Quiz: Mystery scores

[Guido]

My remaining ones are all outrageously unfair. Can't believe I set them!

59: Suite - Vocalise, Op. 41, No. 2 Medtner
61: Elegy for cello and piano by Gordon Jacob. I played this one so much when I was a teen - love it still!
62: The Fall of the Leaf for solo cello by Imogen Holst
64: Prelude for cello and piano by Moeran.

[Luke]

Aww, Guido, obviously I knew all those! If only you'd just given me another 5 minutes.... 

[(poco) Sforzando]

Aww, Guido, obviously I knew all those! If only you'd just given me another 5 minutes.... 

That's what they all say . . . .

[Guido]

Erm... little help here guys? Mystery Score without the score! Actually driving me mad.

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,16797.msg429537.html#new

[Luke]

Here's a great one I got today - couldn't believe I actually stumbled across this score....

[karlhenning]

No idea.  And while I am assembling more to post myself, I feel they must be appallingly obvious : )

[Luke]

The one I just posted is about the least subtle piece of music ever composed, and very politically incorrect....it's trash, but it's fun trash!

Anyway, Karl, bring them on!

[karlhenning]

I'll scan some pages tonight, after I put in my dutiful hour of work in at the viola sonata.  I'll try to be organized enough to post images tomorrow evening.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Here's a great one I got today - couldn't believe I actually stumbled across this score....

Judging from the font, it looks modern Russian, and if very politically incorrect, sounds like one of those Soviet apparatchiks. Maybe a piano concerto by Khrennikov, Tcherepnin, or Khatchaturian, but I couldn't pin it down based on the score samples I've found.

[Luke]

Yes, that's all good guesswork, except it isn't a concerto, and it isn't by one of the composers you mention. But it has been called 'the most recognisable piece of the Soviet era'.

[karlhenning]

Too heavily scored for Peter & the Wolf ; )

[The new erato]

Yes, that's all good guesswork, except it isn't a concerto, and it isn't by one of the composers you mention. But it has been called 'the most recognisable piece of the Soviet era'.

One of Prokofiev's homages to Stalin or the like?

[Luke]

Much more widely recognisable. To millions of Russians. There's a hint there, if ever there was one.

[Luke]

Come on, lads. Time marches on....

[Drasko]

Come on, lads. Time marches on....

Время, вперед!

[Luke]

Bingo! Composer?

[The new erato]

Russian National Anthem.

[Drasko]

Georgi Sviridov

[Luke]

Drasko got it already..


I'm uploading an mp3 and the score for your delectation. Brutal, functional orchestration, doesn't pull any punches!

[Luke]

It's the main theme from Sviridov's music for the film Time, Forward! - (Время, вперёд!, Vremya, vperyod!) - hence my clue above, which Drasko got immediately. It was used for years as the signature tune for the news programme Vremya

Score (of the suite from the film) - http://www.mediafire.com/?3ytqntgtzmzgyim
mp3 (of the main title only) - http://www.mediafire.com/?m0izdkwim0ynzaw

Short film of Russian constructivist art using this piece as a soundtrack that I just found
http://www.nfb.ca/film/tower_bawher