Quiz: Mystery scores

[Guido]

You're welcome, Guido. I wanted to make them Direct Downloads, but I have used those up at Rapidshare. It must have taken more time.

Luke - any Bax there in #314? (#315 is Berg, not #314...)

No they had some kind of 'happy hour' according to the site - was able to download both instantly.

According to my itunes 'Guido' composers from A-C (i.e. those which I have most recordings of) are Ades, Bach, Barber, Bartok, Beethoven, Brahms, Bridge and Carter. I don't think 312 is any of the more famous ones (and I rarely talk about them here)... Of Barber's the only thing I think it could be would be the Souvenirs for piano (maybe the hesitation Tango as it has some Tango features)... But I really need to give it more thought.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

A nice Vertigo link, Guido:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1ukxgNgyPU

[Guido]

Yes I'm certain it's Barber's Hesitation Tango now having listened through all of the piece. I had, until now, dismissed this whole suite as minor Barber - entertaining trifles, and had never really listened to it that focussedly. But as I listened through it just now, I am again struck by Barber's genius for perfectly combining harmony, melody and rhythm in such an elegant and beautiful way, and always perfectly suited to the situation. So while this may be 'light music' and light compared to, say the Cello Concerto or Piano Sonata, within it's own genre it is an absolutely supreme example of this type of music. The era that he perfectly conjures seems to hark back to an earlier time (maybe the 20s?) and its not an ironic pastiche either. Barber's Excursions for piano are similar in a sense in that they are his only foray into the Jazz/classical genre, and yet he masters this hybrid style with incredible elan and brilliance - as good as (or better than) any of his American contemporaries who plumbed this route more thoroughly. In both these cases, the voice is still unmistakably Barber's while completely assimilating the alien style into his own sound world - another testament to his creativity and genius as an artist.

Thanks Luke for making me reconsider this work!

[(poco) Sforzando]

Might need to rethink some (well, one) of the assumptions in this paragraph.

Let's narrow down, then. I think it's Beethoven.

[Guido]

Let's narrow down, then. I think it's Beethoven.

I wouldn't wait up pocosfz... It's 2.11am here!

Good night!

[(poco) Sforzando]

I wouldn't wait up pocosfz... It's 2.11am here!

Good night!

While some sleep, others upload.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Four more:

[(poco) Sforzando]

Note btw that sfz50 gives you only a bit of the whole texture. If you know it, the piece is unmistakable. If I provided the entire score, it would be child's play.

[lukeottevanger]

These look interesting! Thanks. Some first attempts, one by one as I come up with them:

58 - Bernstein, Songfest?

[lukeottevanger]

The last one, 60, looks a bit like Grieg - the Slatter, perhaps. I need to check....

[lukeottevanger]

Yes, it is, no 3 (Slatter = 'Norwegian Peasant Dances', op 72)

[lukeottevanger]

56 - Copland, 12 Dickinson Songs

[lukeottevanger]

52 - Puccini, La Rondine

[lukeottevanger]

A brief hiatus in the score-identifying...

According to my itunes 'Guido' composers from A-C (i.e. those which I have most recordings of) are Ades, Bach, Barber, Bartok, Beethoven, Brahms, Bridge and Carter. I don't think 312 is any of the more famous ones (and I rarely talk about them here)... Of Barber's the only thing I think it could be would be the Souvenirs for piano (maybe the hesitation Tango as it has some Tango features)... But I really need to give it more thought.

Yes I'm certain it's Barber's Hesitation Tango now having listened through all of the piece. I had, until now, dismissed this whole suite as minor Barber - entertaining trifles, and had never really listened to it that focussedly. But as I listened through it just now, I am again struck by Barber's genius for perfectly combining harmony, melody and rhythm in such an elegant and beautiful way, and always perfectly suited to the situation. So while this may be 'light music' and light compared to, say the Cello Concerto or Piano Sonata, within it's own genre it is an absolutely supreme example of this type of music. The era that he perfectly conjures seems to hark back to an earlier time (maybe the 20s?) and its not an ironic pastiche either. Barber's Excursions for piano are similar in a sense in that they are his only foray into the Jazz/classical genre, and yet he masters this hybrid style with incredible elan and brilliance - as good as (or better than) any of his American contemporaries who plumbed this route more thoroughly. In both these cases, the voice is still unmistakably Barber's while completely assimilating the alien style into his own sound world - another testament to his creativity and genius as an artist.

Thanks Luke for making me reconsider this work!

No problem Guido! That was some pretty awesome deductive work, if I may say so. Spot on, of course.

Meanwhile...

Let's narrow down, then. I think it's Beethoven.

Correct.

Back to the scores....

[lukeottevanger]

Maybe later - have to get the kids ready for school!

[lukeottevanger]

Luke - any Bax there in #314?

Sorry, missed this - yes, you are right 

[lukeottevanger]

Taking into account the new ones, but not including the names of the ones I've identified as Sforzando hasn't confirmed yet:
TTT

First list, in two parts:
Part one
and
Part two

Second list (one long part)

New list:

Set by Luke
293 - Tchaikovsky - Festival Overture on the Danish National Anthem - (Sforzando)
294 - Tovey - Piano Concerto - (Johan)
295 - Wagner - Fantasy in F# minor - (Sforzando)
296 - Wagner-Wolf -? - (Johan)
297 - Valen - Piano Sonata no 2 - (Johan)
298 - ? -
299 - ? -
300 - Theo Ysaye - ? - (Sforzando)
301 - Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto no 2 - (revealed by Luke)
302 - Tchaikovsky - The Tempest - (Sforzando)
303 - Cage - ? - (Sforzando)
304 - ? -
305 - ? -
306 - Beethoven - Adagio (mandolin/piano) - (Sforzando)
307 - Berg - Four pieces for clarinet and piano - (Sforzando)
308 - Arensky - Piano Trio no 1 - (Sforzando)
309 - Antheil - Sonata no 2 'The Airplane' - (Greg)
310 - ? -
311 - Berstein - Wonderful Town - (Sforzando)
312 - Barber - Hesitation Tango - (Guido)
313 - Carpenter - Krazy Kat - (Sforzando)
314 - Bax - Harp Quintet - (Guido)
315 - Berg - Abschied - (Johan)
316 - Bernstein - La Bonne Cuisine - (Sforzando)
317 - ? -
318 - ? -
319 - ? -

Set by Greta
1 - Berio - Sequenza IXb - (Luke)
2 - Dallapiccola - Quaderno musicale di Annalibera - (Luke)
3 - Stravinsky - Petrouchka - (Luke)
4 - Brahms - op 119/3 - (Luke)
5 - Adams - Harmonielehre - (Luke)
6 - Sibelius - Kullervo - (Luke)
7 - Grainger - Lincolnshire Posy - (Chrone)

Set by Chrone:
4 - Rogers - Guadalcanal March - (Mark)
5 - Hermann - Vertigo - (Luke)

Set by Sforzando
49 - ? -
50 - ? -
51 - Schutz - Ich ruf zu dir - (Luke)
52 - Puccini - La Rondine - (Luke)
53 - ? -
54 - ? -
55 - ? -
56 - Copland - 8 Dickinson Songs - (Luke)
57 - ? -
58 - Bernstein - Songfest - (Luke)
59 - ? -
60 - Grieg - Slatter - (Luke)

Links to clues:
First basic clues to LO 293-302
first follow-up clues to LO 294-302
second follow-up clues to LO 295-302

[lukeottevanger]

51 is (obviously) Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesus Christ - composer = Schutz, SWV 326, from his Kleine geistliche Konzerte

[lukeottevanger]

Oh yes, GGGGRRREEG, one of your Antheil guesses was right on my 309 - it's his second sonata, 'The Airplane'

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

#314 is a Piano Quintet. Bax?!