Quiz: Mystery scores

[lukeottevanger]

Penthesilea is very different, I must say - not really comparable with this song, though very fine in its own way. The opera Venus is very beautiful, but the songs are really the core of things - there are many fine song cycles, available in equally fine readings by singers such as Fischer-Dieskau. But I'd recommend above all hearing this Elegie, which is like the rotting, fading late-Romantic flip-side of Schumann's Eichendorff Liederkreis, moving towards a cathartic and truly Brahmsian conclusion. After that, I'd try things such as the Notturno for baritone and string quartet, which is a work of extraordinary quality, detail and impact.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Penthesilea is very different, I must say - not really comparable with this song, though very fine in its own way. The opera Venus is very beautiful, but the songs are really the core of things - there are many fine song cycles, available in equally fine readings by singers such as Fischer-Dieskau. But I'd recommend above all hearing this Elegie, which is like the rotting, fading late-Romantic flip-side of Schumann's Eichendorff Liederkreis, moving towards a cathartic and truly Brahmsian conclusion. After that, I'd try things such as the Notturno for baritone and string quartet, which is a work of extraordinary quality, detail and impact.

Recommendations duly noted. (Schumann's Eichendorff Liederkreis is one of my favourite cycles of the Romantic period, by the way. Come to think of it - Schumann also has those trance-like, spellbound passages as in Herbstgefühl 2...)

[Guido]

LO 235 is Rachmaninov's G minor Piano Trio.

[lukeottevanger]

Recommendations duly noted. (Schumann's Eichendorff Liederkreis is one of my favourite cycles of the Romantic period, by the way. Come to think of it - Schumann also has those trance-like, spellbound passages as in Herbstgefühl 2...)

Yes, the Schumann is one of my favourites too - it's just a sequence of gems! I mentioned it specifically, because Schoeck sets some of the same poems in the Elegie - and Schumann's vernal, early Romantic woodland visions turn into something more meditative, more aware of decay. The two complement each other very well.

Guido - yes, that's right. 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

# 230 - Glenn Gould, "So you want to write a fugue?"

[lukeottevanger]

That's the one! Want to hear a file of that one too? Very clever stuff!

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

That's the one! Want to hear a file of that one too? Very clever stuff!

Yes! I need a lullaby (1.26 AM...)

[lukeottevanger]

Might have to hold fire on that one for now....

[(poco) Sforzando]

236 is from Britten's settings of seven Michelangelo sonnets, #3 I think.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Might have to hold fire on that one for now....

Then I'll have to get to sleep without Glenn Gould's support...

Good night.

Johan

# 237 - Wyschnegradsky, 'Etude sur le carré magique sonore', opus 40 (1956)

[(poco) Sforzando]

I'll put up a few:

[(poco) Sforzando]

Four more:

[Mark G. Simon]

The first of Szforzando's 2nd group is Ruggles' Sun Treader

The third of the same group is the Finale of Berwald's 3rd Symphony.

The fourth of that group is from Rimsky's Le Coq d'or

[Guido]

Sfz2 is obviously Feldman, but there isn't a solo piano piece (as I assume this is) in his Durations series so I guess that this is part of his Last Pieces for Piano?

Cheers for the Sun Treader - fantastic looking score and a fantastic piece.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Sfz2 is obviously Feldman, but there isn't a solo piano piece (as I assume this is) in his Durations series so I guess that this is part of his Last Pieces for Piano?

Cheers for the Sun Treader - fantastic looking score and a fantastic piece.

Well done so far, gentlemen. Four correct identifications out of eight samples. The Feldman is indeed from Last Pieces. Keep going.

[Mark G. Simon]

The third of Szforzando's first group is clearly by Ferneyhough. Superscriptio perhaps.

[Guido]

Sfz1 is Little White Donkey by Ibert I think... I remember people playing that at school.

[(poco) Sforzando]

My examples are evidently far too easy, except perhaps for two of them.

[lukeottevanger]

More posted while I slumber sweetly....of the remainder, no 2 (i.e. Sfz's 3rd one so far) is Griffes, The White Peacock. 100% sure, so I've included it on the list.

[lukeottevanger]

Is your remaining one the Liber Scriptus which Verdi originally wrote for the Manzoni Requiem before turning it into the version we all know in 1875?