The Miraculous Mandarin [SEP] instrumentation
, tam-tam, xylophone, celesta, harp, piano, organ, choir, and strings.
Recordings.
Performances of the ballet suite outnumbered performances of the complete ballet until recent years. Recordings of the suite include:
- Antal Doráti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1953 on Mercury (possibly the most famous)
- Eugene Ormandy with the Philadelphia Orchestra
- Seiji Ozawa with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Esa-Pekka Salonen with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Zubin Mehta with the Berlin Philharmonic
amount of previously lost music.
Instrumentation.
"The Miraculous Mandarin" is scored for 3 flutes (2nd and 3rd doubling piccolo), 3 oboes (3rd doubling English horn), 3 clarinets, (2nd doubling E-flat clarinet and 3rd doubling bass clarinet ), 3 bassoons (2nd and 3rd doubling contrabassoon), 4 horns (2nd and 4th doubling Wagner tuba), 3 trumpets in C, 3 trombones, bass tuba, timpani, snare drum, tenor drum, bass drum, cymbals, triangle