Robin Newton quotes Richrad Morrison as writing:

>Similarly, nearly every conductor used to "adjust" the unusual
>orchestrations of Schumann's symphonies, until Bernard Haitink's
>recordings revealed that Schumann's scoring worked perfectly well
>if you took the trouble to balance it properly.

I thought it was Leonard Bernstein who recorded Schumann's symphonies in
their unadulterated orchestrations, with this intent, back in the '60s.
I still have these LPs in my archives.

len.