Without exception, these three pages from Klytämnestra’s nightmare scene have proven to be the most challenging in my entire career of orchestrating - my own work or anyone else’s. It’s harmonically complex, dense passages like these that justify Strauss’s huge, panopleic orchestral demands: the level of colors that can be applied to these complicated harmonies can only be achieved with the huge breadth of resources the original score requires. As the creative work on my reduced version nears its end, this is one passage I’ve been postponing due to its challenges. It’s now done, but I suspect will be adjusted once I hear it live.
A sneak peek to come in a few months...
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