Quiz: Mystery scores

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Good afternoon, Luke! I have several chores to attend to the coming hours, so this player will be absent... If you want to post new ones, by all means do! About identifying the remaining ones - perhaps a few more minuscule clues could do the trick...

"Bye for now!"

[lukeottevanger]

OK, the old clues, with added extras....

298 - A pianist-composer known for his sheer effect; a piece in a particular state. This is the one obliquely referred to on the forum's busiest thread in the last day or two.
305 - A great, great composer, much loved by many here, including on this thread, on which he has been present more than once, and recently too. But not associated with this sort of thing. Mostly because he couldn't actually play this instrument. Identified as Berlioz
310 - Wrote an opera on the same subject as an early tone poem by Richard Strauss. Macbeth... Piece identified, Bloch Concerto Grosso
318 - This family wealth of this composer came from his father's work on an infamous, ambitious project supervised by a famous Baron who thought he should have instead had the title 'aquaduc'.  This Baron was also a fine musician, apparently, and I never knew that before! Baron Hausmann... Piece identified, Chausson Poeme
319 - Subject of a currently active thread, mentioned more than once on this one, among other things a pianist of whom even Cortot was in awe, but for whom the piano was a second instrument.  The pedal marks, details of string notation and general look of this score are unique to this composer in my experience. Composer better known as a violinist.
322 - Composer of a recently identified score. Might help to look at the piece in a little detail. You did notice the quotation, then?
323 - Unarguably one of the great pieces of chamber opera of the last 30 years, this. The three singers you see are all the opera needs, though they take on two roles each. Here we see the composer's mastery of pastiche - and his twisted sense of humour as, in private reverie over what has just been sung on the previous page, the three singers unwittingly break it up into a more suggestive form..... 'Oh that he held me fast by the cock.... I come....I am aroused....'  0:)  (<--- funnily enough, those guys are very good ciphers for the three singing at this point!) The main action of this opera is set in a building of very specialised type from which the work takes its name. Piece identified, Maxwell Davies The Lighthouse
324 - This work was almost forgotten by its composer; even when it was rediscovered within his lifetime, he never mentioned it and he never even named it properly (beyond the title Composition for Orchestra, which is not the name I'm looking for). It is linked thematically and chronologically with an early opera of the composer, but is probably more an expression of grief following the death of his son. His daughter died later, and the music which flowed from that event is much more famous. Interestingly, this piece is practically the only instance of D minor in the composer's output - he was obviously aware, as we all are, of the tawdry nature of that key and its aficionados, and he had personal key preferences a little way flat of this. My oh my, I may have said too much in that clue, but that's not surprising, really.
325 - As far as I remember, the first composer from his country to appear on this thread. A student of two great contemporary masters. This piece is somewhat balletic. The country is an island, and is named after a composer. Or maybe that's the other way round...
332 - Relatively recently deceased composer of 'Requiem for a dead poet' - shares a middle name with the main male protagonist of 341. Very much one of Alban's men...
342 - Should be clear who. No, not him, the other one....  Kodaly, Johan has ascertained.
344 - one of the pieces I loved most as a teenager - extraordinary texturally and timbral invention, and superlative orchestration, so that it sounds as fantastic as it looks, not just the grey sludge it could have become. Deliberately scored for a Haydnesque orchestra. The composer - whose name is also that of an important political figure of the last century from the country of 325 - is self-taught, but when younger played the national instrument of his country and in a rock band (called Influx, apparently). His music is both ultra-complex and instantly accessible. Look at the clue for 325 to help you with the relevant part of this clue.
34 - palindromic. Who does that sort of thing....? I has a piece by him a ling time ago, which was also partly palindromic; my sample showed the middle point of the palindrome. That score was guessed by someone from the same country as this composer. And he won't let us forget it....

[lukeottevanger]

15 more, then. Be patient whilst I upload them! As I said, some come from extremely well-known works. And I'm not just saying that.

LO 346

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LO 347

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LO 348

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LO 349

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LO 350

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LO 351

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LO 352

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LO 353

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LO 354

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LO 355

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LO 356

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LO 357

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LO 358

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LO 359

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last one

LO 360

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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 - Paraphrase über "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" - (Johan)
297 - Valen - Piano Sonata no 2 - (Johan)
298 - ? -
299 - Wolf-Ferrari - Violin Sonata in A minor - (Sforzando)
300 - Theo Ysaye - Piano Concerto op 9 - (Johan)
301 - Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto no 2 - (revealed by Luke)
302 - Tchaikovsky - The Tempest - (Sforzando)
303 - Cage - from Songbooks - (Johan)
304 - Busoni - Concerto for piano and strings op 17 - (Johan)
305 - Berlioz - Rustic Serenade - (revealed by Luke)
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 - Bloch - Concerto Grosso no 1 - (Sforzando)
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 - Bruckner - Christus factus est pro nobis - (Johan)
318 - Chausson - Poeme - (Johan)
319 - ? -
320 - Heinrich - A Chromatic Ramble of the Peregrine Harmonist - (Johan)
321 - Lili Boulanger - Vielle priere bouddhique - (Johan)
322 - ? -
323 - Maxwell Davies - The Lighthouse - (Johan)
324 - ? -
325 - ? -
326 - Prokofiev - Classical Symphony - (Sforzando)
327 - Shostakovich - Fugue in D flat major (from the 24) - (Sforzando)
328 - Sibelius - Symphony no 3 - (Mark)
329  - Copland - Piano Fantasy - (Sforzando)
330 - Stevenson - Prelude, Fugue and Fantasy on Busoni's Faust - (Johan)
331 - Musgrave - Narcissus - (Johan)
332 - ? -
333 - Schubert - G major quartet - (Sforzando)
334 - Nielsen - Flute Concerto - (Johan)
335 - Haydn - Farewell Symphony - (Sforzando)
336 - Elgar - Gerontius - (Johan)
337 - Dukas - L'Aprenti Sorcier - (Sforzando)
338 - Strauss - Die Frau ohne Schatten - (Sforzando)
339 - Berlioz - Harold in Italy - (Sforzando)
340 - Stravinsky - Threni - (Sforzando)
341 - Schoenberg - Gurrelieder - (Johan)
342 - Kodaly - ? - (Johan)
343 - Berlioz - Romeo et Juliette - (Sforzando)
344 - ? -
345 - ? -
346 - ? -
347 - Saint-Saens - Organ Symphony - (Sforzando)
348 - ? -
349 - Tavener - The Protecting Veil - (Guido)
350 - Orff - Carmina Burana - (Sforzando)
351 - ? -
352 - ?Tchaikovsky - Capriccio Italien - (Mark) -
353 - Bizet - Symphony - (Sforzando)
354 - ? -
355 - Haydn - Symhpony no 6 - (Mark)
356 - Rachmaninov - Piano concerto 3 - (Mark)
357 - ? -
358 - Ravel - Daphnis et Chloe - (Mark)
359 - Tavener - Coplas (Ultimos Ritos) - (Chrone)
360 - Verdi - Aida - (Sforzando)


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 - Faure - Violin Sonata no 2 - (Luke)
50 - Sullivan - The Mikado - (Mark)
51 - Schutz - Ich ruf zu dir - (Luke)
52 - Puccini - La Rondine - (Luke)
53 - Puccini - Messa di Gloria - (Luke)
54 - Prokofiev - Piano Concerto 4 - (Luke)
55 - Peter Susser - Quatre Bêtises - (revealed by Sforzando)
56 - Copland - 8 Dickinson Songs - (Luke)
57 - Hindemith - The Four Temperaments - (Luke)
58 - Bernstein - Songfest - (Luke)
59 - Bernstein - Songfest - (Luke)
60 - Grieg - Slatter - (Luke)
61 - Beethoven - Kakadu Variations (Luke)
62 - Beethoven - Fugue for string quintet - (Luke)
63 - Prokofiev - Overture on Hebrew Themes - (Mark)
64 - Hindemith - Der Schwanendreher - (Luke)
65 - Verdi - Quartet - (Luke)
66 - Sullivan - Cox and Box - (Luke)
67 - Bernstein - Candide - (Luke)
68 - Sondheim - A Little Night Music - (Luke)
69 - Gershwin - An American in Paris - (Luke)
70 - Egge - Symphony no 3 (Louisville) - (Luke)
71 - Butterworth - A Shropshire Lad (Luke)
72 - Falla - El retabloe de Maese Pedro - (Luke)
73 - Wolf-Ferrari - IL segreto di Susanna - (Luke)
74 - Beethoven - Ah, perfido - (Johan)
75 - Berlioz - La Mort de Cleopatre - (Luke)
76 - Boyce - Symphony no 1 - (Luke)

Set by Guido
42 - Shostakovich - Symphony no 10 - (Johan)
43 - Part - Silouans Song - (Luke)
44 - ? -
45 - W Schuman - Song of Orpheus - (Luke)
46 - Ives - Sunrise - (Luke)
47 - Feldman - Cello and Orchestra - (Luke)
48 - Harrison - Suite for Symphonic Strings - (Luke)
49 - Barber - Cello Concerto - (Luke)
50 - Ruggles - Angels - (Luke)
51 - Prokofiev - Sinfonia Concertante - (Luke)
52 - ? -

Set by Greg
32 - Haydn - Symphony no 99 - (Sforzando)

Clues to Luke's remaining ones

Clues to Guido's remaining ones

[Mark G. Simon]

I should probably check with the recordings before venturing guesses, but what the heck:

LO 356 is Rach. 3rd piano concerto, 2nd movement

358 is the choral interlude in Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe.

[lukeottevanger]

Those are both correct, Mark. Keep going!