Zarebski orchestrated

[Alan Howe]

Great, Marek. Thanks. That's a good example of the sort of ignorance on my part that I mentioned before. Of course, Amadeus remains Amadeus.

[semloh]

Back to the music, I regret that I must agree with Mike's reaction, namely that the orchestration detracts from the intimacy of the piece. As I listened, I kept thinking "this just doesn't sound right". Perhaps the orchestration has given too much prominence to the piano too at the centre, and reduced the remaining instruments to an accompaniment of variable integrity. The original quintet is a fine piece without any changes.

Are Mike and I alone in having reservations about it?

[Mark Thomas]

No, you're not. I first heard the orchestration last year and thought that it was a poor effort. I'm not against such arrangements at all and there are are some fine examples out there (we have a thread on the subject somewhere), but for me this one is simplistic and destroys the intimacy and immediacy of the Quintet without adding anything of its own.