Quiz: Mystery scores

[lukeottevanger]

That Babbitt and his punning titles, eh?

Which reminds me, I wanted to listen to his The Joy of More Sextets tonight....

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

 

[Guido]

I have never heard a piece by either Babbitt or Wourinen. I am a bad man.

[karlhenning]

I have never heard a piece by either Babbitt or Wourinen. I am a bad man.

They're very different, of course.

Considering your own especially keen interests, Guido . . . I recommend Wuorinen's Chamber Concerto for Cello and 10 Instruments

[Maciek]

Has any composer yet written a Concerto for 10 cellos and an instrument?

[lukeottevanger]

Don't give Guido ideas.

[Paideia]

Hi, this is my first post! I love this forum - I've been reading it about a year now - but I don't like communicating with my clumsy English. Anyway:

366 is Christian Wolff's For 1, 2 or 3 people

I heard that two weeks ago here in Helsinki played by Wolff himself and others.

[karlhenning]

Welcome, Paideia!

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Hello, Paideia! Welcome! And join the fun!

[karlhenning]

Has any composer yet written a Concerto for 10 cellos and an instrument?

Not a concerto, but you know that's got to be one of the scorings for Fratres . . . .

[Maciek]

 

[Paideia]

Thanks for the welcomes! I know I should use more English and this forum is perfect place for that. I'll try to find some ways to contribute.

[Guido]

Fratres for 12 cellos yes - there are lots of cello ensemble pieces (Villa Lobos' Bachianas Brasilieras being the prime examples). In terms of concertos there's Tischenko's cello concerto no.2 for solo cello, orchestra of 48 cellos and 2 Double Basses. There's also Ridout's cello concerto no.3 "The Prisoner" for 8 orchestral cellos and solo cello. And Tavener's Wake up...and die for orchestral cellos (divided into 3 or 4) and solo cello. Of the Villa Lobos Bachianas, No.5 is scored for soprano soloist and 8 cellos. Oh and Satoh's innocence for 6 cellos, with soprano and violin solos. I'm sure that there are others.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Thanks for the welcomes! I know I should use more English and this forum is perfect place for that. I'll try to find some ways to contribute.

Please do!

[Guido]

And thanks for the tip Karl - I will look for that piece first.

[Mark G. Simon]

Fratres for 12 cellos yes - there are lots of cello ensemble pieces (Villa Lobos' Bachianas Brasilieras being the prime examples). In terms of concertos there's Tischenko's cello concerto no.2 for solo cello, orchestra of 48 cellos and 2 Double Basses. There's also Ridout's cello concerto no.3 "The Prisoner" for 8 orchestral cellos and solo cello. And Tavener's Wake up...and die for orchestral cellos (divided into 3 or 4) and solo cello. Of the Villa Lobos Bachianas, No.5 is scored for soprano soloist and 8 cellos. Oh and Satoh's innocence for 6 cellos, with soprano and violin solos. I'm sure that there are others.

Somewhere in the mists of time I wrote a piece called Cello Variations for five cellos, and it was played by the Ithaca College Cello Ensemble. At the time it was my best work, but that was a while ago.

[Maciek]

Still - no Concerto for 10 cellos and an instrument. Difficult to believe but true - a gaping hole in the repertoire. How could this have ever happened?

[Guido]

Somewhere in the mists of time I wrote a piece called Cello Variations for five cellos, and it was played by the Ithaca College Cello Ensemble. At the time it was my best work, but that was a while ago.

Sounds exciting. Is there a recording?

[Mark G. Simon]

Guido, speaking of a student work of mine which I had been foolish enough to mention:

Sounds exciting. Is there a recording?

Hmm....

Mentioning this piece sounded like a good at the time, I don't remember why. I feel a sudden terror though at the possibility of revealing it. This was a student work, and what I got out of it was the gradual realization that the atonal music I was writing was kind of a bogus atonality. It consisted of ideas that would have been better expressed within tonality dressed up with dissonances. I couldn't quite own up to it yet, but I was beginning to realize that I don't really have any truly atonal music in me. Husa was pleased with it though.

(listening to it now reminds me that the performance has a lot of unintended microtones in it, which I find excruciating).

[Symphonien]

I'll have a wild guess at 383:

Ligeti - San Francisco Polyphony ?