Name that piece! The game

[listener]

If the question be "who by?", might that be the answer? 
- sounds more like Otto Joachim, though.

[Amfortas]

How about Fritz Kreisler?  Just a wild guess, I'm not a fiddle fan

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

How about Fritz Kreisler?  Just a wild guess, I'm not a fiddle fan

To my ears the music is clearly from the first half of the nineteenth century, with Mozart hovering in the background. That's why I say, with mszczuj who was there first - Ludwig Spohr.

[Amfortas]

To my ears the music is clearly from the first half of the nineteenth century, with Mozart hovering in the background. That's why I say, with mszczuj who was there first - Ludwig Spohr.

You're most likely correct. It's just not my kind of music

[listener]

I concur with mszczuj on Spohr Concerto 8, I have the score on hand and located the clip.   Makes me want to hear the whole piece now.  Nice deduction.

[Grazioso]

I know this very well, but I don't know what it is. No one note was strange to me in this clip. But I haven't listen to violin concertos consiously for years - only as sound wallpaper. So I have thought Wieniawski could be good answer. But while listening to it I had an impression that it was from earlier period.

Maybe it is Spohr - 8th concerto?

We have a winner!

Spohr it is, albeit from the first movement of concerto 4 in B minor, Op. 10.



Spohr was a major figure in his day, an influential and popular composer, conductor, soloist, and pedagogue, champion of Beethoven's works, inventor of the violin chin rest and score rehearsal letters, etc.

[mszczuj]

We have a winner!

Spohr it is, albeit from the first movement of concerto 4 in B minor, Op. 10.

I listened to this box this year - to some records twice - but I was sure that the only Concerto I could preserve in memory is the 8th which I had listened more times some years ago.

Spohr was a major figure in his day, an influential and popular composer, conductor, soloist, and pedagogue, champion of Beethoven's works, inventor of the violin chin rest and score rehearsal letters, etc.

I must say listening to his violin concertos was an unstopped pleasure. I was very fond of his symphonies either.

[mszczuj]

And this is my clip - again some violin in it:

http://www.4shared.com/audio/P6_0KBDT/nicetune.html?

[Amfortas]

And this is my clip - again some violin in it:

http://www.4shared.com/audio/P6_0KBDT/nicetune.html?

Sound French, or French-influenced

[mszczuj]

Yes.

[Grazioso]

Poulenc?

[mszczuj]

No.

[Grazioso]

Magnard Op. 13 1st movement

[mszczuj]

Magnard Op. 13 1st movement

Yes. Cadenza at the end of slow introducion and the 1st theme.

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I admire so this immoderate work that I couldn't resist temptation. I have seen there are some Magnard symphonies devotees on GMG Forum. I had spent  some time with his chamber music before I first time heard his orchetral works and still can't find in the latter those things which I love most in former. (And this uceasing melody of first theme is good eample of it.)

So this is my way to mark that I'm other Magnard fanboy who must spend some time for understanding that his symphonic music is just other than chamber.

Now your turn again.

[Grazioso]

Old school!

http://www.4shared.com/audio/VXUVsyR4/GMG_Mystery_Clip_8.html

[Hattoff]

Got to be Machaut? Is it his La Messe de Nostre Dame? or some such.

[Grazioso]

Got to be Machaut? Is it his La Messe de Nostre Dame? or some such.

Right you are.

[Hattoff]

I have the Naxos Messe de Nostre Dame which is sung more slowly but I love Machaut's lovely crunchy harmonies they remind me of Prokofiev!!............just me.

Back to the future:

http://www.4shared.com/audio/lHvvwYKz/goodstuff.html

[Amfortas]

Zemilinsky: Die Seejungfrau? (The Mermaid)

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I know this piece!  But I can't remember the composer. Because it sounds so maritime, is it Enescu's Vox Maris? If it is something else, I'll slap my forehead. [If I'm correct, I don't have time for an upload...]