Quiz: Mystery scores

[lukeottevanger]

The Lutoslawski Concerto for Orchestra is tonal, btw. I don't know why it isn't even more famous than it is - it's a spectacular work, a real crowd-pleaser but full of subtle things. Sorry if my clue misled.

The Dukas is also correct - hence my clue about being able to hear my complaints from far away if you don't get it! Obviously the quoted work is that piece by Debussy that Eric quite likes; Dukas turns it into something troubling, pained but equally sensitive. A typically refined work.

[(poco) Sforzando]

The Lutoslawski Concerto for Orchestra is tonal, btw.

I know. But I've only heard it once that I can remember. Today, however, I brought my CDs of the Luto CfO and the Dillon pieces to work for my lunchtime listening session. (Or actually, any time I feel like putting my headphones on to use with my little portable CD player.) That's another good thing about this thread; it can stimulate people to dig out pieces they've not paid attention to. I have a suspicion that Jez will soon be acquiring the Brahms Horn Trio, with that rollicking finale.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I have a suspicion that Jez will soon be acquiring the Brahms Horn Trio, with that rollicking finale.

Mea culpa - I have Brahms's complete chamber music on Brilliant... 

But there is so much music to listen to, apart from living and writing! 

But I'll give the Horn Trio a spin very soon.  0:)

[lukeottevanger]

But there is so much music to listen to, apart from living and writing! 

That's very true; however, the Brahms chamber music should always be at the top of the pile 

Enjoy your listening, Sfz! You have this Dillon piece, do you?

[(poco) Sforzando]

Enjoy your listening, Sfz! You have this Dillon piece, do you?

Oh, yes.

[lukeottevanger]

The only one of mine which remains is 348, for which I forgot to give a clue earlier, stupidly. As per an earlier clue, it's by a composer who has appeared in my more recent scores already. The instrumentation is unique to this piece, pretty clearly. The whole work is in a certain sense an enormously extended E flat major chord, though this effect is spoiled somewhat on the only recording I know of, in which the final moments are allowed to drift 'dramatically' away from that key. It spoils is somewhat. That recording, btw, is on very famous label, but not one usually associated with classical music; this composer was the exception to this rule.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Is it Gerald Barry again? There are Irish references in the text...

[lukeottevanger]

No, though the Celtic thing is significant.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Tavener, Celtic Requiem

[lukeottevanger]

 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

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 - Weissenberg - Sonate en etat de Jazz - (Johan)
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 - Berlioz - Rustic Serenade - (revealed by Luke)
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 - Bloch - Concerto Grosso no 1 - (Sforzando)
311 - Bernstein - 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 - Chausson - Poeme - (Johan)
319 - Enescu - Piano Quintet - (Johan)
320 - Heinrich - A Chromatic Ramble of the Peregrine Harmonist - (Johan)
321 - Lili Boulanger - Vielle priere bouddhique - (Johan)
322 - Dukas - La plainte, au loin, du faune - (Sforzando)
323 - Maxwell Davies - The Lighthouse - (Johan)
324 - Janacek - Adagio - (Johan)
325 - Barry - Au Milieu - (Johan)
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 - Bergman - Lament and Incantation - (Johan)
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 - Hungarian Folkmusic - (Johan)
343 - Berlioz - Romeo et Juliette - (Sforzando)
344 - Dillon - Windowas and Canopies - (Sforzando)
345 - Panufnik - Pentasonata - (Maciek)
346 - Bizet - L'Arlesienne (suite 1) - (Sforzando)
347 - Saint-Saens - Organ Symphony - (Sforzando)
348 - Tavener - Celtic Requiem - (Johan)
349 - Tavener - The Protecting Veil - (Guido)
350 - Orff - Carmina Burana - (Sforzando)
351 - Holst - The Planets - (Sforzando)
352 - Tchaikovsky - Capriccio Italien - (Mark) -
353 - Bizet - Symphony - (Sforzando)
354 - Janacek - Glagolitic Mass - (Johan)
355 - Haydn - Symhpony no 6 - (Mark)
356 - Rachmaninov - Piano concerto 3 - (Mark)
357 - Lutoslawski - Concerto for orchestra - (Maciek)
358 - Ravel - Daphnis et Chloe - (Mark)
359 - Tavener - Coplas (Ultimos Ritos) - (Chrone)
360 - Verdi - Aida - (Sforzando)
361 - Strauss - Alpensinfonie - (Johan)


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 - Song of Orpheus - (Luke)
46 - Ives - Sunrise - (Luke)
47 - Feldman - Cello and Orchestra - (Luke)
48 - Harrison - Suite for Symphonic Strings - (Luke)
49 - Barber - Cello Concerto - (Luke)
50 - Ruggles - Angels - (Luke)
51 - Prokofiev - Sinfonia Concertante - (Luke)
52 - ? -

Set by Greg
32 - Haydn - Symphony no 99 - (Sforzando)

[lukeottevanger]

Double 

Now we just need Guido to stop by and give us a 'push in the right direction' on his last two.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Double 

Now we just need Guido to stop by and give us a 'push in the right direction' on his last two.

And then I'll post another dozen...

[lukeottevanger]

No need to wait for Guido, though, for that! 

[Guido]

OK - well as you can see one of mine is for string orchestra, but the cello line is unusually high - in fact it is a solo and has the tune all the way through. The piece is not particularly well known one by the composer, but is a real treasure. It was recorded by Bernstein, so it's not that obscure.

The other one is a very early piano piece by this composer, with a rather Brahmsian flavour. I love the way you can see so clearly all the strands of the music on this first page - so beautiful to look at, let alone hear!

Just to make it really obvious for you, rather predictably, these are by some of my favourite composers - I don't have enough money yet to buy scores by composers that I am not completely in love with!!

[(poco) Sforzando]

OK - well as you can see one of mine is for string orchestra, but the cello line is unusually high - in fact it is a solo and has the tune all the way through. The piece is not particularly well known one by the composer, but is a real treasure. It was recorded by Bernstein, so it's not that obscure.

The other one is a very early piano piece by this composer, with a rather Brahmsian flavour. I love the way you can see so clearly all the strands of the music on this first page - so beautiful to look at, let alone hear!

Just to make it really obvious for you, rather predictably, these are by some of my favourite composers - I don't have enough money yet to buy scores by composers that I am not completely in love with!!

Going through Lenny's discrography, and not being at home to check my CDs (and I think I have this one but I know I haven't listened to it yet), I'll say your string orchestra one could be William Schuman's 5th symphony.
http://www.leonardbernstein.com/lifeswork/discography/

[Guido]

Nope.

[lukeottevanger]

I reckon 52 might well be the Ives Hymn for stings, Largo cantabile. What I've heard of the work would fit. And Bernstein recorded it. And Guido like Ives a little, I believe.

[lukeottevanger]

Yes, that would fit - it's for string quartet + double bass, or for string orchestra, as LB recorded it.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Yes, that would fit - it's for string quartet + double bass, or for string orchestra, as LB recorded it.

Doesn't look much like Ives. 

Whoever plays that piano piece needs a stretch like an albatross.