Quiz: Mystery scores

[lukeottevanger]

Yes, that matches OK

[lukeottevanger]

48 is evidently Lou Harrison. I don't think it's from his 2nd Suite for Strings (though I may be wrong), so I'm going to guess at either his 1st ditto, or his later (but based on earlier music) Suite for Symphonic Strings.

[lukeottevanger]

51 is clearly Russian. It may be something like the middle movement of Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante, though that's a work I've only heard once, a long time ago, so I'm not sure.

[Guido]

Right on the Shostakovich 10th Symphony. Boring I know, but this is my favourite of the 15 - I love this last movement's terrifying manic happyness mixed with utter horror and hideous barbarism. This is one of the few warhorses that speaks to me from start to finish in such an extremely personal way.

Sunrise is also right - really like nothing else in his oevre - especially this page.... one wonders whether it was finished. This tragic, desolate vein is used in very few works other works of his, perhaps most notably and beautifully in his song Like a Sick Eagle (one of the saddest things by any composer I think - written in the shadow of his wife Harmony's miscarriage and emergency hysterectomy)

no.45 is not Rouse's concerto - I'd be interested to see why you thought that though.

48 is Lou Harrison's Suite for Symphonic Strings - Chorale.

I am surprised at your ignorance of Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante - it was Shostakovich's favourite piece by Prokofiev and is truly masterly in every way. Took me a long time to get into though - it's enormous and extremely complex. Right piece, wrong movement - this comes from the last movement and is a brilliant example of how a tremendous amount of power is implied without the cello being swamped - great orchestration, and these final few bars are some of the most incredible in the whole piece.

[lukeottevanger]

47 - Feldman's Cello and Orchestra, I think

[lukeottevanger]

no.45 is not Rouse's concerto - I'd be interested to see why you thought that though.

Because Rouse's Concerto ends with the cello quoting William Schuman's setting of Orpheus with his lute, from which the words appended to the cello part here come, I think.

I am surprised at your ignorance of Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante - it was Shostakovich's favourite piece by Prokofiev and is truly masterly in every way. Took me a long time to get into though - it's enormous and extremely complex. Right piece, wrong movement - this comes from the last movement and is a brilliant example of how a tremendous amount of power is implied without the cello being swamped - great orchestration, and these final few bars are some of the most incredible in the whole piece.

Well, then, I think I did quite well to get it  0:)

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Congrats, Luke - 3000 posts!

[lukeottevanger]

Oh yes! How appropriate that a mention of Feldman should mark this landmark in my longwindedness.... 

[Guido]

Correct on the Feldman.

You have the right composer and almost the right composition title for no.45 Luke - I didn't kow that the Rouse concerto quoted this piece, and you'll now know another reason why... Is the Rouse one that you know well?

[lukeottevanger]

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 - Wagner - Fantasy in F# minor - (Sforzando)
296 - Wagner-Wolf - Paraphrase über "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" - (Johan)
297 - Valen - Piano Sonata no 2 - (Johan)
298 - ? -
299 - Wolf-Ferrari - Violin Sonata in A minor - (Sforzando)
300 - Theo Ysaye - Piano Concerto op 9 - (Johan)
301 - Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto no 2 - (revealed by Luke)
302 - Tchaikovsky - The Tempest - (Sforzando)
303 - Cage - from Songbooks - (Johan)
304 - Busoni - Concerto for piano and strings op 17 - (Johan)
305 - ? -
306 - Beethoven - Adagio (mandolin/piano) - (Sforzando)
307 - Berg - Four pieces for clarinet and piano - (Sforzando)
308 - Arensky - Piano Trio no 1 - (Sforzando)
309 - Antheil - Sonata no 2 'The Airplane' - (Greg)
310 - ? -
311 - Berstein - Wonderful Town - (Sforzando)
312 - Barber - Hesitation Tango - (Guido)
313 - Carpenter - Krazy Kat - (Sforzando)
314 - Bax - Harp Quintet - (Guido)
315 - Berg - Abschied - (Johan)
316 - Bernstein - La Bonne Cuisine - (Sforzando)
317 - Bruckner - Christus factus est pro nobis - (Johan)
318 - ? -
319 - ? -
320 - Heinrich - A Chromatic Ramble of the Peregrine Harmonist - (Johan)
321 - Lili Boulanger - Vielle priere bouddhique - (Johan)
322 - ? -
323 - ? -
324 - ? -
325 - ? -
326 - Prokofiev - Classical Symphony - (Sforzando)
327 - Shostakovich - Fugue in D flat major (from the 24) - (Sforzando)
328 - Sibelius - Symphony no 3 - (Mark)
329  - Copland - Piano Fantasy - (Sforzando)
330 - Stevenson - Prelude, Fugue and Fantasy on Busoni's Faust - (Johan)
331 - Musgrave - Narcissus - (Johan)
332 - ? -
333 - Schubert - G major quartet - (Sforzando)
334 - Nielsen - Flute Concerto - (Johan)
335 - Haydn - Farewell Symphony - (Sforzando)
336 - Elgar - Gerontius - (Johan)
337 - Dukas - L'Aprenti Sorcier - (Sforzando)
338 - Strauss - Die Frau ohne Schatten - (Sforzando)
339 - Berlioz - Harold in Italy - (Sforzando)
340 - Stravinsky - Threni - (Sforzando)
341 - Schoenberg - Gurrelieder - (Johan)
342 - Kodaly - ? = (Johan)
343 - Berlioz - Romeo et Juliette - (Sforzando)
344 - ? -
345 - ? -


Set by Greta
1 - Berio - Sequenza IXb - (Luke)
2 - Dallapiccola - Quaderno musicale di Annalibera - (Luke)
3 - Stravinsky - Petrouchka - (Luke)
4 - Brahms - op 119/3 - (Luke)
5 - Adams - Harmonielehre - (Luke)
6 - Sibelius - Kullervo - (Luke)
7 - Grainger - Lincolnshire Posy - (Chrone)

Set by Chrone:
4 - Rogers - Guadalcanal March - (Mark)
5 - Hermann - Vertigo - (Luke)

Set by Sforzando
49 - Faure - Violin Sonata no 2 - (Luke)
50 - Sullivan - The Mikado - (Mark)
51 - Schutz - Ich ruf zu dir - (Luke)
52 - Puccini - La Rondine - (Luke)
53 - Puccini - Messa di Gloria - (Luke)
54 - Prokofiev - Piano Concerto 4 - (Luke)
55 - Peter Susser - Quatre Bêtises - (revealed by Sforzando)
56 - Copland - 8 Dickinson Songs - (Luke)
57 - Hindemith - The Four Temperaments - (Luke)
58 - Bernstein - Songfest - (Luke)
59 - Bernstein - Songfest - (Luke)
60 - Grieg - Slatter - (Luke)
61 - Beethoven - Kakadu Variations (Luke)
62 - Beethoven - Fugue for string quintet - (Luke)
63 - Prokofiev - Overture on Hebrew Themes - (Mark)
64 - Hindemith - Der Schwanendreher - (Luke)
65 - Verdi - Quartet - (Luke)
66 - Sullivan - Cox and Box - (Luke)
67 - Bernstein - Candide - (Luke)
68 - Sondheim - A Little Night Music - (Luke)
69 - Gershwin - An American in Paris - (Luke)
70 - Egge - Symphony no 3 (Louisville) - (Luke)
71 - Butterworth - A Shropshire Lad (Luke)
72 - Falla - El retabloe de Maese Pedro - (Luke)
73 - Wolf-Ferrari - IL segreto di Susanna - (Luke)
74 - Beethoven - Ah, perfido - (Johan)
75 - Berlioz - La Mort de Cleopatre - (Luke)
76 - Boyce - Symphony no 1 - (Luke)

Set by Guido
42 - Shostakovich - Symphony no 10 - (Johan)
43 - Part - Silouans Song - (Luke)
44 - ? -
45 - W Schuman - ? - (Luke)
46 - Ives - Sunrise - (Luke)
47 - Feldman - Cello and Orchestra - (Luke)
48 - Harrison - Suite for Symphonic Strings - (Luke)
49 - ? -
50 - ? -
51 - ? -
52 - ? -

Clues to Luke's remaining ones

[Guido]

No sorry - not Rouse - Schuman is the correct composer.

[lukeottevanger]

Correct on the Feldman.

You have the right composer and almost the right composition title for no.45 Luke - I didn't kow that the Rouse concerto quoted this piece, and you'll now know another reason why... Is the Rouse one that you know well?

You can't mean Rouse - there's nothing else for cello + orch in his output. So do you mean Schuman?

[lukeottevanger]

Ha! 

[lukeottevanger]

A Song of Orpheus (1961)

[Guido]

yes! A lovely piece, if not quite top notch. This is from the near the beginning, and shows this beautiful cello solo with strings, and then the prominent harp part (prsumably representing the lute). I always thought that the recording I have by Leonard Rose was extremely beautiful, but I wasn't sure exactly why it was so beautiful in this passage passage... now I know - he plays the double sharps as double sharps rather than as a whole tone above - another testament to the incredibly subtle and intelligent attention to detail lavished on everything he played.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

My latest acquisition -

[lukeottevanger]

 

On emusic? All downloaded yet? Let me know what you make of it.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

On emusic? All downloaded yet?

No, on eClassical. Yes, for just 5 dollars (=3,5 euros)!

Let me know what you make of it.

I will.

[lukeottevanger]

Very obvious, once you look at it properly - 43 - Arvo Part, Silouans Song

[lukeottevanger]

Obvious because clearly a strictly tintinabular work in Part's purer vein - clear T voices and M voices, to use Paul Hillier's terminology, the latter in contrary motion. That fact plus the key signature = Silouans Song, in my mind. And I checked, anyway