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Only a half-joking suggestion really! I wouldn't want to put people off submitting their suggestions, although those for Puzzle 25 would have helped my cause enormously and there are still four days to go!  IGI, you are a quiz God. And no-one is going to get anywhere close to you, I'll bet. But this begs a question: what's the end game here? When is a winner going to be declared? And what punishment awaits the abyssmals??  |
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IGI, you are a quiz God. And no-one is going to get anywhere close to you, I'll bet. But this begs a question: what's the end game here? When is a winner going to be declared? And what punishment awaits the abyssmals?? The end game? World domination, of course!! Or when Richard climbs off the foot of the table, perhaps! Grrrrr ...
Can't think of any other silly, vapid, virtuoso, all-flash-little-substance, show-off-y violinist-composers. Veracini would be too early. Rossini didn't write a violin concerto, did he? Aaargh!
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If this competition serves any purpose beyond being a bit of fun, it is in introducing us to compositions we'd hitherto have passed over or forgotten. Yes we too have thanks to Mr. Baziron already found that in the case of the Byrd Mass. What's the end game here? When is a winner going to be declared? The system permits of multiple winners: one to a thousand (already won by Mr. Inquisitor); one to ten thousand; one to fifty thousand; one to a hundred thousand; one to a million (quite soon now), and so on. |
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« Reply #228 on: 13:06:12, 02-02-2008 » |
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Here is Puzzle 34This should be easy...... Tommo It is in fact Bridge's String Sextet and what a marvellously haunting and beautiful slow movement it has! It is much more difficult to write an effective slow movement than a fast do not Members think? It is curious we have often thought that Bridge - such a first-rate composer on the whole - is far less often played than his pupil Britten whose works do not affect us at all! And has it never struck you as curious that the composers whose works affect you (and perhaps even more strikingly those whose do not) are often at variance with the tastes of many others on this board, Sydney? |
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« Reply #229 on: 13:18:38, 02-02-2008 » |
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Here is Puzzle 34This should be easy...... Tommo Easy for Syd! Tommo, I confess I don't know any of Bridge's chamber music (I only know one or two of his orchestral pieces, such as The Sea, which is really fantastic). That Sextet clip sounds beautiful...which recording would you recommend? |
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[...] has it never struck you as curious that the composers whose works affect you (and perhaps even more strikingly those whose do not) are often at variance with the tastes of many others on this board [...] ? It does not bother us too much. Perhaps the Member is referring to THIS sort of thing (a book by Mr. J. McWhorter entitled " Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care"). Has any one read it? Is it any good? |
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« Reply #231 on: 13:25:45, 02-02-2008 » |
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I'm out and about at the mo, and can't check who my Bridge recording is by. I only have the one, but it is rather good. I'll let you know later.
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« Reply #232 on: 13:29:14, 02-02-2008 » |
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IGI, I'll access my Bridge and let you know what I have - but take note - Rugby kicks off shortly. Let us get our priorities right! Edit: I have String Quartets 2 & 4 and Phantasy Piano Quartet (Gramophones disc of the month some while back) by Maggini Quartet which is lovely. (Naxos) It may take a while to locate others due to cds being in a muddle. |
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« Reply #233 on: 13:50:27, 02-02-2008 » |
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Chafers, is the title of Puzzle 21 and anagram of "inert fig here"? That's all I can think of! (I'm rubbish at anagrams, but the Internet Anagram Server told me there were at least 1500 anagrams of that in English alone!!) (including either finger, which sounds like a title, a bit...)
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« Reply #234 on: 19:43:21, 02-02-2008 » |
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Here is Puzzle 34This should be easy...... Tommo Easy for Syd! Tommo, I confess I don't know any of Bridge's chamber music (I only know one or two of his orchestral pieces, such as The Sea, which is really fantastic). That Sextet clip sounds beautiful...which recording would you recommend? The only one I know, which I love, is the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble on Chandos from 1997. With a very good Goosens Phantasy Sextet and Concertino too Go on, spoil yersel' Tommo |
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« Reply #235 on: 22:50:36, 02-02-2008 » |
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The problem with rapidshare (or at least one of them) is that I have used up my free downloads + have to wait 94 minutes for the next . . .
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I don't know what it is, but my initial impression is of a great bodaciousness and I am looking forward very much to it's titular disrobement. CD, I can't listen to your ones as the sound keeps stopping and starting, it's like listening to it on a bad phone line. |
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« Reply #237 on: 08:52:44, 03-02-2008 » |
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I've been trying to decide whether Puzzle 39 is the voice of Cathy Berberian or not. The very beginning of the extract sounds remarkably like her, but there's something a bit too smooth about the voice, and I'm missing the characteristic Berberian burr on her 'r's. Whoever it is, it's a pretty remarkable voice.
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Rugby kicks off shortly. Let us get our priorities right! And they deserved the win Ant !!  A |
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« Reply #239 on: 09:40:31, 03-02-2008 » |
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Only one tentative poke re Puzzle 25, which has just under two days left to run: 22: Long clarinet solo with a piano entry at the end - no idea even of the composer's nationality, but an Englishman is a possibility.
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