Quiz: Mystery scores

lukeottevanger · May 29, 2008, 12:46:26 PM

Well, it's pretty clear what that is - just a matter of finding who is responsible!

lukeottevanger · May 29, 2008, 01:44:48 PM

Right, well, it's obviously a solo violin arrangement of Rachmaninov's op 3/2 Prelude in C sharp minor. I think it's by someone with the surname Reed - en educated guess would be that this might be WH Reed, Elgar's friend, also a violinist and composer - the dates wouldn't be a problem either. But 'Reed' anyway, even if not this one!

Guido · May 29, 2008, 03:28:47 PM

Yes! Where did you find a reference to it? I wish some one would record it!

Symphonien · May 29, 2008, 11:11:01 PM

Quote from: lukeottevanger on May 29, 2008, 03:12:19 AM
Guess one of the others!

(263) - The Toccata-Troncata?

lukeottevanger · May 29, 2008, 11:43:55 PM

That's right!

(Don't know if anyone noticed, but I assumed Symphonien would get the correct answer, so I'd already updated the list yesterday!)

lukeottevanger · May 30, 2008, 12:09:29 AM

Quote from: Guido on May 29, 2008, 03:28:47 PM
Yes! Where did you find a reference to it? I wish some one would record it!

Advanced Googling (took some time because if you type most combinations of Rachmaninov, solo violin, arrangement, prelude into Google you get references to his arrangements of Bach, or simply long lists of CDs at various Amazonesque sites). Found a couple of references to the piece on violin forums, but only one to mention the name of the arranger. Adding the 'WH' was educated guesswork.

lukeottevanger · May 30, 2008, 12:16:07 AM

Lots completed recently, and a few new ones too - TTT

Old list:
part one
and
part two

current list

Set by Luke
165 - Schubert - Symphony no 4 - (Sforzando)
166 - Brahms - Serenade no 1 - (Sforzando)
167 - Bartok - Miraculous Mandarin (complete ballet) - (Sforzando)
168 - Janacek - Otce Nas - (revealed by Luke)
169 - Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante (wind solos) - (Sforzando)
170 - Brahms - Neue Liebeslieder waltzes - (Sforzando)
171 - Liszt - Totentanz - (Johan)
172 - Schumann - Mein Wagen rollet langsam- (Sforzando)
173 - Wagner - Rheingold - (Mark)
174 - Stravinsky - Mass - (Mark)
175 - Sibelius - Tapiola - (Mark)
176 - Debussy- Danse sacre et danse profane - (Sforzando)
177 - Berlioz - Roman Carnival - (Johan)
178 - Debussy - Pelleas et Melisande - (Sforzando)
179 - Rossini - La Cenerentola overture - (Sforzando)
180 - Scriabin - Prometheus - (Mark)
181 - Franck - Symphonic Variations - (Sforzando)
182 - Gershwin - Piano Concerto - (Mark)
183 - Busoni - Piano Concerto - (Robert)
184 - Honegger - Pacific 231 - (Greg)
185 - Ligeti - String Quartet no 1 - (revealed by Luke)
186 - Ligeti - String Quartet no 2 - (matticus)
187 - Holst - The Perfect Fool - (Johan)
188 - Tippett - Fantasia Concertante/Corelli - (Johan)
189 - Elgar - Cockaigne - (Johan)
190 - Tippett - Triple Concerto - (Mark)
191 - Ireland - Piano concerto - (Guido)
192 - Tippett - Symphony no 1 - (Mark)
193 - Vaughan Williams - The Lake in the Mountains - (revealed by Luke)
194 - Tippett - A Child of Our Time - (Robert)
195 - Rubbra - Prelude/Fugue theme of Cyril Scott - (Maciek)
196 - Berners - Le poisson d'or - (Guido)
197 - Tippett - The Midsummer Marriage - (Mark)
198 - Howells - Hymnus Paradisi - (Guido)
199 - Lutoslawski - Two Etudes - (Maciek)
200 - Bloch - Schelomo - (Guido)
201 - Thelonius Monk improvisation - (revealed by Luke)
202 - Humperdinck - Hansel und Gretel - (Sforzando)
203 - Hoddinott - The sun, the great luminary of the universe - (revealed by Luke)
204 - Zimmermann - Stille und umkehr - (revealed by Luke)
205 - Ligeti - Cello Concerto - (Guido)
206 - Glass - Vessels (from Koyaanisqatsi) - (revealed by Luke)
207 - Berio - Folksongs - (Symphonien)
208 - Part - Rottkappchen und der Wolf - (Sforzando)
209 - Ligeti - Lontano - (Greg)
210 - Ligeti - Artikulation - (Greg)
211 - Bussotti - La Passion Selon Sade - (Symphonien)
212 - Stevenson - Passacaglia on DSCH - (Johan)
213 - Grainger - Ramble on Love - (Sforzando)
214 - Penderecki - De Natura Sonoris I - (Mark/Greg)
215 - Cowell - Fabric - (Sforzando)
216 - Dallapiccola - Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera - (Symphonien)
217 - Xenakis - à r - (Johan)
218 - Ives - Improvisation (transcr. Dapogny) - (Mark)
219 - ? -
220 - Messiaen - Mode de valeurs... - (Guido)
221 - Messiaen - Tombeau de Paul Dukas - (Johan)
222 - Crumb - Agnus Dei (Makrokosmos II) - (Symphonien)
223 - Emsley - For Guitar 1 - (Johan)
224 - Villa-Lobos - Amazonas - (Johan)
225 - Koechlin - Les Heures Persanes - (Sforzando)
226 - Mussorgsky - Sunless - (Sforzando)
226 - Brant - Four Traumatics - (Sforzando)
227 - Schoenberg - Songs op 22 - (Mark)
228 - Foulds - Essays in the Modes - (Johan)
229 - Blacher - Preludes - (Sforzando)
230 - Gould - So you want to write a fugue - (Johan)
231 - Schoeck - Elegie - (Johan)
232 - Feldman - ? - (Guido)
233 - Gurdjieff - something-or-other-I'll-find-out-later - (Johan)
234 - ? -
235 - Rachmaninov - Piano Trio 1 - (Guido)
236 - Britten - Michelangelo Sonnets - (Sforzando)
237 - Wyschnegradsky - Etude sur le carré magique sonore - (Johan)
238 - ? -
239 - Mosolov - Two Dances op 23b - (Johan)
240 - Bryars - Mr Sunshine - (Sforzando)
241 - Francaix - La Promenade d'un musicologue éclectique - (Johan)
242 - Britten - Cadenza for Mozart K482 - (Sforzando)
243 - Sciarrino - Anamorfosi - (Johan)
244 - Nancarrow - ? - (Sforzando)
245 - ? -
246 - Beethoven - Equali - (Mark)
247 - Boulez - Notations - (Sforzando)
248 - Ustvolskaya - Piano Sonata no 6 - (Johan)
249 - Hamelin - Preambulum to an Imaginary Piano Symphony - (Johan)
250 - Stockhausen - Gruppen - (Sforzando)
251 - Elgar - Carillon - (Chrone)
252 - Ravel - Ronsard à son âme - (Johan)
253 - Chopin (aged 7) - Polonaise - (Sforzando)
254 - Chopin reconstr. Kallberg - 'Trill' Prelude - (Sforzando)
255 - Scriabin - Fantasy for 2 pianos - (Symphonien)
256 - Ravel - Noël des jouets - (Johan)
257 - ? -
258 - Handel - Guilio Cesare - (Sforzando)
259 - Gliere - Concerto for Coloratura Soprano - (Sforzando)
260 - Gorecki - 5 pieces for 2 pianos - (Symphonien)
261 - Stravinsky - Tango - (Sforzando)
262 - Webern - Movement (or Sonata) - (Symphonien)
263 - Gubaidulina - Toccata Troncata - (Symphonien)
264 - ? -
265 - Eötvös - Replica - (Symphonien)
266 - Lekeu - Piano Sonata - Sforzando)
267 - Markevitch - Variations on a Theme by Handel - (Sforzando)
268 - Lachenmann - Five Variations on a Theme of Schubert - (Symphonien)
269/269b - Suk - O Mamince - (Johan)
270 - Rimsky-Korsakov - Piano Concerto - (Sforzando)
271 - Schreker - ? - (Sforzando)
272 - ? -
273 - Brian - John Dowland's Fancy - (Johan)
274 - Brahms - Schumann Variations - (Sforzando)
275 - Brahms - Variations/original theme - (Sforzando)
276 - ? -
277 - ? -

Set by Greg
31 - Mahler - Ressurection symphony - (Johan)

Set by Symphonien
1 - Lachenmann - Pression - (Luke)
2 - Stravinsky - Les noces - (Johan)
3 - Schoenberg - A Survivor from Warsaw - (Mark)
4 - Murail - Désintégrations - (Luke)
5 - Schnittke - Prelude in memoriam Dmitiri Shostakovich - (Mark)
6 - Sciarrino - Sei quartetti brevi - (Luke)
7 - Stockhausen - Es (aus der sieben Tage) - (Mark)
8 - Nietzsche - There flows a brook - (Guido)

Set by Guido
21 - Beethoven - Triple Concerto - (Luke)
22 - Ligeti - Hungarian Rock - (Luke)
23 - Bartok - Study for the Left Hand - (Luke)
24 - Miaskovsky - Cello Sonata 2 - (Luke)
25 - Schulhoff - Violin Sonata - (Luke)
26 - Webern - Piece for cello and piano - (Luke)
27 - Tchaikovsky - Rococo Variations - (Luke)
28 - Scarlatti - Sonata K175 - (Luke)
29 - Vaughan Williams - Romance - (Luke)
30a-c - Ives - Skethces for Universe Symphony - (Luke)
31 - Korngold - Romance-Impromptu - (Johan)
32 - Ives - Some Southpaw Pitching - (Luke)
33 - Honegger - Cello concerto - (Luke)
34 - Ysaye - Solo Cello Sonata - (Luke)
35 - Klengel - Hymnus - (Luke)
36 - Piazzolla - Cuatro Estaciones porteña - (Luke)
37 - T. Newman - score to American Beauty - (Luke)
38 - Janacek - Violin Sonata - (Luke)
39 - Ravel - Concerto for the Left Hand - (Luke)
40 - Bartok - Solo Violin Sonata - (Luke)
41 - Rachmaninov arr. Reed - C# minor Prelude - (Luke)

Set by Sforzando
1 - Schubert - Reliquie Sonata - (Luke)
2 - Feldman - Last pieces - (Guido)
3 - Griffes - The White Peacock - (Luke)
4 - Ferneyhough - Superscriptio - (Mark)
5 - Ibert - Le petit ane blanc - (Guido)
6 - Ruggles - Sun-Treader - (Mark)
7 - Verdi - original version of Liber Scriptus, Manzoni Requiem - (Luke)
8 - Berwald - Symphony no 3 - (Mark)
9 - Rimsky-Korsakov - Le coq d'or - (Mark)
9(a) - Beethoven - sketchbook for opp 130, 132 - (Luke)
10 - Gluck - Le calme entre dans ma coeur (Iphigénie en Tauride) - (Luke)
11 - Rameau - Les tendres plaintes - (Luke)
12 - Roussel - Le festin de l'araignée - (Luke)
13 - Alfvén - First Swedish Rhapsody (Midsommarvaka) - (Johan)
14 - Panufnik - Jagiellonian Triptych - (Johan)
15 - Respighi - Brazillian Impressions - (Luke)
16 - Beach - Gaelic Symphony - (Luke)
17 - Hoffmann - Piece for Orchestra - (Luke)
18 - Flothuis - Symphonic Music - (Luke)
19 - von Einem - Philadelphia Symphony - (Luke)
20 - Martin - Concerto pour sept instrument à vents - (Luke)
21 - Bernstein - Serenade - (Luke)
22 - Larry Rinkel - Sonatina - (Luke)
23 - Chabrier - Bourrée Fantasque - (Johan)
24 - Wolf - Er ist's - (Luke)
25 - Berlioz - Benvenuto Cellini - (Luke)
26 - Hummel - Trumpet Concerto - (Luke)
27 - Varese - Density 21.5 - (Luke)
28 - Gottschalk - Grand Tarantelle - (Johan)
29 - Berio - Sequenza XI - (Luke)
30 - Schumann - Fantasy op 17 (orig. ending) - (Luke)
31 - Schmidt - The Fantasticks - (Luke)
32 - Wolf - Ganymed - (Luke)
33 - Wagner - Die Meistersinger.. - (Luke)
34 - Wagner - Das Rheingold - (Luke)
35 - Alkan - Allegro Barbaro (no 5, Etudes Dans Tous Les Tons Majeurs) - (Johan)
36 - Massenet - Don Quichotte - (Johan)
37 - Schumann - Genoveva - (Johan)
38 - Meyerbeer - Les Huguenots - (Chrone)
39 - Bolling - Picnic Suite - (Luke)
40 - Byrd - Great Service - (Luke)
41 - Walton - Belshazzar's Feast - (Luke)
42 - Boulez - First Sonata - (Luke)
43 - Handel - Saul - (Luke)
44 - Glanville Hicks - The Transposed Heads - (Mark)
45 - Barraque - Piano Sonata - (Luke)
46 - Dvorak - Symphony no 3 - (Luke)
47 - Liszt - Hungarian Folksong - (Luke)
48 - Clementi - Sonata op 40/2 - (Luke)

Set by Chrone
1 - Gibbons - Cries of London - (Sforzando)
2 - Billings - Jargon - (Sforzando)
3 - Joplin - Treemonisha - (Mark)

Set by Karl
1 - Henning - Wedding Music - (Luke)

lukeottevanger · May 30, 2008, 04:45:14 AM

Keeping things moving, here are four easy ones, with a simple link of the sort Maciek used to do ('used to' - I hate that! we need The Pole back here more often!)

LO 274, 275, 276, 277

(poco) Sforzando · May 30, 2008, 05:24:40 AM

274 is var 10 from the Brahms Variations on a Schumann theme, op. 9.

275 is also Brahms, var 7 from the Variations on an Original Theme, op. 21/1.

lukeottevanger · May 30, 2008, 05:42:32 AM

Indeed - my two favourite Brahms Variation sets, preferring, as I do, the intimate, lyrical and fantastical Brahms to the architectonic feats of the Handel set or the pyrotechnics of the Paganini variations. It is obvious why these two sets, both more private and less grand in manner than their more famous, later counterparts, should be comparatively little known, but it's a sad state of affairs as they both contain some of Brahms's most gorgeous music.

The variation I gave from the Schumann set shows off Brahms's contrapuntal ingenuity - note how the bass line is the inversion of the melodic line, and also, a few bars later, how that bass, transferred into an inner voice, becomes the beginning of an inverted canon with the melodic line. The variation from the op 21/1 set is a simple two part distillation of the theme - and at the same time reveals how close the contrapuntal leanings of Brahms could bring him, even early on, to Webernian textures.

lukeottevanger · June 01, 2008, 02:53:50 AM

A scanning-session this morning, to re-inject life here (I hope):

LO 278 - a piece by the composer referred to in the title of 272 (I hope you'd got that far). The piece you see here is in the same vein as the piece hinted at in 272, though it isn't the same piece.

lukeottevanger · June 01, 2008, 02:54:56 AM

LO 279

by the same composer as 278. There are quotations from a very famous piece here, clear as day.

lukeottevanger · June 01, 2008, 02:56:20 AM

LO 280

One of the greatest pieces of music in the world (IMO, but I'm right)

lukeottevanger · June 01, 2008, 02:57:18 AM

LO 281

Really easy, and I'm not just saying that only to infuriate you.

lukeottevanger · June 01, 2008, 02:58:33 AM

LO 282

A much maligned piece. Sorry that half the scan is blurry, but you get the gist; nothing is missing that would have been much more of a clue

lukeottevanger · June 01, 2008, 02:59:25 AM

LO 283

lukeottevanger · June 01, 2008, 03:01:03 AM

LO 284

(c.w. 283 and, for a different reason, 271) This is the very end of this piece, and there is a quasi-quotation here which pays homage to the very end of the first piece written in this form.

lukeottevanger · June 01, 2008, 03:02:28 AM

Last new one - LO 285

shares a very precise literary link with one of my much earlier scores.

lukeottevanger · June 01, 2008, 03:06:34 AM

greg · June 01, 2008, 05:16:18 AM

281- DSCH's 8th String Quartet

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