Recuerdo, a Memory

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A nice light orchestration .... quite sweet.

Hauntingly beautiful, Luis!

I really enjoyed the caveat at the end, the final percussive sounds of the bassoon.  The diminished-scale, or half-whole scale, (I'm guessing, reading left of the barline) lead in by the flute, a beautiful highlight!

Ruffage effects by the trumpets, please!  Growls and glissandos, also a choice selection of mutes, including, one saxophone, I suggèst.  🙂

Nicely done! I have three suggestions:

1. The moving line in the viola in bars 2-3 is lovely but then it's gone. Bring it back elsewhere in the piece. Not too much, but you can use this inner texture to your advantage.

2. The octave unison in the violins and violas from bar 15 to 20 is too overpowering. Get off the long note (or let a single solo violin sustain it) and let some different textures in the winds come through.

3. Last 3 bars, let the trumpet double the timpani only on the last and first eighths of the bar.

22 minutes ago, Tom Statler said:

Last 3 bars, let the trumpet double the timpani only on the last and first eighths of the bar.

I like that.

Well done. Rather beautiful. A bit short perhaps. More please 😊. A bit too much unison strings.

nice, love the orchestration. That ending major 7th is heavy.