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« Reply #345 on: 19:44:02, 06-02-2008 » |
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It sounds like the slow movement of a chamber work by Mendelssohn, or even Schubert. But with clarinet? Anyway, IGI, are you suggesting this is from an opera?!
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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
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« Reply #346 on: 20:09:03, 06-02-2008 » |
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Sounds like late Beethoven to me, except that little harmonic shift near the start might be a bit too modern for him...which also made me think of Schubert, Mendelssohn, or even Schumann or Brahms. I also think it's for Piano, Clarinet and Viola (or possibly Cello) and it's in A major. And I can't think of an opera connection at all.
Well, that's it. I'm officially stumped!
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« Reply #347 on: 20:40:36, 06-02-2008 » |
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I can't hear a stringed instrument in the puzzle  If it's a trio it would most unfair to exclude it in the extract, IGI wouldn't fall to such depths.... |
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« Reply #348 on: 20:43:11, 06-02-2008 » |
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Well it sounds to me like there's quiet pizzicato...
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« Reply #349 on: 21:04:41, 06-02-2008 » |
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If it's a trio it would most unfair to exclude it in the extract, IGI wouldn't fall to such depths....
Going down...  No, it's not a trio...it's not a chamber piece at all!  |
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« Reply #350 on: 21:12:05, 06-02-2008 » |
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IGI, if it is Opera then I would not know it, but is it Don Giovanni by Mozart? Last wild stab?
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #351 on: 21:28:25, 06-02-2008 » |
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Not Don Giovanni, but you're getting warmer in an interesting way! Here is a little bit more, if only to prove the presence of an orchestra! rapidshare |
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« Reply #352 on: 21:53:05, 06-02-2008 » |
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This sounds very French to me, Baz, but I can't pin it down to any of the usual suspects. (mmm, possibility of it being English too!) |
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« Reply #354 on: 00:05:37, 07-02-2008 » |
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That's an answer to C Dish's harpsichord one. Number 40.
Blimey, that took you long enough. There are quite a few pieces by other composers similar to (ie. emulating) it, although to my knowledge none of these is by Martin Butler (though I may be wrong about that). ...yes, it did indeed take us long enough but we note that we were never the less the first to post the solution despite our introduction to this repertoire having been Davitt Moroney's disc of hommages à Couperin from which we strongly suspect Member Dish to have taken his snatch. The selfsame disc does indeed include an emulatory work entitled Les Idées heureuses by Michel Corrette although we doubt that to have been the sole subject of Member Barrett's observation. |
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« Reply #355 on: 00:39:01, 07-02-2008 » |
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we doubt that to have been the sole subject of Member Barrett's observation No, he was clearly alluding to Tom Ass Adès's peared transcriptions of Couperin's Les baricades mistérieuses and Graham 'Suggs' MacPherson's La crise cardiaque. |
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« Reply #356 on: 07:33:59, 07-02-2008 » |
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This sounds very French to me, Baz, but I can't pin it down to any of the usual suspects. (mmm, possibility of it being English too!)PUZZLE 32 - SOLUTION The extract was from Korngold's Piano Quintet Op. 15 (1921), Movt 3 Baz |
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« Reply #357 on: 07:46:22, 07-02-2008 » |
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Well, the Korngold stumped me, Baz....it's a new work to me and yet it sounded so familiar! Certainly one for my wishlist, I think. In the meantime, a final clue towards Puzzle 35 before I head off to work. It's Russian. Bear in mind Anty's last wild stab...  |
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« Reply #358 on: 08:18:31, 07-02-2008 » |
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we doubt that to have been the sole subject of Member Barrett's observation No, he was clearly alluding to Tom Ass Adès's peared transcriptions of Couperin's Les baricades mistérieuses and Graham 'Suggs' MacPherson's La crise cardiaque. Oh dear. On the other hand I would suspect the homage in the case of Les baricades mistérieuses to have been to Les Baricades Mistérieuses from the sixième Ordre rather than to Les Idées heureuses from the deuxième, non ? |
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« Reply #359 on: 13:12:37, 07-02-2008 » |
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As it has remained unsolved for five days now, we can reveal that Puzzle 25 is the Prelude in Act III of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata. "Surprise" is right! Do you think it was intentionally written as a kind of parody? PUZZLE 32 - SOLUTION
The extract was from Korngold's Piano Quintet Op. 15 (1921), Movt 3 We had Mr. Baziron's Korngold down as Haydn Wood, Lennox Berkeley, or one of those people. We must have heard the work before but it is evidently not distinguished by memorability. His new number 53 on the other hand with its deliberate anti-melody and crude vulgar rhythms is almost certainly Shostacowitch all over again. What a pity there is no gambling on this message-board! |
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