Classical music is one of my favourites and I'm sure you had some effort producing this and this is audible.

A very transparent mix and that is, for me, part of the problems. I can't hear the slightly dull and intimate opera ambience that should come with this composition. Futhermore the sn and cyms should be way more to the background and definitely lower.
I'm missing a counterpart to the violins, too, like, even if low, violas and/or celli. The pan is too long weighted to the left side.
I think you forgot to adjust that little "attack bumb" in the violins at 3:13,xx.
And the piano sounds too intrusive.

With some adjustments in producing and mixing it could sound more realistic.

Don't get me wrong, pease, I'm not saying you did a bad job. In fact the opposite is true, but it's amendable - in my opinion.

 

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If the piano version was first, than your orchestral version is an even better work.

For me same atmospheric problem with the piano version. It is my personal preference to listen to this kind of music as an audience, not as the instrumentalist. If you prefer it the other way around, then you did a great job.

 

Last edited: Dec 20, 2017

Much better! That's it! Great! I got goose bumps, no joke.

Three little sugestions, if I may. I'd like some nice, decent and long reverb on the solo woodwinds. Wouldn't be correct for an orchestra, but would give them that lonely/lonesome touch, if you know what I mean. At the end I would lower he bass frequencies or make the corresponding instruments a bit quieter and I think the piano at the end is still too loud.

But besides that, fantastic. We've got a new champ around here.

 

Last edited: Dec 21, 2017