orchestration of the Brahms 1st Piano Quartet?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Sound nice! Thank you for the post.

[lordlance]

Rather randomly I found an orchestration of Braunfels' String Quintet: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9sl8XIO3CTfSf_eLHpgNRWFkMN5XUbdR