Quiz: Mystery scores

[Luke]

Dun. Duh.

Well Dun, in fact



Both correct, of course. All the Williams ones found now, I think. Who is the other guy (I mean from those last seven, in which there were only two composers, and Williams was one.) Some/most/all of you will know or know of at least one of these pieces, and some of you played it too.

[Maciek]

Duh? Duh?! Oh, why do I even bother...

I've added clues, by the way.

[Luke]

Maciek 146 is the Saint-Saens PC2 after all! I thought it might be, there aren't that many French Romantic PCs in G minor or with G minor movements that I can easily think of, this is the obvious one, and the first movement is an Andante Sostenuto. But I knew it didn't start like this, and this looked like a beginning, so I didn't even check. No matter, now I have, and it is the one - this is the orchestral entry after the opening piano solo.

[Luke]

Duh? Duh?! Oh, why do I even bother...

The Duh wasn't directed at you. It was just a general expostulation meaning      'so many scores, my brain aches...' 

[Maciek]

Oh, OK. For me, the Dun wasn't all that easy. But ultimately discoverable (is that a word? ah, yes, it's in the dictionary at least...).

And yes, you're right - it's the Saint-Saens!

*cheering*

[Luke]

I'm not sure how you identified it, but for my part I tried to chose the page of the Dun which had the most clues - the explicitly Chinese instruments, the ripping paper, and of course, the cello+percussion scoring to help identify the piece itself once the composer had been guessed at.

[Maciek]

Here's another one.

[Luke]

That looks like Cheating, Lying, Stealing by David Lang (interesting composer, he)

[Luke]

Back atcha  - same composer (aren't I kind to save you the effort?), what's the piece:

[Maciek]

Didn't expect mine to stay up long.

I see his GMG thread is exactly one post long.

As to yours... I'm stumped. I thought it could be from Are you experienced? but can't find anything exactly like that (unless I missed it?). I'm thinking Music For Gracious Living maybe?, but it's just a guess.

[Maciek]

That was silly of me - not to look at the music. (And a bit typical of how I sometimes approach this stuff... ) It's his arrangement of Born to be wild.

[Luke]

It certainly is! Do you know any Lang? I think he's quite impressive, myself.

Here's another (not David Lang this time, clearly, but a composer I find very interesting)

[Luke]

...and here's another, which is by a composer whose work I already have as one of my unguessed ones. In fact, that work shares something very obvious with this one, and that fact might help identify either or both of them.

[Maciek]

Do you know any Lang? I think he's quite impressive, myself.

Well, my first encounter was Cheating, lying, stealing when Bang on a can came to Warsaw Autumn in... whatever year the "American" Warsaw Autumn was. I'm guessing 2000, 2001 or whereabouts? I didn't go to that concert (I think I had a cold or something) but listened to it on the radio and was really impressed. And so that piece is, for me, somehow, the epitome of a certain brand of American contemporary music that I didn't know until then (and I mean that in a very good way, I'm NOT typing it with a haughty ironic smirk). And I guess I've heard more of his music, but having browsed through his site today, I realize that there's still a lot of very interesting stuff to be discovered. The little bits of Are you experienced that I've just sampled were also quite enticing.

[Luke]

Here's one I had but forgot to post - that's why it has an 'old' number, 39. I'm compiling an up-to-date list at the moment, this will appear in it in the correct place! But - an extra clue - it goes well with the 'next' one, my number 40, previously posted.

EDIT - no, I'm wrong, I did put up my 39, further back than I thought. So will renumber this one 56, and put it into the list like that. Sorry!    Still, compare it to my number 40...

[Luke]

UPDATED LIST:

Set by EigenUser
1 - Ligeti - Clocks and Clouds - Sfz
2 - Bartok - Piano concerto 1 - amw (I think this is a PC, I can't see the pic any more, and amw just says Bartok 1, could be an SQ I suppose...)
3 - Gershwin - Cuban Overture - Sfz
4 - Biber - Mystery Sonata XI - amw (I may have these two the wrong way round)
also another in here somewhere, I casn't work them out now the pics are gone - but it was Hermann - Psycho - Maciek
5 - Ravel - Un barque sur l'ocean - amw
6 - Debussy - Jeux - amw
7 - Ives - Central Park in the Dark - amw
8 - Stravinsky - Agon - amw
9 - Stravinsky - Scherzo a la Russe - Maciek
10 - Schoenberg - op 16 in chamber arr - Luke
11 - Messiaen - Des Canyons - amw
12 - Schoenberg - Piano Concerto - Sfz
13 - Ohana - Piano Concerto - amw
14 - Mackey - Ars Moriendi - Maciek
15 - Milhaud - Suite en sol - Maciek
16 - Schoenberg op 9 in pno arr - Luke
17 - Debussy - Sirenes in pno arr - Luke
18 - ? -
19 - Ligeti - Nouvelles Aventures - Luke
20 - ? -
21 - ? -
22 - Ohana - Cello Concerto 'In Dark and Blue' - Luke
24 - tentatively identified as Boulez - Notations - Luke

Set by amw
1 - Rorem - Piano concerto for the Left Hand - lescamil
2 - Ades -Asyla - lescamil
3 - ? -
4 - Grieg - Slatter - Sfz
5 - Janacek - Riklada - revealed by amw (and yes, amw, as you guess, I would have got it!)
6 - ? -
7 - Grisey - Quatre Chants pour franchir le Seuil - Rappy
8 - Berio - Visage - revealed by amw
9 - Debussy - Etude (pour les sonorites opposees) - Luke
10 - Dutilleux - ainsi la nuit - EigenUser
11 - Lachenmann - Tanzsuite mit Deutschlandlied - Luke
12 - Sorabji - Opus Clavicembalisticum - Luke
13 - ? -
14 - van Dieren - String Quartet no 2 - Luke

Set by Luke
483/1 - Falla - Psyche - Sfz
484/2 - Stravinksy - Chorale from Tombeau de Debussy - amw
485/3 - Froberger - Lamentation/Ferdinand III - amw
486/4 - Dussek - Sorrows of Marie Antoinette - amw
487/5 - Chisholm - Piobaireachd - Maciek
488/6 - de la Rue - Requiem - Sfz
489/7 - Ravel - Menuet (posth) - Maciek
490/8 - ? -
491/9 - ? -
492/10 - Gaspard Le Roux - Pièces de clavessin - Maciek
493/11 - ? -
494/12 - ? -
495/13 - ? -
496/14 - Niemann - Hamburg - Maciek
497/15 - Niemann - Phantisien im Bremer Ratskeller - revealed by Luke
498/16 - Schulhoff - Duo - Maciek
499/17 - Veress - String Trio - Maciek
500/18 - Schikele - The Short-Tempered Clavier - composer guessed by amw, piece revealed by Luke
501/19 - Berberian - Stripsody - Dax
502/20 -  Swann - The Road Goes Ever On - Maciek
503/21 - And the same to you - Dudley Moore - Maciek
504/22 - Wallfisch -- Chopin's Waterloo - Maciek
505/23 - Davies - The Matrix Soundtrack - Maciek
506/24 - ? -
507/25 - Delage - Ragmalika - revealed by Luke after he messed up and left the piece identified in his clues 
508/26 - Messiaen - Cinq Rechants - lescamil
509/27 - ? -
510/28 - Maxwell Davies - ? - amw got the composer
511/29 - Pfitzner - Palestrina - Maciek
512/30 - ? -
513/31 - Stephan - Music for Orchestra - Maciek
514/32 - Wayne - War of the Worlds - Maciek
515/33 - Debussy - Pierrot - Maciek with honourable mention to mc ukrneal
516/34 - Adams - Johns Book of Alleged Dances - amw
517/35 - Berg - Chamber Concerto in Clarinet/Violin/Pno arr by Berg - amw/Karl
518/36 - Berio - Cries of London - Maciek
519/37 - Boulez - Messagesquisse - amw
520/38 - Britten - The Little Sweep - listener -
521/39 - ? -
522/40 - Chopin - Variations for Flute/Piano - listener
523/41 - ? -
524/42 - ? -
525/43 - ? -
526/44 - Dun - Snow in June - Maciek
537/45 - Newman - 20th Century Fox Fanfare - Sfz
538/46 - Williams Close Encounters Suite - Maciek
539/47 - Williams - Olympic Fanfare - Sfz
540/48 - ? -
541/49 - ? -
542/50 - Williams - Superman March - Sfz
543/51 - Rzewski - TBUWNBD - amw
544/52 - Rzewski - Rubinstein in Berlin - Maciek
545/53 - Lang (arr) - Born To Be Wild - Maciek
546/54 - ? -
547/55 - ? -
548/56 - Chopin - Fugue - Sfz

Set by Maciek
141 - Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin - EigenUser
142 - ? -
143 - Tchaikovsky - PC 1 - Luke
144 - ? -
145 - Mozart - Don Giovanni - Luke
146 - Saint-Saens - PC2 - Luke
147 - ? -
148 - Saint-Saens - Danse Macabre - Luke
149 - Gessner - Charlie Brown's Kite - Luke
150 - Kahn/Donaldson - My Baby Just Cares For Me - Luke
151 - ? -
152 - Szymanowksi - VC1 - Luke
153 - Sikorski - Zerstreutes Hinausschauen - Luke
154 - ?-
155 - Sikorski - Adventures of Sindbad the Sailor - Luke
156 - Sikorski - Music from Afar - Luke
157 - Sikorski - Pejzaz zimowy - Luke
158 - Sikorski - Diaphony - Luke
159 - Lang - Cheating, Lying, Stealing - Luke

[amw]

543/51 is from Rzewski's The People United Shall Never Be Defeated! I think

[Luke]

It is! I love that 'plucking fruit' image! Which means the other non-Williams one in that set of 7 are all by Rzewski...get guessing!

[Maciek]

Eh, left the "Rubinstein in Berlin" score open, but went to feed the cat, and see now that amw also noticed it was Rzewski.

[Maciek]

Rubinstein is no. 52, of course, but I have to run now, so I'll leave the others to others.