Quiz: Mystery scores

[(poco) Sforzando]

Quite a striking one, though...

Maybe you can tell that I challenged myself with that last set - to find passages in well-known scores which were nevertheless hard to identify, whilst not being atypical of the work as a whole. I think I succeeded best with the Holst, which after all is pretty much the popular classic to end all popular classics. Of the two which remain there's still one left which almost everyone here knows, I'm sure. I'd be surprised if you and the rest of the habituees of this thread (who, let's face it, are a cut above, don't you think?  0:) 0:) ) didn't know both, though.

I of course agree we're a cut above. Maybe two.

[greg]

A nice picture to help you think...

I like this one better:

[(poco) Sforzando]

I like this one better:

But it not arlésienne, and therefore not as good a clue.

[greg]

But it not arlésienne, and therefore not as good a clue.

No it not, but it cool.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I of course agree we're a cut above. Maybe two.

And that, Sfz, was the unkindest cut. Fie, fie! 

[lukeottevanger]

Yeah, but who's going to know? Only us enlightened ones read this thread. 

[(poco) Sforzando]

No it not, but it cool.

But it not as cool as you cool, GGGRRRRREEEEGGG.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Yeah, but who's going to know? Only us enlightened ones read this thread. 

Hoist with our own petard, to continue in the Shakespearean vein. But I'll have a look. Again...

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Okay - #319 Enescu, Piano Quintet?

[lukeottevanger]

That's more like it! Only Enescu scores look like that.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Excellent. I checked some scores at IMSLP, and they looked similar...

#298 isn't Alkan, is it? That famous pianist who is also a composer must be Hamelin...

[lukeottevanger]

No, it's not Alkan. But the pianist on the CD is Hamelin, that's certainly correct.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Godowsky?

[(poco) Sforzando]

That's more like it! Only Enescu scores look like that.

I don't think I have any Enescu scores. 

[lukeottevanger]

You need to remedy that, Sforzando - they are quite extraordinary, very finely detailed, like nothing else of their time.


Nope on the Godowsky.

Must be a few days since the disc appeared on the What Are You Listening To? thread. And the composer isn't mentioned by name on it. Bear in mind my clue, which I quite like  

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Nope on the Godowsky.

Must be a few days since the disc appeared on the What Are You Listening To? thread. And the composer isn't mentioned by name on it. Bear in mind my clue, which I quite like  

I'll soldier on.

Okay: Sonate en état de jazz -  Alexis Weissenberg (in a particular state)

[lukeottevanger]

That's right! And the 'sheer effect'? -

The Weissenberg number is a dimensionless number used in the study of viscoelastic flows. It is named after Karl Weissenberg. The dimensionless number is the ratio of the relaxation time of the fluid and a specific process time. For instance, in simple steady shear, the Weissenberg number, often abbreviated as Wi or We, is defined as the shear rate times the relaxation time

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Very ingenious... You must have had fun, you cruel man.

[lukeottevanger]

I will admit that was a tricky one. The rest are easier, I think.

[lukeottevanger]

(Four days later) Obviously not....