Name that piece! The game

[Amfortas]

Glinka?!?!?!

[The new erato]

Czar - das?

[listener]

Tubin  Suite of Estonian Dances?

[Hattoff]

It's a cryptic crossword style clue. Look for an anagram

[Sergeant Rock]

It's a cryptic crossword style clue. Look for an anagram

César Cui


Sarge

[Brian]

César Cui


Sarge

I was always terrible at cryptic clues.

[Sergeant Rock]

If I won, here's the next mystery clip. If I didn't win...well, listen anyway 

http://www.4shared.com/audio/OR4UrWA5/clipmystery_-_Kopie_2.html

I'm off to supper.

Sarge

[Opus106]

Hehe. I intended to parse it that way, but I was already stuck with the grid in today's paper and didn't bother about it thereafter. I don't remember hearing the Cui.

And incidentally, I was just reading a blog post about a cryptic crossword involving clues about classical music.

[Brian]

If I won, here's the next mystery clip. If I didn't win...well, listen anyway 

http://www.4shared.com/audio/OR4UrWA5/clipmystery_-_Kopie_2.html

I'm off to supper.

Sarge

Well, the librettist's name was easy enough to figure out, but I honestly have no idea who has set that poem, and Naxos Music Library's librettist database has got only five songs with his lyrics, none the right ones. A composer named B.E. Katona has set that poem to music but his version doesn't appear to be recorded...

I'm off to supper too. Only, I still need to cook it!

[Hattoff]

Sarge got it

Cui gets a lot of bad  press without anyone hearing a note of his music. He's not "great" but he is tuneful in a Borodiny way. The clip was from his Suite Concertante for violin & orchestra  Op 25.

Opus106, I was doing the crossword this morning when the anagram popped into my head and it seemed a shame to waste  it
And, to be fair, that blogged mistake you posted was in the Grauniad, what does one expect?

[Hattoff]

I like the clip. Leonard Bernstein?

[Brian]

I like the clip. Leonard Bernstein?

My first thought too, but then I got distracted by trawling through databases trying to find settings of the poem... if it is Bernstein that's very cool.

[Sergeant Rock]

I'm off to supper too. Only, I still need to cook it!

I did the cooking too. Prawns, bell peppers, onions, tomatoes, garlic in olive oil and spices, baked in the oven. Quick and easy, but very tasty.

I like the clip. Leonard Bernstein?

Not Bernstein but it is by a composer of the second half of the 20th century.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Well, the librettist's name was easy enough to figure out...

Good ear, Brian. I deliberately chose a section of the work where I thought the words most obscured.

Sarge

[Brian]

Good ear, Brian. I deliberately chose a section of the work where I thought the words most obscured.

Sarge

It did take a couple of plays. But it also didn't help. 

[Amfortas]

This isn't Andrew Lloyd Webber is it? There is that famous Requiem, I confess I never listened to it. My hearing won't let me distinguish the text, or even the language but I'm guessing it's in English

[Sergeant Rock]

This isn't Andrew Lloyd Webber is it? There is that famous Requiem, I confess I never listened to it. My hearing won't let me distinguish the text, or even the language but I'm guessing it's in English

It is in English but not Webber. The composer is American who wrote a series of works inspired by two famous books by an eccentric 19th century English author.

Sarge

[listener]

obvious clue, if I've got the right one
David del Tredici,   one of the (several?) Alice cycles ?

[Sergeant Rock]

obvious clue, if I've got the right one
David del Tredici,   one of the (several?) Alice cycles ?

We have a winner. The clip is from the eighth and final section of David Del Tredici's Final Alice, performed by Barbara Hendricks, Solti and the Chicago Symphony.




For anyone interested in hearing the final section complete:

http://www.4shared.com/audio/SOXx740d/08-del_Tredici_-_Final_Alice_-.html

The text, found in Through the Looking Glass, is Lewis Carrol's acrostic poem on the real Alice's name (Alice Pleasance Liddell):


A boat beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July —

Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear —

Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die:
Autumn frosts have slain July.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.

Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.

In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:

Ever drifting down the stream —
Lingering in the golden gleam —
Life, what is it but a dream?

[listener]

That did not sound like it was in English!

http://www.4shared.com/audio/D09gO5Jp/01_Track_1.html

This IS NOT ANOTHER DOHNANYI!    But it is an arrangement, sort of, and there is something hiding behind it.

I'll leave it  for a few hours to see if there anyone actually knows the piece.