Quiz: Mystery scores

[Maciek]

They get even better known - MM13: Onutė Narbutaitė

No way, man! Narbutaitė is definitely the most famous Lithuanian composer not counting Kutavicius. She has a cult following even in Poland (I dare say she is more popular here than Kutavicius himself!). People who've never heard of Ciurlionis are mad about Narbutaite! And I wouldn't call a composer who's been recorded by the Arditti Quartet obscure. That makes you at least a bit known by definition. Or doesn't it? 0:)

(And yes, your answer is correct. )

[lukeottevanger]

Well, I said she was better known, didn't I?

But you are right, and I was wrong. Of course your well-known composers (e.g. Bartulis) are as famous as the ones of mine (e.g. Bartok) about which I have been so 'taunting'   0:)  0:)

Larry, I assume your 'finally, one I could have gotten' is meant ironically! - the Britten (and the Bartok) have been up for about three weeks, their pride rather dented when no one recognised them straight away! 

But there's still at least one which I think is equally well-known, and actually, in the present company, I would suggest that the following are all ones which are probably known by most here:

77, 108, 109, 115, 116, 138, 154,

and the following, though less known as pieces, are by very well-known names (I use the Bartok rather than the Bartulis definition of well-known  )

55, 57, 58, 85, 102, 104, 105, 120, 124, 128, 132, 140, 142, 150, 159, 160

and of course, I could be wrong in this classification - it's quite likely, for instance that 132 and 142 belong in the 'pieces most of us have heard' group

(hyperlinks and clues are on page 61)

And then there is number 117. I have given the answer to this one (not clues, the answer itself, given without subterfuge) more than once already. The fact that it hasn't been identified beats me completely.

[Maciek]

Could it possibly be The Whale then? (I'm not even looking at the score.)

[lukeottevanger]

LOL!

Thank goodness for that!

The (imaginary) bonus point was - who took 'loudhailer 6' part on this page for the work's only recording?

[Larry Rinkel]

Sorry, Luke - the thread has gotten so involved, with so many examples and explanations, that I'm getting lost following what's been answered, what's had a clue I can use, and what I'm totally clueless about. Besides, I was away from home most of last week and took a vacation from the computer.

[lukeottevanger]

Sorry, Luke - the thread has gotten so involved, with so many examples and explanations, that I'm getting lost following what's been answered, what's had a clue I can use, and what I'm totally clueless about. Besides, I was away from home most of last week and took a vacation from the computer.

That's OK, Larry - we've had more than 300 scores now, it's bound to get complicated! I've tried to keep the hyperlinked list up to date - the latest one, which I updated last night, is on page 61, below the post of clues to mine. Click on the numbers to be taken to the score in question

Let me repeat - you know lots of these, I'm sure, but I particularly associate no 115 with you, in that I know you know this piece very well indeed.

[Larry Rinkel]

That's OK, Larry - we've had more than 300 scores now, it's bound to get complicated! I've tried to keep the hyperlinked list up to date - the latest one, which I updated last night, is on page 61, below the post of clues to mine. Click on the numbers to be taken to the score in question

Let me repeat - you know lots of these, I'm sure, but I particularly associate no 115 with you, in that I know you know this piece very well indeed.

115 looks like one of the Mallarmé improvisations from Boulez's Pli selon pli - though which one I can't say for certain.

[lukeottevanger]

Good enough - it's no 2 

[Larry Rinkel]

Good enough - it's no 2 

Actually I was fairly sure it wasn't 1.

[greg]

i might post some new ones up, though i might wait until the weekend. First I'd have to figure out how to extract single pages from pdf files and then save them as jpgs.

[lukeottevanger]

Just use screen capture

[greg]

DUH! 

i thought of that before but somehow forgot it, that's not good. Thanks for the reminder, though.

[Joe_Campbell]

Is 112 Finnissey?

[lukeottevanger]

Yes it is - nice work! Remember, this is based around a famous bit of Berlioz - as my previous clue said, Berlioz's favourite amongst his works, and also mine. 'Based around' is too loose, though - the original is always there, close to the surface, but often smothered in other layers. In fact this smothering is reflected in the title. Once you know which Berlioz piece it is - should be quite evident - a search of Finnissy's works could lead you to the title of this piece, one of my favourite works of his to play.

[Larry Rinkel]

Yes it is - nice work! Remember, this is based around a famous bit of Berlioz - as my previous clue said, Berlioz's favourite amongst his works, and also mine. 'Based around' is too loose, though - the original is always there, close to the surface, but often smothered in other layers. In fact this smothering is reflected in the title. Once you know which Berlioz piece it is - should be quite evident - a search of Finnissy's works could lead you to the title of this piece, one of my favourite works of his to play.

Romeo and Juliet are Drowning, based on the Scène d'Amour.

[lukeottevanger]

Exactly.   

That's only the clue I gave on page 61, btw, and it was obviously sufficient, so I recommend looking back over them for the remainder - there are plenty which I've been pretty generous with!

[lukeottevanger]

I sense that we may be starting to move on these last ones now, but maybe having the clues a way away is cumbersome, so here they are again. I haven't added any extra clues, however; bits in bold were new last time this list was posted, not this time. However, stuff in italics is new, as the composers are identified. When a piece is found, I will delete it from this post, which will hopefully end up entirely empty!...

44    - we've established that this is a piece of French organ music, by a specialist organ composer. I'll add that he is one of those much-lamented 'died-too-soon' composers, killed in action in WWII. As a give-away clue I'll also add that his youngest sister went on to become a famous organist in her own right. This composer's output is small, and this is one of his larger works. As you can see, the melodic writing shows the influence of Eastern musics, though this is not one of his pieces (there are some) with an 'Eastern' title. I don't think I can give more clues than this. Seems I have to! - first name is Jehan.

59 and  60 - These two pieces are by different composers, but both bear an extremely strong relationship to the style of a composer of the preceding generation {I've said elsewhere - this is Scriabin]. Usually we would be right to see this as plagiarism, but in these cases there is particularly good reason for the likeness. Neither composer ever developed far beyond this phase of Scriabinesque music, because, for different reasons, both stopped composing before their styles became fully personal. Each had very strong, childhood, formative links to Scriabin, hence the understandable resemblance. I'll now also add that one of these composer never got the chance to develop beyond childhood; the other became world famous, but not as a composer. Guido has identified one of these as Scriabin's son Julian, a child prodigy who died very young...but which? And who's the other one....?
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72 - this composer shared exactly the fate of the composer of my 51, though a few months later. He was 25. For a while he wrote under a pseudonym (Karel Vranek). He wrote a string duo in quarter tones. This movement is a set of variations on a folksong, Ta Knezdubska vez; it comes from what is probably his finest work, a piece which has been recorded several times. My no 51, mentioned earlier in this clue, was Pavel Haas, victim of Terezin and Auschwitz. Therefore, you may assume, so was this composer, the youngest of the four most famous composer-victims of the former camp

77 - We've had one piece from this composer on this thread. He's British, as has been established. He's not Elgar, as has been established. But he died the same year as Elgar, which pretty much narrows him down to one of the other two famous British composer who died that year er, that's Holst and Delius. I think it obvious which one he is. This piece contains a part for wordless chorus , though not on this page, with its intricate rhythms.

87 - British composer in his fifties who I have seen/met twice (the second time in person, the first time when my youth orchestra performed on of his pieces) - I don't suppose this is really a clue, mind you!. A viola concerto full of and based around nostalgic quotations (Monteverdi to Wagner and points between) Ideas of love, distance, memory, wind and sea lie behind the piece. The piece falls into sections, each based around a particular quoted piece; each section is linked by a recurrent quotation. Towards the bottom of this page you can see both quite clearly. One, the recurrent one, is the Beethoven 'Lebewohl' horn call. This composer also wrote a beautiful fantasy for viola and strings based on material from Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

88 -12 tone composition for full orchestra. Not a symphony, though its composer wrote a few. Post-Schoenbergian dodecaphonist, Spanish by birth but adopted as English. Wrote a (tonal) ballet on a Spanish theme familiar to Strauss, Falla etc; wrote the first electronic score for the British Stage (RSC King Lear, 1955) Larry's got the composer - Roberto Gerhard

100 - written by a great musical lexocographer and wit, whose advert for 'Castoria' is one of the great musical delights I know of. One of those composers whose life is filled with quotable incident. Conducted the premieres of Varese's Ionisation and Ives' Three Places. Again, Larry has found the composer, Nicolas Slonimsky

102 -  British composer of  9 symphonies. This one was inspired by a vision of multicultural harmony following race riots in the 50s (IIRC) This composer, who died recently, lived near me, though I only saw him once from a distance. My wife, who grew up round here, once danced with him after her youth orchestra had performed on of his works. He was a populist composer with a great melodic gift and a famous sense of humour, who in addition to his serious 'classical' repertoire also wrote several very well-known film scores. Wrote a harmonica concerto for Larry Adler, and a clarinet one for Benny Goodman. One of his most famous concertante works has solo parts for vacuum cleaners... Larry again - the composer is Malcolm Arnold

104 - a one-time disciple of Satie, though they fell out over a schoolboy prank. As I said, a major composer, and one of his finest but comparatively little-known works. Was a member probably the most famous - of the same group of composers as no 62

116 - Has no one spotted the Ligeti-like feature of the orchestration here? They are significant in a very specific way to the subject of this piece (a well-known one act opera) and are used here, at the very beginning, to set the scene.

124 - I said earlier that this is an early piece by a major composer not commonly associated with solo piano, but rather with dazzling orchestration and with opera. Another little-known work of his has already featured on this thread

127 - A major name in minimalism, famous as an improvising performer as much as as a composer. These little fragments are the sources to be drawn on for keyboard improvisation and for personal practise.

128 - Not Part, as has been guessed, but a much more central figure. This half-deadly-serious, half-joking exercise in strict counterpoint (until this point it is a double canon throughout) is a fairly early work, but breathes the autumnal melancholy with which this composer's late works are habitually associated

130 - A famous example of Futurism. I would think a little searching would reveal this one.

133 - I'm disappointed. I've just seen that I left this composer's name on the score (albeit hard to read) and still it wasn't got! I'll leave it like that and see who's paying attention!

134 - Notice the various instrumental groupings here, a la Gruppen. It isn't Stockhausen though, or anyone with such formal methods. It is, however, a composer best known for his exploration of this sort of thing.

135 - A British experimental composer already found on this thread. A Marxist who died in suspicious circumstances. He learnt to play the guitar expressly so as to be able to take part in the British premiere of Le marteau sans maitre. Some have claimed that this piece was the first music ever to have the term 'minimalist' applied to it publicly (by Michael Nyman), though it seems that its importance lies elsewhere.

139 - An Italian Jewish composer, persecuted by Mussolini's regime and leaving for the US in 1939

140 - I thought the style of this composer was easy to get - he is pretty inimitable both in look and in language. I'll leave it at that hint for now.

141 - Quite a hard one. Another innovator - in this case with an experimental system of notation you can see here, in which black notes are shown by crossed note heads

142 - A great Russian composer-pianist, often paired with Rachmaninov. Larry has the composer - Medtner

144 - To elucidate my earlier clue - well-known as a jazz man as well as a classical composer, the author of this piece played on Miles Davis' Porgy and Bess. This is possibly his best known classical work, based on paintings by an artist who himself was a fine musician, and whose wonderful paintings are haunted by music.

145 - Another British experimental composer, a more whimsical one than no 135, this composer has written (at least) 156 piano sonatas (the latest I have seen is called 'The Well Tempered Cyclist). The sonatas are mostly very short; in contrast, his 8th Piano Sonatina lasts 90 minutes and [includes a five movement Symphony in memory of Alkan, one of his main influences. He has also written a song cycle which includes a setting of his friends' addresses.

147 - One of the more important and more thoughtful figures of contemporary British music. Among other things, he is well known for his settings of Christian texts as here, though he himself is possibly closer to Buddhism.

148 - A collaboration between a classical composer (Hungarian) and a jazz musician (saxophonist, British, famous jazz singer wife)

150 - At first glance, this looks like one thing, but closer inspection reveals that it is very much something else. The handwriting, actually, might easily give the composer away. I chose this piece because it doesn't look like what you'd expect of this composer - always good to challenge perceptions!

152 - If I was actually a proper composer, this composer would be the one preceding me in the dictionary! One of his teachers was the composer of no 123

156 - My clue was - has been recorded on a particular label by the same pianist who recorded 152 on the same label. Also the label on which 126 is recorded. This composer specialised in intimate, exquisite miniatures, and the set from which this one is drawn is his masterpiece in the form. I can't imagine anything finer of its type

159 - The percussion part is the clue here - it looks like no other composer.

164a and 164b - I put this up today, so I shouldn't really give any more clues. However - the composer is Canadian.

[lukeottevanger]

And the usual, up to date


Set by Sean:
1 - Bach - D minor Cello Suite - (Larry)
2 - Bach - E flat Cello Suite - (Larry)
3 - Bach - C minor Cello Suite - (Larry)
4 - Messiaen - Excerpt from Vingt Regards - (Larry)
5 - Messiaen - Excerpt from Vingt Regards - (Larry)
6 - Messiaen - Excerpt from Vingt Regards - (Larry)
7 - Messiaen - Excerpt from Vingt Regards - (Larry)

Set by Larry:
1 - Bach - B minor Mass 'Quoniam' - (Novitiate)
2 - Nielsen - Sixth Symphony - (Mark)
3 - Beethoven - Quartet op 95 - (CS)
4 - Schumann - Carnaval 'Chopin' - (Mark)
5 - Elgar - Cello Concerto - (Novitiate)
6 - Falla - Harpsichord Concerto - (Mark)
7 - Rzewski - The People United... - (Luke)
8 - Brahms - G major Sextet - (Luke)
9 - Berg - Wozzeck Act II interlude - (Luke)
10 - Mahler - Ninth Symphony - (Maciek)
11 - Boulez - Le Marteau sans Maitre - (Luke)
12 - Petterssen - 7th Symphony - (M Forever)
13 - Carter - SQ 1 - (Luke)
14 - Shostakovich - Symphony 15 - (Luke)
15 - Monteverdi - Orfeo - (Novitiate)
16 - Elgar - String Quartet - (Luke)
17 - Gorecki - Symphony 3 - (Luke)
18 - Bizet - Carmen - (Luke)
19 - Ligeti - Etude 'L'escalier....' - (Luke)
20 - Weber - Sonata 2 - (Luke, but I refused to say because I Googled it; Guido was first to identify it)
21 - Stockhausen - Klavierstucke IX - (Luke)
22 - Handel - Orlando - (Luke)
23 - aka 1a - Verdi - Requiem - (Luke)
24 - aka 2a - Wagner - Götterdämmerung - (Mark)
25 - aka 3a - Holst - Jupiter - (Mark)
26 - aka 4a - Haydn - F minor Variations - (Luke)
27 - aka 5a Liszt - Petrarch Sonnet - (Mark)
28 - aka 6a Schoenberg - Pierrot - (Mark)
29 - aka 6 - six samples plus 'what is the link'
    Bach - Double Violin Concerto (Luke)
    Schumann - Davidsbundlertanze - (Luke)
    Mendelssohn - Scottish Symphony - (Luke)
    Tchakovsky - Serenade for Strings - (Luke)
    Webern - Symphony - (Luke)
    Ravel - Tzigane - (Luke)
    Link = all used by Balanchine - (Luke)
30 aka 21 - Wolf - String Quartet - (Luke)
31 aka 22 - Delius - Irmelin Prelude - (Luke)
32 aka 23 - Wolf - Der Corregidor - (Luke)
33 aka 24  - Crawford Seeger - String Quartet - (Luke)
34 aka 25 - Lutoslawski - Third Symphony - (Luke)
35 aka 26 - Goldmark - Rustic Wedding Symphony - (Luke)
36 aka 27 - Orff - Antigone - (Luke)
37 aka 'Last'! - Bolcom - Songs of Experience - (Luke)
38 aka 41 - Shapero - Symphony for Classical Orchestra - (Guido)
39 aka 42 - Machaut - Mass (Credo) - (Luke)
40 aka 43 - Rouse - Gorgon - (Luke)
41 aka 44 - Beethoven - Merkenstein (duet op 100) - (Luke)
42 aka 45 - Markevitch - L'Envol d'Icare - (Luke)
43 aka 46 - Markevitch - Icare - (Luke)
44 aka 47 - Kupferman - Symphony 3 - (Luke)
45 aka 48 - WF Bach - Polonaise in C minor (Luke)
46 aka 49 - Grofe - Grand Canyon Suite - (Mark)
47 aka 50 - Carter - Concerto for Orchestra - (Luke)
48 aka 51 - Barraque - Sequence - (Luke)
49 aka 52 - Glass - Akhenaten - (Luke)

Set by Luke:
1 - Martinu - Symphony 6 - (Larry)
2 - Tavener - In Alium - (Larry)
3 - Feldman - Why Patterns (Mark)
4 - Khachaturian - Piano Concerto - (Mark)
5 - Ferneyhough - Sieben Sterne - (Larry)
6 - Schoenberg - Jakobsleiter - (Larry)
7 - Part - If Bach had been a beekeeper - (Karl)
8 - Scelsi - Anahit - (Maciek)
9 - Kurtag - Grabstein fur Stephan - (Edward)
10 - Havergal Brian - Gothic Symphony - (Larry 1st by exclamation; Karl 1st by use of English language)
11 - Cage - Concerto for Prepared Piano - (Maciek)
12 - Xenakis - Oresteia - (Greg)
13 - Adams - Harmonielehre - (Maciek)
14 - Ives - The Housatonic at Stockbridge - (Larry)
15 - Nancarrow - Player piano study (37) - (Mark)
16 - Tippett - 3rd Symphony - (Mark)
17 - Villa-Lobos - Bachainas Brasileras 2 (the train one...) - (Larry)
18 - Boulez - Le soleil des eaux (Maciek)
19 - Liszt - Dante Symphony - (Larry)
20 - Ligeti - Violin Concerto (Larry)
21 - Nyman - Drowning by NUmbers - (Maciek)
22 - Vaughan Williams - Symphony 9 - (Larry)
23 - Dvorak - Violin Concerto - (Guido)
24 - Finnissy - Red Earth - (Maciek)
25 - Varese - Nocturnal - (Larry)
26 - Dvorak - String Quartet op 9 - (Larry)
27 - Martin - Mass for double choir - (Maciek)
28 - Respighi - Feste Romane - (Maciek)
29 - Balakirev - 1st Symphony - (Maciek)
30 - Janacek - Suite for Strings - (Edward)
31 - Schnittke - String Trio - (Guido)
32 - Reger - Mozart Variations - (Larry)
33 - Bernstein - Chichester Psalms - (Larry)
34 - Maxwell Davies - Ressurection - (Maciek)
35 - Britten - Nocturnal - (Manuel)
36 - Boulez - Rituel - (Larry)
37 - Stockhausen - Formulas for Licht - (Edward)
38 - Enescu - Cînt T?cut - (Maciek)
39 - Cardew - Treatise - (Maciek)
40 - Kancheli - Symphony 5 - (Edward)
41 - Martinu - Fantasie for Theremin (etc) - (Edward)
42 - Partch - Castor and Pollux - (Maciek)
43 - Kurtag - from Jatekok - (Karl)
44 - Jehan Alain - ? - (Larry)
45 - Rzewski - Coming Together - (Edward)
46 - Schnittke - Violin Sonata 2 - (Edward)
47 - Powell - Serebryaniy vek - (Maciek)
48 - Rihm - Jagden und Formen - (Edward)
49 - Takahashi - Sa - (Maciek)
50 - Komitas [Vardapet] - Dances - (Maciek)
51 - [Pavel] Haas - Suite for Oboe and Piano - (Maciek)
52 - Burgess - Concertino - (Maciek)
53 - Birtwistle - Monody for Corpus Christi - (Symphonien)
54 - Takemitsu - From Me Flows What You Call Time - (Steve)
55 - Suk - A Summer's Tale - (Larry)
56 - Bryars - Cello Concerto - (Guido)
57 - Liadov - 8 Russian Folksongs - (Larry)
58 - Schoenberg - op 35/5 - (Larry)
59 - ?
60 - ?
61 - Respighi - Violin Sonata - (Maciek)
62 - Milhaud - Piano Sonata - (Guido)
63 - Godowsky - Study after Chopin no 45 - (Maciek)
64 - Finnissy - Song 9 - (matticus)
65 - Debussy - Pièce pour le Vêtement du blessé - (Greg)
66 - R Strauss - The Castle by the Sea - (Larry)
67 - Satie - Messe des Pauvres - (Maciek)
68 - Korngold - Piano Trio - (Mark)
69 - Alkan - Concerto for Solo Piano first movement (op 39/8) - (Larry)
70 - Janacek - Mladi - (Mark)
71 - Souster - Sonata - (Guido)
72 - ?
73 - Gann - Petty Larceny - (matticus)
74 - Hauer - Zwolftonspiel - (matticus)
75 - Ornstein - Piano Quintet - (Guido)
76 - Messiaen - Et Expecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum - (Steve)
77 - Casella - A la Maniere de Richard Strauss - (Maciek)
77 - Delius - ? - (Larry) (sorry about this mistake in numbering - two no 77s!  )
78 - Roslavetz - Piano Sonata 1 - (Guido)
79 - Baird - Erotyki - (Maciek)
80 - Barrett - Coigitum - matticus
81 - MacDowell - Sonata Eroica (no 2) - (Steve)
82 - ?
83 - Schnittke - Psalms of Repentance - (Greg)
84 - Benjamin - At First LIght - (Greg)
85 - Smetana - Macbeth and the Witches - (Larry)
86 - Paderewski - Chants du voyageur - (Maciek)
87 - ?
88 - Gerhard - ? - (Larry)
89 - Bartok - Bluebeard's Castle - (Mark)
90 - Lutoslawski - Paroles Tissees - (Maciek)
91 - Dillon - East 11th St NY 10003 - (matticus)
92 - Mahler/Cooke - 10th Symphony - (Mark)
93 - Bridge - Piano Sonata - (Guido)
94 - Bolcom - New Etudes - (Mark)
95 - Busoni - Second Sonatina - (Steve)
96 - Xenakis - Herma - (matticus)
97 - Sibelius - Luonnotar - (Mark)
98 - Messaien - Des canyons aux etoiles - (Guido)
99 - Rodney Bennett - Noctuary - (Steve)
100 - Slonimsky - ? - (Larry)
101 - Shostakovich - 4th Symphony - (Karl)
102 - Arnold - ? - (Larry)
103 - Panufnik - Autumn Music - (Maciek)
104 - ?
105 - Bartok - Rhapsody - (Larry)
106 - Ferneyhough - Transit - (matticus)
107 - Crumb - Five Pieces for Piano - (matticus)
108 - Britten - Nocturne - (Larry)
109 - Smetana - From Bohemia's Woods and Fields (Ma Vlast) - (Larry)
110 - Skempton - senza licenza - (Guido)
111 - Havergal Brian - Fantastic Variations on an Old Rhyme - (Mark)
112 - Finnissy - Romeo and Juliet are Drowning - (Larry)
113 - Britten - War Requiem - (Mark)
114 - Holloway - Romanza - (Guido)
115 - Boulez - Improvisation 2 from Pli seon pli - (Larry)
116 - ?
117 - Tavener - The Whale - (Maciek)
119 - Vaughan Williams - Serenade to Music - (Mark)
120 - Schoenberg - Bach arrangement: Komm Gott Schoepfer - (Larry)
121 - Maxwell Davies - The Lighthouse - (Mark)
122 - Vaughan Williams - A Sea Symphony - (Mark)
123 - Hindemith - Ludus Tonalis - (Guido)
124 - ?
125 - Walton - Violin Concerto - (Guido)
126 - ?
127 - ?
128 - ?
129 - Panufnik - Universal Prayer - (Maciek)
130 - ?
131 - Brahms - Nänie - (Mark)
132 - ?
133 - ?
134 - ?
135 - ?
136 - Maxwell Davies - Eight Songs for a Mad King - (Mark)
137 - La Monte Young - various Compositions - (Karl)
138 - ?
139 - ?
140 - ?
141 - ?
142 - Medtner - ? - (Larry)
143 - Glass - Music in Fifths - (Karl)
144 - ?
145 - ?
146 - Ligeti - Concert Românesc - (Symphonien)
147 - ?
148 - ?
149 - Ellington - Heaven (from The Sacred Concerts) - (Symphonien)
150 - ?
151 - Maurice Emmanuel - Sonatina Pastorale - (Larry)
152 - ?
153 - Adams - Harmonium - (Guido)
154 - ?
155 - Babbitt - Philomel - (Greg)
156 - ?
157 - William Grant Still - Afro-American Symphony - (Guido)
158 - Clara Schumann - op 23/3 - (Larry)
159 - ?
160 - Henze - Royal Winter Music - (Steve)
161 - Webern - Kinderstuck - (Greg arr. Karl)
162 - Harrison - Peace Piece - (Guido)
163 - Ades - Arcadiana - (Guido)
164a and 164b (same piece_ - ?

Set by Greg:
1 - Corigliano - Symphony 1 - (revealed by Greg)
2 - Takemitsu - Distance - (Maciek)
3 - Reich - Piano Phase - (Larry)
4 - Ligeti - Viola Sonata - (Edward)
5 - Adams - Phrygian Gates - (Guido)
6 - Kagel - String Sextet - (revealed by Greg)
7 - Prokofiev - PC 1 - (Luke)
8 - Xenakis - Jonchaies - (revealed by Greg)
9 - Debussy - La Mer - (Larry)
10 - Norgard - Symphony 6 -(revealed by Greg)
11 - Takemitsu - Corona - (Luke)
12 - Takemitsu - November Steps - (Luke)
13 - Webern - Canons op 16 - (Karl)
14 - Stravinsky - Soldier's Tale - (Karl)
15 - Lachenmann - Mouvement (- vor der Erstarrung) - (Luke)
16 - Ferneyhough - Lemma-Icon-Epigram - (Larry)
17 - Grisey - Les Espaces Acoustiques (Partiels) - (Luke)
18 - Shostakovich - Violin Concerto 1 - (Luke)
19 - Xenakis - Terretektorh - (Maciek)
20 - Xenakis - ATA - (Maciek)
21 - Reich - Electric Counterpoint - (Luke)
22 - Crumb - Star Child - (Luke)
23 - Faure - Requiem - (Luke)
24 - Shostakovich - Quartet no 13 - (Luke)
25 - Me (Luke) - Paz Songs - (Luke) (don't be daft, Greg!)
26 - Berg - Violin Concerto - (Luke)
27 - Berg - Wozzeck - (Luke)
28 - ?
29 - Delius - Songs of Sunset - (Luke)
30 - ?
Set by Guido:
1 - presumably Sorabji - ? Guido doesn't know which - (Luke)
2 - Schumann - E flat Variations - (Luke)
3 - Ives - first of 114 Songs - (Luke)
4 - Stravinsky - for the five fingers - (Luke)
5 - Barber - Piano Sonata - (Larry)
6 - Previn - Cello Sonata - (Maciek)
7 - Finzi - Cello Concerto - (Luke)
8 - Piazzolla - Libertango - (Maciek)
9 - Bernstein Clarinet Sonata - (Mark)
10 - Poulenc - Cello Sonata - (Larry)
11 - Stravinsky - Requiem Canticles - (Mark)
12 - Kodaly - Solo Cello Sonata- (Larry)
13 'buggered up'
14 - Carter - Cello Concerto - (Luke)
15 - Holst - Invocation - (Luke)
16 - Dietrich - 1st mvt of FAE Sonata - (Luke)
17 - Bloch - Suite for Viola arr. Cello - (Luke)
Couldn't find no. 18...
19 - Ives - Fourth Symphony - (Larry)
20 - really not worth putting up, Guido! This is a little fragment from a larger set by me, this bit in particular called 'A cage went in search of a bird' (from Kafka)

Set by Manuel:
1 - Prokofiev - PC 2 - (Maciek)
2 - Rzewski - Which Side Are You On - (Luke)
3 - de Beriot - Violin Concerto 9 - (Luke)
4 - Wieniawski - Four Etudes (no 2) for Two Violins - (Luke)

Set by Maciek:
1 - Szymanski - Piano Concerto - (Luke)
2- Kilar - Piano Concerto (Luke)
3 - Lutoslawski - Paganini Variations - (Mark)
4 - Szymanowski - 4th Symphony - (Luke)
5 - Serocki - Fort e piano - (Luke)
6 - Meyer - SQ 3 - (Luke)
7 - Zarebski - Piano Quintet - (Luke)
8 - Penderecki - String Quartet 1 - (Greg)
9 - Chopin - Cello Sonata - (Luke)
10 - Gorecki - Genesis I - (Luke)
11 - Vidmantas Bartulis - I Like F.Schubert. Quintetto C Maj op.163 Adagio - (Luke)
12 - Bronius Kutavičius - Last Pagan Rites - (Luke)
13 - Onutė Narbutaitė - Autumn Ritornello. Hommage à Fryderyk - (Luke)
14 - Bacevi?ius - Vision - (Luke)
15 - Loreta Narvilaitė - Butterfly - (Luke)
16 - Moniuszko - Rybka - (Luke)
17 - Kilar - Angelus - (Luke)
18 - Baird - Voices From Afar - (Luke)
19 - Szymanowski - 6 Kurpain Songs - (Luke)
20 - Penderecki - Song of the Cherubim - (Luke)
21 - Cage - Bacchanale - (Luke)
22 - Ives - Song Without (Good) Words - (Luke)
23 - Cowell - Banshee - (Luke)
24 - Crumb - Processional - (Greg)
25 - Bartok - Bagatelle no 3 - (Luke)
26 - Zarebski - Les Roses et Les Epines - (Luke)

Set by Steve:
1 - Stamp - String Quartet No. 556(b) for Strings In A Minor (Motoring Accident) - (Maciek)
2 - Bartok - String Quartet 4 - (Larry)
3 - Falla - Homenaje a Debussy - (Luke)
4 - Webern - op 10 Pieces - (Luke)
5 - Stravinsky - Rite of Spring - (Karl)
6 - Coltrane - Giant Steps - (Luke)
7 - Albeniz - Suite Espanola (Sevilla) - (Luke)
8 - ?
9 - Scarlatti - Sonata S3/K513 - (Luke)
10 - Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge - (Luke)
11 - Cordier - Belle, Bonne, Sage - (Luke)
12 - Stravinsky - Octet - (Larry)
13 - Brouwer - La Espiral eterna - (Luke)
14 - Carter - Changes - (Luke)
15 - Smith Brindle - El polifemo de oro - (Guido)
16 - Takemitsu - Folios - (Luke)
17 - Tippett - The Blue Guitar - (Luke)
18 - Ponce - Sonata Meridional - (Luke)
19 - Liszt - Nuages Gris - (Larry)
20 - Bach - Fugue  BWV 997 - (matticus)
21 - Bach - Cantata BWV 21 - (Larry)

[Larry Rinkel]

Some quick guesses: 88 Gerhard, 100 Slominsky or Slonimsky, 102 Malcolm Arnold, 108 Britten's Illuminations, 133 name unintelligible, 142 Medtner. As for the Schoenberg male choir thing, it must be from op. 35, but lacking a score or recording I haven't been able to pin it down further. More later.

[lukeottevanger]

Some quick guesses: 88 Gerhard, 100 Slominsky or Slonimsky, 102 Malcolm Arnold, 108 Britten's Illuminations, 133 name unintelligible, 142 Medtner. As for the Schoenberg male choir thing, it must be from op. 35, but lacking a score or recording I haven't been able to pin it down further. More later.

Gerhard = correct

Slonimsky = correct (and I'll post a bit of Castoria as a special treat when the exact answer is found)

Arnold = correct

Britten = correct, but not Les Illuminations, which is accomp by strings only

Medtner = correct

The Schoenberg is from op 35, and that will do, I suppose

Good stuff!