The Clip Quiz - Violin Concertos

[m_gigena]

That would be fantastic. Is the format mp3? I am not that familiar with converting files into other formats so mp3 would be appreciated.
And it looks like jut the tough ones are left, he? Is any 20th century left to discover? (The music from the time before I don't know).

I'm sorry... I completely forgot that, I'm uploading it right now. And in a few hours, when I come back, I'll post the rapidshare links. (I'm in my cyclist outfit right now, about to go to the mountains).

As for the hints, I'll drop them in the afternoon.

I spent Saturday listening to both Szymanovksi concertos, both Prokofiev, Bernsteins Serenade (lovely work), Khatchaturian and Glazunov and I can swear that some of these must be here, but to place them exactly is VERY hard. Khatchaturian is here I swear.....somewhere.

[The new erato]

30 - Glazunov.....?

[m_gigena]

Here's the Rapidshare link
http://rapidshare.com/files/85172037/Complete.rar

[m_gigena]

30 - Glazunov.....?

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(on 30) [/i]Born in 1886, the composer is famous for his many song cycles (more than 300 hundred lieder he wrote). The concerto comes from his first stage, when he embraced tonality. After listening to the music of Les Six he shifted to serialism. He also composed a horn concerto, and a cello concerto.

A swiss composer who studied with Reger in Leipzig. Later on, when degenerating into more... modern stuff he became a great admirer of Alban Berg.
During the twenties he wrote his most famous opera: one about a fierce Amazon Queen.

[violinconcerto]

Born in 1886, the composer is famous for his many song cycles (more than 300 hundred lieder he wrote). The concerto comes from his first stage, when he embraced tonality. After listening to the music of Les Six he shifted to serialism. He also composed a horn concerto, and a cello concerto.

A swiss composer who studied with Reger in Leipzig. Later on, when degenerating into more... modern stuff he became a great admirer of Alban Berg.
During the twenties he wrote his most famous opera: one about a fierce Amazon Queen.

Othmar Schoeck.

[violinconcerto]

Thanks for uploading the file to rapidshare. I downloaded it, but received a efw-file, not a rar one as suggested on the website. My computer could not do anything with that, so I think I have to quit this game before I already started. Thanks anyway for your help!

[The new erato]

A swiss composer who studied with Reger in Leipzig. Later on, when degenerating into more... modern stuff he became a great admirer of Alban Berg.
During the twenties he wrote his most famous opera: one about a fierce Amazon Queen.



Othmar Schoeck.

You beat me to it (I'm at work). I have the Schoeck on an old Swiss LP which I probably haven't played for 25 years....

A quite beautiful concerto the Glazunov, but its thematic material is kind of unmemorable and I find it kind of hard to place here, even though I listened to it a couple of times (Julia Fischers beatiful PetaTone recording of it made the listening very enjoyable).

[m_gigena]

Thanks for uploading the file to rapidshare. I downloaded it, but received a efw-file, not a rar one as suggested on the website. My computer could not do anything with that, so I think I have to quit this game before I already started. Thanks anyway for your help!

It should be a 17574 KB file. Did you check what happens if you change the extension to .rar?

[Maciek]

Don't worry, there could be other Lalo work to be discovered. 

This will sound like a really lame excuse but I really have very little free time this week. (Not to mention the fact that I'm a violin concerto ignoramus. )

But I did find a bit of time yesterday for Lipinski:

Here's his Violin Concerto No. 2 "Military Concerto" on mediafire.
1st mvt
2nd mvt
3rd mvt

And here is a string orchestra transcription of his Caprice in E Minor:
http://www.mediafire.com/?7esmwmblinj

[m_gigena]

Here's his Violin Concerto No. 2 "Military Concerto" on mediafire.

Thanks for that!

[MichaelRabin]

Is any 20th century left to discover? (The music from the time before I don't know).

There is a Gavin Bryars VC (from after year 2000) lurking around in the world.

[violinconcerto]

There is a Gavin Bryars VC (from after year 2000) lurking around in the world.

Do you mean "The bulls of Bashan" from 2000? I have that recording (see at www.violinconcerto.de), or is there a new one?

[m_gigena]

01 - A russian guy to whom gambling and drinking gave a short life. He learned from Rimsky-Korsakov and later taught Rachmaninov and Scriabin in Moscow.

02 - His lineage climbs to Vieuxtemps and De Beriot (It's clear if you can listen to the whole work). He was a friend of Stenhammar, with whom he tried to invigorate the music of Berwald.
       A protégé of Menuhin recorded his third concerto during the seventies.

04 - He played the viola in Adolf Busch's Quartet for three years. He was also appointed as conductor of a Berlin orchestra.
       Despite living in the 20th century he never abandoned tonality, he couldn't get too much into it anyway as he died in a car accident before he could celebrate his 40th birthday.

05 - "Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew. Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary. My conclusion is that I am neither fish nor fowl – a pitiful individual"


08 - A famous german violinist who fled Europe during WWII. He founded several music groups. With his String Quartet he put three Beethoven quartets to the records for the first time.
      A musical family he had: one of his brothers was a cellist, and other was a very famous conductor.

10 - Did you note how Bachian it sounds?

13 - An italian composer, who earned his fame mostly writing comic operas. He lived two thirds of his life in the 20th century. He never abandoned tonality, though.
      Only two recording exist of his four movement Violin concerto (written in 1944), and one of them is actually a low quality radio broadcast (that's the one this clips come from). However, this is the most exciting of the two.

15 - Born near Rio de Janeiro to Portuguese immigrants of gypsy origin, by the age of nine he could play the viola, the violin and the piano very well.
       At the age of 30 he learned about Schoenberg from Hans-Joachim Koellreutter, and followed his footsteps (Schoenberg's, of course).
       Scherchen toured this South American composer's Nonet through Europe. And some of his dodecaphonic works were also played in England.

16 - Did you notice how vital it sounds?

[not edward]

16: Henze: Il vitalino radoppiato. (Great piece, too, & thanks for introducing me to it.)

[Brian]

01 - A russian guy to whom gambling and drinking gave a short life. He learned from Rimsky-Korsakov and later taught Rachmaninov and Scriabin in Moscow.

02 - His lineage climbs to Vieuxtemps and De Beriot (It's clear if you can listen to the whole work). He was a friend of Stenhammar, with whom he tried to invigorate the music of Berwald.
       A protégé of Menuhin recorded his third concerto during the seventies.

Cesar Cui and Tor Aulin? Not that I've ever listened to their music. 

[The new erato]

10 Villa-Lobos
15 Gerhard?   Mozart Camargo Guarnieri

Aulin sounds about right for nr 2 I'd say. I've got it on CD but haven't checked.

Ans I've recently read the quote for nr 5 - but where?  Anton Rubinstein!

[The new erato]

And 8 is Adolf Busch, wasn't aware he was a composer?

[The new erato]

4 - Hugo Gottesmann ?   Emil Bohnke - op 11. Never heard of him before this.....

[m_gigena]

Cesar Cui and Tor Aulin? Not that I've ever listened to their music. 

01 is not Cui. With short life I mean he lived about 45 years.

Aulin sounds about right for nr 2 I'd say. I've got it on CD but haven't checked.

You are both right about Aulin.

[The new erato]

1 - Arenski (A minor op 54)