Quiz: Mystery scores

[(poco) Sforzando]

The most obvious ones for me right now:

310 Bloch Macbeth
350 Orff Carmina Burana
347 Saint-Saens Organ Symphony
353 Bizet Symphony

[lukeottevanger]

The most obvious ones for me right now:

310 Bloch Macbeth
350 Orff Carmina Burana
347 Saint-Saens Organ Symphony
353 Bizet Symphony

Correct except 310 - I didn't say this was from an opera called Macbeth, I said its composer had written such an opera. Yes, it is Bloch, however.

I was hoping 347 might fool people into thinking it was a piano concerto....   

So - one is Carmina Burana! As I said, some 'popular classics' here, of the 'Teresa' type. At least one more remaining, possibly more depending on your classifications of such things.

[Mark G. Simon]

I'm going to guess that 352 is the next to last page of Tchaikovsky's Capriccio Italian.

[(poco) Sforzando]

I'm going to guess that 352 is the next to last page of Tchaikovsky's Capriccio Italian.

I think you're right. 360 is from the ballet music to Verdi's Aida, Act 2.

[(poco) Sforzando]

305 - if this is piano music, the most likely guess is Berlioz. But what? I wonder if it's from one of those more obscure works like Lelio. Kind of a wild guess at this point.

[lukeottevanger]

Mark's right on the Tchaikovsky, and Sforz is right on the Verdi. He's also correct that 305 is Berlioz, but it isn't from Lelio.

[greg]

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....

gee, could this be Berg?

(or if not, Webern?)

[lukeottevanger]

No, and no. Berg may be music's most famous palindromist (palindromedary?), but this guy was even more obsessed by this and similar methods of construction. He used to live quite near to me when I was a little boy, but I don't claim to have had a huge influence on him 

Come to think of it, a 'palindromedary' would be this, wouldn't it....

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

# 318 is Chausson, Poème, op. 25 for violin and orchestra.

# 323 is Peter Maxwell Davies, "The Lighthouse"

[greg]

No, and no. Berg may be music's most famous palindromist (palindromedary?), but this guy was even more obsessed by this and similar methods of construction. He used to live quite near to me when I was a little boy, but I don't claim to have had a huge influence on him 

ummm...... Ronald McDonald?

[greg]

here's one, i was following along while listening, so i decided hey why not.......

[(poco) Sforzando]

here's one, i was following along while listening, so i decided hey why not.......

That's from the first movement to one of the Haydn London symphonies, 99 if I recall correctly.

[greg]

That's from the first movement to one of the Haydn London symphonies, 99 if I recall correctly.

Man, you're good!
The very first symphony i started listening to (along with Schubert's 8th) and got into.

[lukeottevanger]

# 318 is Chausson, Poème, op. 25 for violin and orchestra.

# 323 is Peter Maxwell Davies, "The Lighthouse"

Both correct - anyone else admire this opera as I do?

[(poco) Sforzando]

Both correct - anyone else admire this opera as I do?

Don't know it. I believe your Bloch could be the Concerto Grosso No.1, for String Orchestra with Piano Obbligato.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Mark's right on the Tchaikovsky, and Sforz is right on the Verdi. He's also correct that 305 is Berlioz, but it isn't from Lelio.

Didn't really think it was, but too lazy to verify. At least my guess told me I had the composer right. Berlioz wrote almost nothing for solo piano, so unless this is an arrangement, it could be the one solo piano piece in Groves's work list, an Album Leaf from 1844.

The resemblance of part of this piece to "He shall feed his flock" from Messiah must be coincidental (I hope).

[Guido]

LO349 is Tavener's Protecting Veil. Must give that another listen soon!

[Chrone]

LO 359 is Ultimos Ritos by John Tavener. (the quotation of the basso ostinato from the Crucifixus from Bach's B-minor Mass at the end was a big clue).

[lukeottevanger]

These are all correct. I'll give Chrone the Tavener, although the score I have, technically, isn't that piece but is Coplas. This went on to become the 5th movement of Ultimos Ritos, so Chrone is nevertheless right.

Sforzando, the Berlioz piece does contain a direct quotation, but it isn't of Handel, it's of a Neapolitan folktune also found in a sonata of Scarlatti's, though Berlioz's treatment of it is more extensive.

[(poco) Sforzando]

These are all correct. I'll give Chrone the Tavener, although the score I have, technically, isn't that piece but is Coplas. This went on to become the 5th movement of Ultimos Ritos, so Chrone is nevertheless right.

Sforzando, the Berlioz piece does contain a direct quotation, but it isn't of Handel, it's of a Neapolitan folktune also found in a sonata of Scarlatti's, though Berlioz's treatment of it is more extensive.

Is it the piano part to a vocal piece?