Quiz: Mystery scores

[Maciek]

396 - a Russian composer??

386 - John's Passion??

[lukeottevanger]

Yes, a Russian composer, but you're getting colder again - it's Tchaikovsky.

(you guessed:

396 = Czech
397 = Tchaik

I said, swap them round and you're nearer, the answer being:

396 = Tchaik
397 = geographically closer to Czech)

No, not the Saint John.

[Maciek]

I must be having an off day...

[Maciek]

397 Liszt PC no. 1?

[lukeottevanger]

AKA the Triangle Concerto (Hanslick)

[Maciek]

Please don't tell me the Tchaikovsky is from a piano solo piece?

And Bach no. 386 has me stumped too. I've found places in the Magnificat and B Minor Mass which are not exactly dissimilar, but still very far from a match. I don't think it's St. Matthew's Passion either - I only have a piano reduction, but I think I know it well enough. Is it one of the cantatas? We could have a number-guessing game!

[Mark G. Simon]

399 looks so much like Messiaenish bird calls, I'm going to say it's Reveil des Oiseaux.

[lukeottevanger]

399 looks so much like Messiaenish bird calls, I'm going to say it's Reveil des Oiseaux.

Yes it is. No it isn't. It's the most monomanically bird-filled music - no colour-chords, Greek rhythms, landscape noises, only one instrument group - he ever wrote, except possibly for part of St Francois.

[lukeottevanger]

Please don't tell me the Tchaikovsky is from a piano solo piece?

OK, I won't

And Bach no. 386 has me stumped too. I've found places in the Magnificat and B Minor Mass which are not exactly dissimilar, but still very far from a match. I don't think it's St. Matthew's Passion either - I only have a piano reduction, but I think I know it well enough. Is it one of the cantatas? We could have a number-guessing game!

I'd read back what I've said about this piece very carefully, otherwise we could be here some time...

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

The first notes of that counter-melody in the Bridge fragment remind me of Jerusalem...

[lukeottevanger]

Yes, they are the same, aren't they? But don't forget that what you see here is from the middle of the tune, not the opening.

[lukeottevanger]

I'm sure this tune is one you've known a long time, but have forgotten...

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I'm sure this tune is one you've known a long time, but have forgotten...

Of course.  0:) But this attack of amnesia is incurable. I don't know what could precede those bars. Woe is me... 

[karlhenning]

Did I suffer from amnesia? I forget.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Did I suffer from amnesia? I forget.

Welcome, fellow sufferer.

[lukeottevanger]

So we've established, then, that you have forgotten this old acquaintance. And you're having trouble bringing it to mind. Well, take a etc. etc.

[Maciek]

I'd read back what I've said about this piece very carefully, otherwise we could be here some time...

Well, being in here a long time is part of what this thread is all about. (Unfortunately. )

Could it be a piece by another composer copied/arranged by Bach?

[karlhenning]

So we've established, then, that you have forgotten this old acquaintance. And you're having trouble bringing it to mind. Well, take a etc. etc.

. . . walk on the wild side?

[Maciek]

Tchaikovsky Piano Trio op. 50
(var. no. 10 - Tempo di mazurka)

Damn you, Luke!

(I'll avenge myself, you know! )

[karlhenning]

Tchaikovsky Piano Trio op. 50
(var. no. 10 - Tempo di mazurka)

Damn you, Luke!

(I'll avenge myself, you know! )

Brilliant (all three points)!