Marius

Hey Christian!

This is a wonderful little arrangement; I think it's quite good. I actually quite like the more complex harmonies you used - they keep the piece from sounding too stereotypical and stale.

Something about measure 12 didn't really convince me musically, I'm having a hard time pinpointing exactly what about it I didn't like, but it interrupts the mood you've just set with the swell to the preceding few bars. Try out some other harmonies/arrangements for that little section and see if you can smooth it out a bit, if you can feel the slight jar to it that I'm referring to.

Besides that though, I'm quite impressed. My only concern will be to see how you orchestrate the rest of it, since this string arrangement is not particularly "grand". With the rest of the orchestrating then, the focus will be on working with the melody and making sure it gets some prominent statements within the piece.

For now, just go over the string arrangement once more and see if you can fix up that part I mentioned and make any other changes you'd like. When you're happy with it, post it up and we'll go from there.

Good work!