Name that piece! The game

[Sef]

No one yet... Another hint: his country has a cat breed named after it, but not actually from there.

Bumped to the new page for convenience:

http://www.4shared.com/audio/vMYhNd4U/GMG_Mystery_Clip_2.html

Isle of Man?

[Grazioso]

Isle of Man?

No, but you're on the right track...

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Peter Maxwell Davies?

[Amfortas]

Alun Hoddinott?

[Grazioso]

No on got it, though Amfortas was closest, guessing Hoddinott. The clip is from the third movement of the third symphony by Welshman William Mathias. He also wrote an anthem for the wedding of Charles and Di (the great occasion I hinted at), and the cat breed is the Cymric, named after Cymru (the Welsh name for their nation) but actually a long-haired variant of the Manx cat from Man.

[Grazioso]

Here's one from a contemporary of Mozart:

http://www.4shared.com/audio/dv1PnyD4/GMG_Mystery_Clip_3.html

[listener]

I've not encountered the MATHIAS piece before, it sounds interesting enough to warrant a search (now that I know what to look for).

[Grazioso]

I've not encountered the MATHIAS piece before, it sounds interesting enough to warrant a search (now that I know what to look for).

He's probably best known for his church music, but his three symphonies are quite good, particularly the second, with its mysterious, shimmering, Martinu-like sonorities, and the ominous, kinetic third.

[Amfortas]

He's probably best known for his church music, but his three symphonies are quite good, particularly the second, with its mysterious, shimmering, Martinu-like sonorities, and the ominous, kinetic third.

This is a reminder for me to listen to the Mathias I have, Symphonies 1 & 2. Never heard the 3rd at all.

I'll pass on the Mozart-type one. 19th-20th C are much more my style

[Hattoff]

Salieri?

[Brian]

Here's one from a contemporary of Mozart:

http://www.4shared.com/audio/dv1PnyD4/GMG_Mystery_Clip_3.html

That very much sounds like something from an opera - I really thought somebody would begin singing at about the 30 second mark. Is it by J.M. Kraus by any chance? I don't know much about this time period. Sounds like great music, though.

[Grazioso]

That very much sounds like something from an opera - I really thought somebody would begin singing at about the 30 second mark. Is it by J.M. Kraus by any chance? I don't know much about this time period. Sounds like great music, though.

Well played, Sir! Yes, it's the overture to the incidental music for Olympie, by Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792), an almost exact contemporary of Mozart who was mostly active in Sweden, wrote some powerful Sturm und Drang symphonies, and won great praise from Haydn.



On to you...

[Grazioso]

Here are the answers from the last few pages:

David Del Tredici--Final Alice
Franz Schmidt--Concertante Variations on a Theme of Beethoven
de Falla--The Three-Cornered Hat
Honegger--Le Chant de Nigamon
Bantock--Sappho
Rangstrom--Dityramb
Børresen--Symphony No. 2
Mathias--Symphony No. 3
Kraus--Olympie overture

[Brian]

Sorry, I simply haven't thought of anything to upload yet. Estimated time of arrival: 7-8 hours from now.

[Hattoff]

Not much happening

Here's one to be going on with.

http://www.4shared.com/audio/KKXCf9dg/catchy.html

[Amfortas]

A sarabande, orchestrated by a 20th C composer?

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Yes, it sounds like a 20th century composer, imitating a style inbetween Bach and Mozart. It could also be the theme for a set of variations. Reger?

[Brian]

Sorry for that horrid delay, folks. You caught me at a time when I had absolutely no good ideas for mystery clips. I've got one now to go when this one's solved. It sounds like something based on Handel (?).

[listener]

an English period ballet?

[Grazioso]

Pomona by Lambert?