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Baz
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« Reply #540 on: 15:37:29, 16-02-2008 »
Quote from: Sydney Grew on 15:13:05, 16-02-2008
Quote from: Baz on 14:38:35, 16-02-2008
Quote from: Sydney Grew on 14:29:13, 16-02-2008
. . . Bach's D minor Prelude and Fugue BWV 539.

And no doubt you could also tell me from which work it is transcribed?

Not without looking in the book . . . where we find "adapted from violin sonata BWV 1001" (the Sonata number 1 in G minor that is). But now you mention it a dim recollection of attempting it on our youthful fiddle does indeed arise! Quadruple stops in places - very forced artificial and ugly - there is too much compromise in all those things for solo violin and cello is not there?


Well you are certainly correct with the piece - but not necessarily so with the description.

If you had tried it on an appropriate instrument (having the appropriate playing technique) and using a curved bow, you would have found the stoppings and positions an absolute doddle!

Here it is using a curved bow...

http://rapidshare.com/files/92355990/Bach_G_Minor_Sonata_BWV_1001__2_.mp3

IRON
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« Reply #541 on: 15:42:03, 16-02-2008 »
Quote from: Il Grande Inquisitor on 14:23:17, 16-02-2008
A little clue towards Puzzle 80 - the composer is usually associated with the operatic repertory...

You'd have to be a bit of a wally not to spot him... Wink
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« Reply #542 on: 16:27:14, 16-02-2008 »
Oh b_____ h___!!! I can't believe the number of answers IGI has pipped me to today! Angry
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« Reply #543 on: 16:30:22, 16-02-2008 »
Quote from: opilec on 16:27:14, 16-02-2008
Oh b_____ h___!!! I can't believe the number of answers IGI has pipped me to today! Angry

Especially the Janacek, I expect! I wonder which recording Baz used? Perhaps you can earn so bonus points for a correct identification?!
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« Reply #544 on: 16:33:49, 16-02-2008 »
So 80 was composed by Catalani, then? I can find three non-operatic works by him on the internet but I've never heard any of them.  Undecided
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« Reply #545 on: 16:35:44, 16-02-2008 »
Quote from: Tony Watson on 16:33:49, 16-02-2008
So 80 was composed by Catalani, then? I can find three non-operatic works by him on the internet but I've never heard any of them.  Undecided

You'll be needing to spend some time thinking about it then, Tony.  Wink
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« Reply #546 on: 16:39:32, 16-02-2008 »
Reckon your Beethoven guess is a shooin, IGI. How many's that you've got today?  Shocked  Tongue
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« Reply #547 on: 16:44:53, 16-02-2008 »
That's six for today, I think! I've been a bit lucky with some of the Bach...



Now, Mr Grew's initial thoughts about No.93 could well be worth pursuing... Wink
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« Reply #548 on: 16:47:58, 16-02-2008 »
Quote from: Il Grande Inquisitor on 16:30:22, 16-02-2008
Quote from: opilec on 16:27:14, 16-02-2008
Oh b_____ h___!!! I can't believe the number of answers IGI has pipped me to today! Angry

Especially the Janacek, I expect! I wonder which recording Baz used? Perhaps you can earn so bonus points for a correct identification?!


I don't just listen to Janacek, IGI! Tongue

And I don't just spend all my time on these boards! Wink
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« Reply #549 on: 18:56:48, 16-02-2008 »
Quote from: Daniel on 18:41:26, 16-02-2008
IGI,

As no-one else has responded to your thoughtful clues may I hazard the following punt for no.80 - Contemplazione by Catalani.

As recorded here by Maestro Muti and the La Scala Phil...



It really is a delicious wallow!
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« Reply #550 on: 20:16:43, 16-02-2008 »
No.101 sounds very much like Delius....just not any Delius I can recall!!
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« Reply #551 on: 20:28:23, 16-02-2008 »
Quote from: Il Grande Inquisitor on 20:16:43, 16-02-2008
No.101 sounds very much like Delius....just not any Delius I can recall!!

Interesting - especially because although it is not actually BY Delius there is a very significant Delius connection.

IRON
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« Reply #552 on: 07:36:45, 17-02-2008 »
Puzzle 89 - a clue:

Although it sounds (to me anyway) 'Schumannesque', it was composed by somebody who was not born until 8 years after the death of Schumann.

Baz
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« Reply #553 on: 08:11:05, 17-02-2008 »
Quote from: Baz on 07:36:45, 17-02-2008
Puzzle 89 - a clue:

Although it sounds (to me anyway) 'Schumannesque', it was composed by somebody who was not born until 8 years after the death of Schumann.

Schumannesque to us too.

A reminder to Madame A that her puzzle 79 will expire later to-day. If she wants to have her bonus points now is the time to issue some strong hints!

The members' points table this time shows some quite spectacular rises does it not!

79 sounds like Brahms but is not;
85 sounds like Rachmannineff but is probably not;
89 as stated above sounds like Schumann but is we now presume by an Englishman;
93 we still think is Rachmannineff but still don't know what;
100 sounded like a Russian not of the first rank - perhaps Glezzooneff - but we expect Mr. Opilec is right;
102 may turn out to be a little more difficult than most of ours have in the past been; on the other hand it does seem to contain a nice clarinet part . . .

Is it not interesting that the period between 1880 and 1908 is the most popular among members?
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Baz
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« Reply #554 on: 08:21:32, 17-02-2008 »
I wonder what reason there could logically be for presuming the composer of 89 to be English? It is highy unlikely since he was born in Munich and died in Garmisch (Upper Bavaria). There does not seem to be much 'Englishness' about the piano writing either.

Baz
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