The Clip Quiz - Violin Concertos II

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03 - Don't be confused, he was not related to the family that tossed hundreds of waltzes.

04 - This Florentine composer, a pupil of Pizzetti, moved to America with the help of Heifetz... he settled somewhere in the west coast and contributed to the music of about 250 films.

R Strauss and M Roszca (or however it's spelled)

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Beriot?

Right, and this work isn't one of his concertos. It has more to do with ballet.

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R Strauss

Yes.

M Roszca (or however it's spelled)

Rozsa had a similar bio, but he was born in Hungary.
The violin concerto he wrote for Heifetz reveals the composer's praise for his own Jewish roots.

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Castelnuovo-Tedesco. What a name BTW; the new; german castle.

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Castelnuovo-Tedesco. What a name BTW; the new; german castle.

Right. His second violin concerto: I profeti, premiered in 1933 by Heifetz and Toscanini. I think the only recording available is that one by Heifetz and Wallenstein, with the LAPO.

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I am sorry for abandoning the game, but I have been very, very busy these days. Perhaps next week I can come back to drop some clues and answers.

In the meantime, I'll drop a rare work: the violin concerto in b minor by José de Monasterio.
http://rapidshare.com/files/94354751/Monasterio.VC.zip

The funny Polonaise that is the third movement beats Karlowicz, Lipsinski and others.

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No problem. Now hold your breadth for 8 minutes.

And again... for six

http://es.youtube.com/v/RydWCy6YtRI

Just look at the gestures of the women when she listens what the guy is about to play

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Here he plays the complete work:

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=84gQqwg4dss

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Beriot?

Yes. It was his Scene de Ballet, Op. 100. Perlman recorded it in Concertos from my childood.

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02 - a Pavane, a d minor requiem, Élégie, Pelleas et Melisande.

06 - Is this actually a violin? This is a work you can hear in many, many different arrangements: piano/violin, piano/viola, piano/cello, guitar/violin, orchestra/??? ...   

07 - Born in Verviers, he was heard in Brussels in 1828 by other great violinist already named here, who offered to give him lessons. About this concerto, Berlioz said it's a "symphony with a violin solo".

08 - The very clue to identifying this clip is at 00:56 (Provided you've also heard Kreisler's).

09 - Born in Bologna in 1879. He later took lessons with Martucci, Rimsky-Korsakov, Bruch. He wasn't very comfortable with Mussolini's regime.
       About his piano concerto: "The idea of a Mixolydian mode comes from the music theory of ancient Greece. However, what the ancient Greeks thought of as Mixolydian was very different from the modern interpretation of the mode.".

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His early style owed much to the aleatoric experiments of Witold Lutosławski, Krzysztof Penderecki and George Crumb. Later works included elements of Latvian folk music. His works are generally extremely clear and communicative, with a solid and muscular sense of harmony. Lyrical passages may be followed by agitated dissonances, or interrupted by sombre sections with a march-like feel. He made extensive use of minimalist techniques as well.

11 - If Rubinstein doesn't want to play your first piano concerto, this guy here can premiere it.

12 - Listen carefully, is it just one soloist?
       A tip:
[mp3=200,20,0,center]http://www.senar.ru/mp3/Saint-Saens-arr_Swan.mp3[/mp3]

13 - I thought Maciek would rapidly guess this pole.  His later years were plagued by heart disease, aggravated by obesity and workaholic habits. His health grew so precarious that he often had to play recitals sitting in an armchair.

14 - He also composed 07. This work in particular is a short compilation of American well known tunes.

16 - He is the dedicatee of a famous d minor solo sonata. As the prodigy he was, he could play Liszt's first piano concerto as well as the Beethoven Violin concerto. Later on, as the great teacher he was, he taught Ferras, Grumiaux, Gitlis, Haendel.
      This work here is not strictly a violin concerto, but sounds more like a twenty some minute capriccio.

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19 - He belonged to a family of Spanish composers (brother Ernesto composed, nephew Cristóbal later composed). He was also a member of the "Group of the Eight" (The Spanish version to the Russian Five  ).

20 - A violin... just one violin? The sonata for two violins he also composed sometime sounds as a string quartet.

[mp3=200,20,0,center]http://www.musikarpatia.com/mp3/Mp3samples/ForTwo/Ysaye1Sample.mp3[/mp3]

22 - His students include Hovhaness, Jan Novák, Shanet and Bacharach.
       He wrote about 400 works and was very kind to the idea of mixing different instruments when writing concertos:
for flute, violin and orchestra
for piano trio and orchestra
for violin, cello, oboe, piano and basoon
for two pianos and orchestra
for string quartet and orchestra
for harpsichord and chamber orchestra
for two string orchestras, piano and timpani

23 - I think they took the score of this work out from the family's safe box, they let the Finnish violinist, orchestra and conductor play it, and it went back to the lockbox again.
      The version you hear everywhere doesn't come with this cadenza, neither with the pizzicato at the beginning of the third movement.

24 - A Czech violinist and composer who studied under Sevcik. At the age of 30 (1910) he purchased the "Emperor" Stradivarius. Not only he played, but he also composed 6 violin concertos.
       His son, Rafael Jeroným, was a famous conductor.

26 - A floppy selection I did here, I'm repeating composers: the guy who composed this also wrote 14. This work is not a violin concerto, but it look more like a Passionate Fantasy.

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19 Roberto Halffter