Here's my latest release:
Listening to this now, I'm heartily encouraged by the piece, especially as Sieveking was much better known as a composer of piano pieces in the salon vein. To my limited understanding, I'd say it shows he had a good understanding of orchestral writing - of scale and sweep. There's certainly a good deal of drama. Does it sound somewhat Scandinavian to others?
I think in a real performance this would come across rather well, perhaps starting the first movement at a slightly quicker pace.
Some of the harmonies sound a little odd here and there, especially (for me) in the waltz/march-like finale - perhaps this is partly to do with the trials and tribulations of working from a manscript.
But it's interesting stuff! And you have my thanks for working on it!
Sieveking was Dutch, which is kind of Scandinavian-adjacent if not actually Scandinavian, though he was living in the US (Chicago specifically) when he wrote this. I think the deep brass section may be what gives it that flavor. 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, and tuba, and often unaccompanied by the other instruments - this is a feature of many Scandinavian composers I've found.
The score does give explicit BPM in the tempos, so I tried to honor them as much as possible.
I'll admit there are likely some errors in my transcription - between sloppy handwriting, badly weathered score, and some details being washed out in the scan (e.g. the barlines are all but invisible on some pages), this was one of the most difficult reads of any manuscript I've come across, not helped at all by the fact that some of the dissonance is clearly on purpose - he was using some more modern harmonies at the time, most notable in the opening of the first movement. This makes it much harder to identify when a dissonant note is intentional or a mis-transcription.