Name that piece! The game

[mszczuj]

Holy crap; I don't even have a ripping program.......I'm an old fashioned collector. Anybody else able and willing?

Really confused by some of the guesses. This was so decidedly atonally influenced that my first thought was the 2nd Vienna school on my initial listen a couple of minutes ago.

You know - some guesses are looking for works which sounds completely diffrent than you should expect.

[Amfortas]

okay, I've waited a bit, someone may know this or guess it in a the same time.  If not, it's very pretty.

The new clip sounds to me like somebody took Dvorak and shoved him way into the 20th Century

[Grazioso]

Martinu?

[listener]

20th Century, yes¸
Martinu, no
hint: a composer of several genres (aren't they all?), I was quite surprised to see how 20th century he was chronologically, thought born shortly before.

[mszczuj]

I was quite surprised to see how 20th century he was chronologically

Janáček?

[listener]

Janáček?

no,    very satisfying as my last two turned out to be lightning rounds.
36 hrs. coming up, time for another vague comment:
The composer has written concertos, none for piano that I could see, but one is quite unique.

[Amfortas]

This isn't Marius Constant....who has concerto for barrel organ? 

No scratch that, he's got a piano concerto too, and he was born in 1925 so he's too young 

[Hattoff]

From your clues, William Grant Still?
I'm sorely araid that I know none of his music

[listener]

not Still,  and not Malcolm Arnold
a few hours short of 48:
The tune is quite singable, one of his most famous works is often excerpted for pops concerts (and cryptic clue: might be thought of as a politically correct version of something by Fields), another major work is not often performed but has had at least seven recordings (one of them severely cut).

[Brian]

a few hours short of 48:
The tune is quite singable, one of his most famous works is often excerpted for pops concerts (and cryptic clue: might be thought of as a politically correct version of something by Fields), another major work is not often performed but has had at least seven recordings (one of them severely cut).

Did somebody already guess Busoni?

[Opus106]

Did somebody already guess Busoni?

No, but there is a piano concerto in his name.

[Brian]

No, but there is a piano concerto in his name.

Oops: my brain processed "one that is quite unique" but not "none for piano" - after all his piano concerto is quite unique!

[Hattoff]

Reinhold Glière ?

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

The music is certainly Russian. I know Glière's Third very well, and this sounds like him...

[listener]

Reinhold Glière ?

YES !!!     on to Hattoff for the next one,,,

I thought the 'singable' might be a lead to his singular Concerto for Coloratura Soprano and Orch.
The cryptic referencce was to W.C. Fields (The Red) Poppy.    And his 3rd Symphony is a cult favourite even though few conductors or orchestras want to work on that large a score.
The clip is from the 2nd movement of his Cello Concerto.

[Hattoff]

That was bloody, bleedin' difficult
Thanks for the clues, but got to Gliere via the Double Bass!.... I can't explain ......and only then realised he fitted with the pops clue.
I enjoyed that Very well done

I shall keep that clip, I listened to it so many times I got to like it. I like Gliere anyway.

Here's the next one.
http://www.4shared.com/audio/jEKiDyP7/tiddlybom.html

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Okay, I don't know the piece, but I am thinking of Mosolov, The Foundry.

[Hattoff]

I know what you mean Johan, but it's not him

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I know what you mean Johan, but it's not him

I could always try! 

[Grazioso]

Here's the next one.
http://www.4shared.com/audio/jEKiDyP7/tiddlybom.html

Tell the workmen to stop hammering while the recording is in session 

Schnittke?