Quiz: Mystery scores

[Maciek]

Yes, he could also record it and post the file here - that would save me the effort of buying the CD (yes, I know, there's the other piece too... )

82 - Nikolai Kapustin - 24 Preludes and Fugues op. 82 (1997)

[Maciek]

138 - I've never heard (or seen) it but could it be Carl Nielsen's Violin Concerto?

[BachQ]

138 = Sibelius Piano Concerto

[lukeottevanger]

Maciek's two guesses are correct. D's is less so.... 

[Maciek]

138 = Sibelius Piano Concerto

"For the Right Hand"??

[BachQ]

Happy Birthday, Luke!

[lukeottevanger]

Cheers!

You see, my clues were OK after all - just took someone to try! I must say I was quite surprised that Larry never got the Nielsen one, but then it is one of his slightly less well-known scores. By which I mean, I'm sure Larry knows it, but it isn't the first Violin Concerto to spring to mind. Though it's very fine and great fun.

[Maciek]

154 - Dvorak's 4th?? (I don't have a recording! )

[Maciek]

It's in D Minor so if I'm right - I shouldn't be the one guessing...

[lukeottevanger]

Very close. Look at the key signature. This is - I think - the finest movement in the Dvorak symphonies before number 5; it is also my favourite movement in any Dvorak symphony outside nos 7-9

Edit - that's not a D minor key signature, no!

[lukeottevanger]

(Dvorak is the bearded Czech I was referring to above)

[Maciek]

I didn't know if it was the 1st movt.

I've closed the window with the score and am too tired to look it up again. I'll just shoot that it's his no. 3 then...

Good night!

[lukeottevanger]

It is no 3, actually! Glorious music... I'm off to bed too, but not before I've listened to that movement again...

[Joe_Campbell]

Luke...you've got mail!

[Maciek]

I think 132 might be Enescu's Oedipe... (I can't make out the name of the instrument below the celesta, so no clue for me there... )

[lukeottevanger]

Yes - Oedipe is correct. This is one of the score's highlights, the death of the Sphinx - her role is interesting for its use of quatertones and something close to sprechgesang. The instrument I was pointing you towards is marked as 'scie', that is, [musical] saw - its use here, representing the Sphinx's dying wheezes, is quite notorious.

[Maciek]

Well, as always - this is proving to be the most educational thread GMG has (at least for me)...

(Not to mention the most humbling one. )

[lukeottevanger]

(Not to mention the most humbling one. )

I hardly think so!!

[Maciek]

I hardly think so!!

...said the Score-Guessing Monster!

Here are some straightforward ones:

GENERAL CLUE FOR NOS 27 to 38: none of them is Meyer's 24 Preludes or Serocki's Suite of Preludes. In fact, none of them are by Meyer or Serocki!

MM27 - guessed (quite unexpectedly in terms of speed, I have to admit ) by Luke

[Maciek]

MM28 - guessed by Luke