Quiz: Mystery scores

Luke · July 04, 2010, 04:06:56 AM

Raff's 5th Symphony...

How about this simple one? I've loved this piece ever since I was tiny - a guilty pleasure, perhaps!

(poco) Sforzando · July 04, 2010, 04:33:42 AM

Quote from: Luke on July 04, 2010, 04:06:56 AM
Raff's 5th Symphony...

How about this simple one? I've loved this piece ever since I was tiny - a guilty pleasure, perhaps!

Luke gets it, and then comes back with Rimsky's Russian Easter Overture.

Luke · July 04, 2010, 05:32:35 AM

Yes, he does! And then he comes back further with these two....and there is a common link between them, btw, not inherently but in something said about them on a CD liner note...

(poco) Sforzando · July 04, 2010, 05:37:33 AM

Is 471 Nancarrow?

Luke · July 04, 2010, 05:39:23 AM

No. Too hard for that!

Luke · July 07, 2010, 01:41:57 AM

OK, more detailed clue on those two - both are mentioned (or mentioned by implication) in the liner notes of a CD. This CD, of New Complexity piano pieces, includes one particular piece which the performer, writing in the notes, says is one of the very hardest pieces in the entire piano literature. The two samples I give are amongst the select other few 'hardest ever' that he mentions in those notes. He's a pianist who ought to know, btw, because he's probably the leading specialist in this sort of repertoire, so the names of these pieces are sometimes trotted out on 'hardest ever piano piece' threads by people like me who are prepared to take his word for it.

Anyway, here are a few others if anyone wants to have a go:

Luke · July 07, 2010, 02:48:31 AM

One more - ought to be easy, but I love this one! Programatically allusive notation, very nifty....

Luke · July 07, 2010, 02:51:52 AM

Can't resist - one more:

karlhenning · July 07, 2010, 03:48:19 AM

474 is from the 2nd movement of the Rakhmaninov Second Concerto. Trust me to scoop in the low-hanging fruit! ; )

Luke · July 07, 2010, 03:57:08 AM

....except, trust me me to put in a trick one, and that's the one, I'm afraid! Mean, huh!?

(the clue is that this one is in A, the concerto movement is in E)

(poco) Sforzando · July 07, 2010, 04:03:01 AM

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on July 07, 2010, 03:48:19 AM
474 is from the 2nd movement of the Rakhmaninov Second Concerto. Trust me to scoop in the low-hanging fruit! ; )

Though if you look not too closely you'd think it could be the Moonlight Sonata!

karlhenning · July 07, 2010, 04:03:40 AM

Oh, I am just sore as a sunburnt neck now! LOL

Luke · July 07, 2010, 04:06:06 AM

Well, it was a trick one, and clearly you aren't very far at all from the right answer, actually.

Dax · July 08, 2010, 03:04:01 AM

So do 471 + 472 relate to the recording of Richard Barrett's Tract made by Ian Pace?
I can't identify the pieces quoted, but I'll take a punt at Ferneyhough Lemma-Icon-Epigram and Finnissy Verdi transcriptions (the second did vaguely look like a transcription of something). Pace also mentions Xenakis's Evryali, Clarence Barlow's Çogluotobüsisletmesi, Walter Zimmermann's Wüstenwanderung, , Stockhausen Piano piece X, Bussotti's Pour clavier, and, no doubt oh so much more. [Unfortunately he does like to drop names (anyone seen his repertoire list or read any interviews?) even if he must be an extraordinary sight-reader to be able to play all those notes.]

Luke · July 08, 2010, 03:08:10 AM

You're absolutely right except in the pieces you guess at - the correct answers are amongst the others you mention (Lemma-Icon-Epigram is implicitly not one of the 'hardest pieces', I'm guessing, as it is on that disc and yet not talked about in that paragraph)

So, I suppose I might as well say, the first one is Barlow's wonderfully titled Çogluotobüsisletmesi and the second Zimmermann's Wüstenwanderung - this first page is pretty playable, but later on....

Nice work!

karlhenning · July 08, 2010, 03:28:28 AM

Bravo, Dax!

Luke · July 08, 2010, 03:48:58 AM

The others of my new ones are all by much more famous composers; the most minor of them is still an extremely well-known name. And the one that Karl thought was Rachmaninov's 2nd PC - well, it is Rachmaninov, just not the PC.

I suppose I ought to reveal the answers to all my unsolved ones, from all those months ago- there are some nice ones in there.

karlhenning · July 08, 2010, 03:52:33 AM

Quote from: Luke on July 08, 2010, 03:48:58 AM
The others of my new ones are all by much more famous composers; the most minor of them is still an extremely well-known name. And the one that Karl thought was Rachmaninov's 2nd PC - well, it is Rachmaninov, just not the PC.

Thanks! Wasn't sure whether we were talking a quotation by someone else, which would leave me utterly at sea.

Luke · July 11, 2010, 04:37:17 AM

) - Albeniz - Asturias - (Luke)
3 - Bartok - Allegro Barbaro - (Maciek)
4 - Prokofiev - Toccata - (Luke)
5 - Rachmaninov - Isle of the Dead - (Luke)
6 - Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire - (Luke)
7 - Sibelius - Valse Triste - (Maciek)
8 - Chopin - Prelude (A minor) - (Luke)
9 - Mahler - Ruckert Lieder - (Cato)
10 - Palestrina - Sicut cervus - (Maciek)
11 - Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings - (Mark)
12 - Beethoven - Eroica - (Luke)
13 - Holst - The Planets - (Luke)
14 - Shostakovich - Symphony no 7 - (Luke)
15 - Wagner - Parsifal Prelude - (Luke)
16 - Bartok - Quartet no 2 - (Luke)
17 - Sibelius - Symphony no 4 - (Mark)
18 - Shostakovich - Quartet no 7 - (Mark)
19 - Satie - Embyrons Dessechees - (Luke)
20 - Brahms - Horn Trio - (Mark)

Set by Taxes
1 - Faure - Cello Sonata 1 - Guido
2 - Alkan - Concerto for solo piano - Luke
3 - Haydn - Sonata - Luke
4 - Liszt - Sonata - Luke
5 - Beethoven - Emperor Concerto - Luke

Set by Sforzando
77 - Vorisek - Symphony in D - Luke
78 - Dittersdorf - Quartet in G - Rappy
79 - D'Indy - Istar - Luke
80 - Elgar - In the South - Luke
81 - Raff - Symphony no 5 - Luke

Set by Rappy
1 - Schubert - G major Quartet - Luke
2 - Brahms - Hungarian Dance 1 - Luke
3 - ? -
4 - ? -
5 - ? -
6 - Beethoven - E minor Quartet - Luke
7 - Mahler - 9th symphony - Luke
8 - ? -
9 - Brahms - Piano Concerto no 2 - Luke

Set by James
1 - Zappa - The Black Page - Luke

karlhenning · July 11, 2010, 07:32:54 AM

Great, Luke, thanks! This week I'll undertake an extension of my own offerings.

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