Mystery music!

[Brian]

Well, here is a very enjoyable piece of music which you have [almost certainly] never heard before.

Listen, enjoy, comment perhaps, take a guess if the spirit moves you, and eventually someone will reveal, or if nobody knows then I will reveal, the composer.  

[mp3=200,20,0,center]http://sites.google.com/site/brianrein/Home/Afantasticaldance.mp3[/mp3]

And perhaps as an incentive ... whoever identifies the piece first should, as the "winner", post their own "mystery music" for another round. Could be a fun little game.  

[mahler10th]

Well, here is a very enjoyable piece of music which you have [almost certainly] never heard before.

Listen, enjoy, comment perhaps, take a guess if the spirit moves you, and eventually someone will reveal, or if nobody knows then I will reveal, the composer. 

[mp3=200,20,0,center]http://sites.google.com/site/brianrein/Home/Afantasticaldance.mp3[/mp3]

And perhaps as an incentive ... whoever identifies the piece first should, as the "winner", post their own "mystery music" for another round. Could be a fun little game. 

Composer: Frederick Delius

[mahler10th]

Right then.  Have I won or what? 

The name of the mp3 you've posted is "A fantastical dance."  Well, I cheated by looking this up in google and found Delius as a match for writing something of a very similar name.  So I have cheated.  But if I'm right, let me know and I'll post a my own symphonic poser with no clues.

[bhodges]

John, your latest avatar made me burst out laughing...

Sorry, back on topic! 

--Bruce

[greg]

John, your latest avatar made me burst out laughing...

Sorry, back on topic! 

--Bruce

Oh my god..........
i nearly wet myself.

[Brian]

Right then.  Have I won or what?  

The name of the mp3 you've posted is "A fantastical dance."  Well, I cheated by looking this up in google and found Delius as a match for writing something of a very similar name.  So I have cheated.  But if I'm right, let me know and I'll post a my own symphonic poser with no clues.

As a matter of fact, that's a name which I made up myself. The real title is quite different.  

[mahler10th]

Cheating doesn't pay.

[jimmosk]

Darn it all, I have heard this before, but can't come up with where. I'm going with somebody from early-20th-century Italy. The orchestral style reminds me of Respighi, though I think I'd recognize most of his works, so I'll go with a pair of nearby guesses: Something by Marco Enrico Bossi, or one of the little-heard light compositions of Gian-Francesco Malipiero, say one of his Symphonic Fragments from 'Il Finto Arlecchino'.