Name that piece! The game

[Opus106]

Since I may not be visiting GMG for the next 18 or 19 hours, I'll post the link to my clip now, so that you can continue once Karl's has been figured out.

http://www.mediafire.com/?y138sbpk3vuve1r

And because I won't be visiting the site for that long, I won't be here to provide clues (sorry ) and more importantly, to confirm or refute answers. So in the interest of the game continuing in my absence, I present to you the second link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?upe4kl0k03a3y9m

It links to a password-protected Zip file which contains a text file with the answer. The password is the surname of the composer (lowercase) -- it's as simple as that. (But I do hope that WinZip/WinRar will handle it properly for those on Windows, as I haven't confirmed if they do.) In the event of someone finding the answer out, he or she may choose to perform the role of the clue/answer-giver if others so wish.

[DavidW]

Navneeth that is a clever way to setup the answer!!

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Navneeth that is a clever way to setup the answer!!

Indeed!!

[karlhenning]

Not Schmitt. A well-travelled Frenchman. Though a Med school dropout.

[Scarpia]

Not Schmitt. A well-travelled Frenchman. Though a Med school dropout.

Medical School Dropout, that matches Berlioz.  I thought he was suggested and tossed aside already.

[karlhenning]

Davey's post was a curiosity. Didn't strike me as offering Berlioz as a guess, but as his deciding (aloud) not to.

If you are guessing Berlioz, what is the piece (per thread title)? < Smiley >

[karlhenning]

Davey, if you meant that for a guess, I apologize for being obtuse ...

[DavidW]

Davey, if you meant that for a guess, I apologize for being obtuse ...

No it wasn't, you read me right.

[karlhenning]

OTOH, it was a break for me — I did not deny that it was Berlioz, and the impression was somehow given off that he'd been discounted! : )

What threw Davey was, it's not a piece that Munch recorded with the BSO ...

[DavidW]

That means that I have not heard it then, because I only knew what is in the Munch set!   Well that gets me off the hook...

[Scarpia]

OTOH, it was a break for me — I did not deny that it was Berlioz, and the impression was somehow given off that he'd been discounted! : )

What threw Davey was, it's not a piece that Munch recorded with the BSO ...

No Munch recording means no Damnation of Faust, Romeo et al, Requiem.  Te Deum?

[mc ukrneal]

Davey's post was a curiosity. Didn't strike me as offering Berlioz as a guess, but as his deciding (aloud) not to.

If you are guessing Berlioz, what is the piece (per thread title)? < Smiley >

Is this Tristia? I think that has a wordless chorus in it. But I've never heard it myself.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Cléopâtre? Sardanapale?

[karlhenning]

Is this Tristia? I think that has a wordless chorus in it. But I've never heard it myself.

One of the numbers of Tristia, though there is a text (I just snipped a bit with vocalise): La mort d'Ophélie.

[karlhenning]

. . . Te Deum?

Oh, not nearly monumental enough! : )

So now: Nav's clip reigneth . . . .

[Opus106]

Wow, I've heard this tune before!

http://www.youtube.com/v/g04aCp3ej-I

[DavidW]

What program do you have to use to be able to put in a password?  Windows doesn't prompt it simply returns an error.

[DavidW]

Never mind I figured out what to do... install 7-zip.  Windows 7 simply doesn't handle password protected zip files.

[Opus106]

What program do you have to use to be able to put in a password?

I assumed that any archiving program (WinZip, for example) would be able to do that. I'm really sorry if none of you were prompted for a password or all were shown an error message. Now that I'm back, you can begin guessing in the usual way.

David, if you have access to Ubuntu via VM, you can try opening in that, because I used the default archiving utility that comes with the OS.

[karlhenning]

Nav, I couldn't download your clip (probably not your look-out ; )