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« Reply #1920 on: 17:30:33, 28-05-2007 »
Delius: Appalachia?
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« Reply #1921 on: 17:33:24, 28-05-2007 »
Yes! Well done!

Hérodiade - Massenet
Israel in Egypt - Handel
Appalachia - Delius
Wellington’s Victory - Beethoven
Asrael - Suk
Tannhäuser - Wagner
Hamlet - Liszt
Alzira - Verdi

As well as being a well known Victorian choral piece by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Hiawatha is a little known tone poem by Delius. Has anyone ever heard it?
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« Reply #1922 on: 17:36:38, 28-05-2007 »
How did you get that, Tony? Well done! I don't know either HIAWATHA work: any CD recommendations?

An easy quartet with an odd one out:

Faure
Wagner
Puccini
Flotow
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« Reply #1923 on: 17:43:08, 28-05-2007 »
The Coleridge-Taylor has been quite out of fashion, but there's a fairly recent recording with a young Bryn Terfel:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Coleridge-Taylor-Hiawatha-Symphonic-Variations-African/dp/B0000759YE/ref=pd_bowtega_1/202-5913406-5145461?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1180370441&sr=1-1

The early Delius tone poem was unpublished, but there's a 10 minute excerpt available here along with some interesting info about the piece:
http://thompsonian.info/hiawatha.html
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« Reply #1924 on: 17:51:29, 28-05-2007 »
An early stab

Flotow - Martha? (There's not a lot of Flotow to choose from!)
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde
Puccini - La fanciulla del West
Fauré - Pelléas et Mélisande
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« Reply #1925 on: 18:05:10, 28-05-2007 »
MARTHA is correct. There are two Wagners to choose from (one of them early, the other middle). The Faure isn't orchestral. The Puccini is more well-known and earlier than FANCIULLA.
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« Reply #1926 on: 18:11:57, 28-05-2007 »
Here's a second odd one out: Britten.
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« Reply #1927 on: 18:12:49, 28-05-2007 »
Is it something to do with spinning wheels?

Wagner - Flying Dutchman
Flotow - Martha
Fauré - Pelléas et Mélisande
Puccini – La Bohème
Britten - Peter Grimes

with Mimi in Bohème being the odd one out - she doesn't spin but she embroiders, as does Ellen Orford?
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« Reply #1928 on: 18:17:28, 28-05-2007 »
Correct connection! (The Faure is an opera, though.) Can you mention spinners in another Wagner?
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« Reply #1929 on: 18:22:29, 28-05-2007 »
Must be Pénélope - she is weaving a shroud for the father of Ulysse.

Aren't the Norns spinning in Götterdämmerung?
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« Reply #1930 on: 18:23:39, 28-05-2007 »
Both are correct  Smiley
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« Reply #1931 on: 18:25:25, 28-05-2007 »
I don't know Flotow's Martha at all. Is it worth hearing?

I don't know Cilea's L'Arlesiana either (discussed on the Opera Quiz) but have ordered a copy this afternoon!
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« Reply #1932 on: 18:30:46, 28-05-2007 »
MARTHA and L'ARLESIANA are amongst my little-known favourites. The MARTHA I have is with Popp and Jerusalem, and the ARELSIANA is a slightly cut mono recording on Cetra with Tagliavini (there used to be a stereo EMI version which unfortunately is now out of print).
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« Reply #1933 on: 18:33:34, 28-05-2007 »
It's the Tagliavini recording on Cetra I've ordered - from a German source on eBay. There are two quite recent live recordings on Accord and Bongiovanni, but neither has had a great write-up anywhere I could find.

Try these four. I thought this one might be tricky, but then again…

Meyerbeer
Vivaldi
Vaughan Williams
Milhaud
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« Reply #1934 on: 18:43:48, 28-05-2007 »
Explorers?

Meyerbeer: L'africaine (Vasco da Gama)
Milhaud: Christophe Colomb
Vivaldi: ?
Vaughan Williams: ?

I guess that's wrong, though!
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