Quiz: Mystery scores

[lukeottevanger]

Quickly TTT, as promised.

First list, in two parts:
Part one
and
Part two

Second list (one long part)

New list:

Set by Luke
293 - Tchaikovsky - Festival Overture on the Danish National Anthem - (Sforzando)
294 - Tovey - Piano Concerto - (Johan)
295 - ? -
296 - ? -
297 - Valen - Piano Sonata no 2 - (Johan)
298 - ? -
299 - ? -
300 - ? -
301 - ? -
302 - ? -


Links to clues:
First basic clues to LO 293-302

first follow-up clues to LO 294-302

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Okay, first guess: #294 Donald Tovey, Piano Concerto.

Second guess: #296 Godowski's Transcription of the 'Preislied'?

Third guess: #297 Fartein Valen, Second Piano Sonata

[lukeottevanger]

 

[lukeottevanger]

(Does Godowsky come at the end of the alphabet?)

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I knew it! Godowski is usually far more virtuosic. Mm...

(Does Godowsky come at the end of the alphabet?)

I forgot! 


Later addition: I am done for today. "Bye for now!"

[(poco) Sforzando]

It's the sort of thing that is best known to the world from the Nutcracker suite (coffee, tea, chocolate, Russia, Arabia, China...)

If I may: chocolate, coffee, and tea - to put them in their correct order - are from Spain, Arabia, and China respectively in the Nutracker. Russia is represented by a Cossack trepak, which Balanchine in his version converted to a dance of Candy Canes, a virtuoso 1.5 minutes using "hula hoops" that is given to the most acrobatic males in the company. In fact it's thanks to Balanchine that some Tchaikovsky is more likely to be heard (and seen) than in the concert hall. Of the larger works, he choreographed the 2nd piano concerto, 3rd and 4th suites, and 3rd symphony (the finale to Jewels).

Do you have any passages from the other two big Tchaikovsky ballets there?

[lukeottevanger]

If I may: chocolate, coffee, and tea - to put them in their correct order - are from Spain, Arabia, and China respectively in the Nutracker. Russia is represented by a Cossack trepak, which Balanchine in his version converted to a dance of Candy Canes, a virtuoso 1.5 minutes using "hula hoops" that is given to the most acrobatic males in the company.

Yes, I wasn't trying to pair like with like, just to give an indication of the sort of 'epicurian delights' and exoticisms that Tchaikovsky prepares for us - explicitly here in The Nutcracker, but also in pieces like the orchestral suites

Do you have any passages from the other two big Tchaikovsky ballets there?

No. Nor from the Suites, though I've mentioned them twice now. That doesn't mean I won't be using them in future, though - they are pretty spectacular scores.

[lukeottevanger]

In fact it's thanks to Balanchine that some Tchaikovsky is more likely to be heard (and seen) than in the concert hall. Of the larger works, he choreographed the 2nd piano concerto, 3rd and 4th suites, and 3rd symphony (the finale to Jewels).

Didn't know that, btw - thanks. Did he choreograph all of the 2nd Concerto? It's a big piece....

[(poco) Sforzando]

Didn't know that, btw - thanks. Did he choreograph all of the 2nd Concerto? It's a big piece....

Yes he did - all of it. It was originally entitled Ballet Imperial, but now goes by the more prosaic title of Concerto No. 2.

For the 3rd Symphony, which is the last piece in Balanchine's great triptych "Jewels,"* he left out the first movement and re-ordered the four remaining.

*Emeralds (in French style, to music by Fauré)
Rubies (American, using Stravinsky's Capriccio)
Diamonds (Russian, using the Tchai 3rd)

[lukeottevanger]

Yes he did - all of it. It was originally entitled Ballet Imperial, but now goes by the more prosaic title of Concerto No. 2.

What sort of thing does he do during the second movement? I'd be interested to know, as I really like that movement, don't you?

(Sounding all Eric on you here!)

[Maciek]

Donald Tovey, Piano Concerto... Fartein Valen, Second Piano Sonata...

Hmmm... Whatever happened to Greg's plea for more less obscure stuff?

[lukeottevanger]

Thing is, Johan only knows obscure stuff, it seems! The more famous composers remain....

[(poco) Sforzando]

What sort of thing does he do during the second movement? I'd be interested to know, as I really like that movement, don't you?

(Sounding all Eric on you here!)

I've only seen it once, and I don't have the best visual memory for ballet steps. With a little sleuthing I'm sure I'll find an answer, though.

[lukeottevanger]

Well, yes, it would be fascinating to see what Balanchine makes of the orchestrational/formal oddities of this movement.

[lukeottevanger]

No one got anything to add? 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

This connoisseur of the obscure hasn't...

[lukeottevanger]

Then I'm more shocked than you might think is justified. Not just about you, you understand...

[Maciek]

OK, OK, I'll dig into the thread and try to find the place where the actual scores are...

[lukeottevanger]

Not far back, and links not far above your last post.

[Maciek]

Hm, no ideas so far (I would have guessed the Valen, though - with those clues! ). Trying to figure out the penultimate one... Perhaps Guido will know it?