Name that piece! The game

[DavidW]

Oh I see, I need a few more box sets.  Heck I should just buy the edition!

[DavidW]

Hey Scarpia is your clip ready?  I hope it's not as hard as the Gurnian deception!

[Scarpia]

I think this one will be interesting. 

http://www.4shared.com/audio/d7KHcLOh/snip.html?

(Hopefully that link will work.)  The primary task is the guess the composer (and composition).  For extra credit, identify the orchestra (and conductor).

I will not give any clues, except that this is by a composer whose name is occasionally mentioned on this board.  As always, answers that could have been right are perhaps more interesting than answers that are right.

[mc ukrneal]

I think this one will be interesting. 

http://www.4shared.com/audio/d7KHcLOh/snip.html?

(Hopefully that link will work.)  The primary task is the guess the composer (and composition).  For extra credit, identify the orchestra (and conductor).

I will not give any clues, except that this is by a composer whose name is occasionally mentioned on this board.  As always, answers that could have been right are perhaps more interesting than answers that are right.

Interesting. I don't know this one either (I'm like 0 for 57 so far  ). Stylistically, it reminds me of both Ravel and Stravinsky. I don't think it is Ravel for sure. I suppose Stravinsky is possible. Beyond that, not really sure.

[Drasko]

(Hopefully that link will work.)  The primary task is the guess the composer (and composition).  For extra credit, identify the orchestra (and conductor).

I think you are way to enthusiastic about anyone directly guessing orchestra and conductor on 50 sec clip. If you remember 'mystery orchestra' game clips were much longer, pieces known and still there were far more misses than hits.

As for the piece, sound very interesting but I don't recognize it, wild guess - Roussel. 

[Sergeant Rock]

Well, I want to give everyone a chance at it before puking out the answer, so maybe a broader clue would be in order.

For all of you who know me,
the answer must be one of three.

For those of you who know me well
this hero sent a man to hell.

I'd put the clues together ("surprise" "classic diversion" plus the above riddle....it had to be one of the three great classical composers I thought: Hadyn Mozart or Beethoven. Mozart was the only one who sent a man to hell) but the answer seemed nonsensical. How could that music possibly be Mozart? The clip sounds nothing like him. I couldn't think of any modern take on Mozart (like Zender's Winterreise or Bach orchestrations).  I was completely stumped. I went to bed in a grumpy mood 

Sarge

[Gurn Blanston]

I'd put the clues together ("surprise" "classic diversion" plus the above riddle....it had to be one of the three great classical composers I thought: Hadyn Mozart or Beethoven. Mozart was the only one who sent a man to hell) but the answer seemed nonsensical. How could that music possibly be Mozart? The clip sounds nothing like him. I couldn't think of any modern take on Mozart (like Zender's Winterreise or Bach orchestrations).  I was completely stumped. I went to bed in a grumpy mood 

Sarge

Better now, though.

Scarps,
No surprise, you got me stumped. I will work around it for a while though.

[Scarpia]

Interesting. I don't know this one either (I'm like 0 for 57 so far  ). Stylistically, it reminds me of both Ravel and Stravinsky. I don't think it is Ravel for sure. I suppose Stravinsky is possible. Beyond that, not really sure.

Neither of those two.

[Scarpia]

I think you are way to enthusiastic about anyone directly guessing orchestra and conductor on 50 sec clip. If you remember 'mystery orchestra' game clips were much longer, pieces known and still there were far more misses than hits.

As for the piece, sound very interesting but I don't recognize it, wild guess - Roussel.

I agree it sounds a bit like Roussel, but not him.

I agree with you that there is insufficient information to identify the orchestra, but it is still fun to guess.

[klingsor]

I will guess Rodion Shchedrin

[Scarpia]

I will guess Rodion Shchedrin

Interesting, I'll have to look up this Shchedrin, if he sounds like my mystery track.   

[DavidW]

I thought of Varese since it sounds wild Stravinskian without being Stravinsky... but Varese isn't quite that conservative.  Boy this is a fun one!

[Sergeant Rock]

I'm not consciously familiar with it either. I do like it. Very interesting. But my head's still hurting from the Mozart so I haven't put much thought intp solving it yet. And now it's time to make dinner (food is always interrupting these games  )

Sarge

[DavidW]

I'm not consciously familiar with it either. I do like it. Very interesting. But my head's still hurting from the Mozart so I haven't put much thought intp solving it yet. And now it's time to make dinner (food is always interrupting these games  )

Sarge

Yeah given how the Mozart went, this is probably Telemann!

[Opus106]

But my head's still hurting from the Mozart...

The opening of that excerpt has been playing itself to death inside my head all day (along with the thought that it had been (mis-)attributed to Mozart all this time).

[mc ukrneal]

I'm not consciously familiar with it either. I do like it. Very interesting. But my head's still hurting from the Mozart so I haven't put much thought intp solving it yet. And now it's time to make dinner (food is always interrupting these games  )

Sarge

Oh. Yum!! What are you having? Chicken here (already cooking) in a red (BBQ like) sauce. Probably with a shiraz.

[Sergeant Rock]

Oh. Yum!! What are you having? Chicken here (already cooking) in a red (BBQ like) sauce. Probably with a shiraz.

I'm going to whip up my famous Italian/Indian fusion spaghetti 

Sarge

[mc ukrneal]

I'm going to whip up my famous Italian/Indian fusion spaghetti 

Sarge

Sweet! I cook Indian at home all the time (from scratch), and what you wrote sounds awesome!

[klingsor]

Interesting, I'll have to look up this Shchedrin, if he sounds like my mystery track.   

Shchedrin was one of those composers I discovered as a filler on a CD with a piece I actually wanted, and Schedrin's ended up being better. Give him a try

[Scarpia]

Yeah given how the Mozart went, this is probably Telemann!

Not Telemann, but close (just kidding).