Posted by Steve Marcus on November 08, 2002 at 17:56:23:
In Reply to: Re: Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 5 posted by Rick Denney on November 08, 2002 at 15:46:44:
Well, that's unfortunate, but not a surprise. After all, Vaughan Williams' contemporary, Sibelius, gave up on our noble instrument after his 2nd Symphony...
Rick, thanks for the reference. Apparently, whenever one queries the instrumentation of a piece, one can check the publisher's website.
Of course, that means that one must know who the BLOODY publisher is...