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It will have been noted that I have corrected a slip in my most recent message on the "Test" thread. Just to emphasise the matter. The work featured in Puzzle 116, and the composer's following work in the same medium, was completed before Bartok's second string quartet, not after, as I originally typed in that message.
[I think I had better go for a run, then return more widely awake than at the moment. I will then prepare two clips of the same short section from a work for you edification. Why two? Well, the fillip to this decision was the recently posted clip from BWV 101, which sounded sufficiently unlike Bach to me, for me to suspected it might have come from the spurious St. Luke Passion. The two examples I will extract demonstrate startlingly different approaches to the score of the target work.]
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« Reply #616 on: 08:53:27, 19-02-2008 » |
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108 = Suk's Serendade for Strings op.6
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« Reply #617 on: 09:02:30, 19-02-2008 » |
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Good one IGI.!!!!
I have to say I discovered the Suk a few years ago when I played in a string chamber orchestra and I love it... I think it is yet another of the lesser known gems around!! Enjoy it tomorrow !
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« Reply #618 on: 09:08:42, 19-02-2008 » |
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I can't use rapidshare Baz  Well try Sendspace then John... What-is-it?Baz You've sucked me in Baz.  Sounds like a baroque-style piece played by a saxophone quartet? |
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« Reply #619 on: 09:12:07, 19-02-2008 » |
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In searching for further information about the work featured in Puzzle 116 I have discovered that it might have been revised three years after the original was completed. However, since the source of that information gets the movements in the wrong order, I feel unable to trust its claim re. the revision. I am surprised that the Portuguese popcorn connection has not done the trick.
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« Reply #620 on: 09:19:48, 19-02-2008 » |
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Another hint for Puzzle 103... it was composed by this man:  and was written in memory of (and dedicated to) his wife who died in 1979. |
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« Reply #621 on: 10:00:28, 19-02-2008 » |
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The solution to Puzzle 103 is that it is the Requiem
In memoriam Maija Kokkonen, by Joonas Kokkonen.
Correct Bryn - the opening of Movt 2 ('Kyrie'). Baz I confess I do not know the work at all, and neither did I recognise the composer in the photograph. However, editing the URL for the source of the photograph did the trick.  I accept the points with dishonour. No dishonour there Bryn - it was all in the clue for those persistent enough to discover it! Baz  |
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« Reply #622 on: 12:58:26, 19-02-2008 » |
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What is the World coming to. First the leader of the Free World, Fidel Castro announces that he will not be putting himself forward for re-election to the post of President of Cuba, and now we get Puzzle 122, which quite clearly contravenes the rules by falling without the scope of Definition 1: Definitions:
1) the "classical repertoire" here means music written between 1500 and 2000, and normally performed in concert halls or churches; "jazz" and "pops" are specifically excluded.
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« Reply #623 on: 13:03:05, 19-02-2008 » |
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Puzzle 122 is We'll Gather Lilacs In The Spring, by Ivor Novello, a pop song, so it should not be here.
[It is from the 'Show', "Perchance To Dream", and the full title is given above.] Hmmm - yes, the Member is right; we did not think that it might have come from a "show" - so we had better subtract 75 from our own points. Mr. Watson will of course nevertheless retain his 350 odd points for his quick identification. Turning to puzzle 102: no one has even nibbled at it yet, so we had better begin giving hints. Here is the first: its composer was a Russian. |
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« Reply #624 on: 13:05:41, 19-02-2008 » |
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123 in not by Stravinsky, IGI. Sounds more like Françaix to me.
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« Reply #625 on: 13:10:33, 19-02-2008 » |
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You didn't miss my guess at 123, did you, Mr Grew?  |
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« Reply #626 on: 14:05:24, 19-02-2008 » |
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Since fellow boarders seem to be having some trouble identifying the works, or even the composers, featured in Puzzles 116, 118 and 120, I had better offer further clues.
116 was the work of someone who wrote completed more works in the genre than did Shostakovich or Beethoven, (unless one includes an arrangement of another work in the latter case, or fiddles the figures to include a movement extracted from one of the completed works).
118 dates from the final decade of the 19th Century.
120 is less well known than the next work the composer wrote for similar forces. One of the ensembles represented in one of the two clips has also recorded the later work.
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« Reply #627 on: 14:49:13, 19-02-2008 » |
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112 still seems to be a problem, I have said the composer was born North of Watford, should I say also ... North of Birmingham ( oxygen masks available for those that need them!) but he spent most of his life out of this country ..in two other places. This medium is not the one that he is best known for.
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« Reply #628 on: 15:43:32, 19-02-2008 » |
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112 still seems to be a problem, I have said the composer was born North of Watford, should I say also ... North of Birmingham ( oxygen masks available for those that need them!) but he spent most of his life out of this country ..in two other places. This medium is not the one that he is best known for.
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Delius, of course. I'd quite forgotten that I had a lovely disc of Tasmin Little and Piers Lane playing these sonatas, so shall listen to it this afternoon. (I assume your disc, A, is the same?) I heard the Sonata No.2 (the one in a single movement) played at a Nash Ensemble concert last year. Thanks for setting this as a quiz snippet...there are some wonderful pieces being posted that have already been added to a wishlist somewhere  |
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« Reply #629 on: 17:02:06, 19-02-2008 » |
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Yes, the same disc IGI. Tasmin ( and Piers Lane) gives the sonatas such a zip and feeling of excitement that wakes me up certainly to the fact that Delius is not all 'wishy washy'!!!!
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