|
autoharp
|
 |
« Reply #2700 on: 12:14:22, 24-03-2008 » |
|
452 - Rachmaninov 1st piano concerto?
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Sydney Grew
Guest
|
|
« Reply #2701 on: 12:26:07, 24-03-2008 » |
|
452 - Rachmaninov 1st piano concerto? Correct Mr. Autoharp! (We managed to trick the Inquisitor for once.) |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Il Grande Inquisitor
|
|
« Reply #2702 on: 13:11:30, 24-03-2008 » |
|
Another clue for #430: This work was written in 1955 by a composer from a region of Europe that has occasioned a hefty number of well-known nationalist and folkloric works. This is not one of them. Is No.430 Martinů's Gilgameš ( The Epic of Gilgamesh)? |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
|
|
|
|
Evan Johnson
|
|
« Reply #2703 on: 13:18:00, 24-03-2008 » |
|
Another clue for #430: This work was written in 1955 by a composer from a region of Europe that has occasioned a hefty number of well-known nationalist and folkloric works. This is not one of them. Is No.430 Martinů's Gilgameš ( The Epic of Gilgamesh)? Congratulations Mr. Inquisitor. A fascinating but uneven work, with some truly inspired moments (including, in my estimation, the snatch in question) but that fails at times to hold up its hour-long duration. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Il Grande Inquisitor
|
|
« Reply #2704 on: 13:24:04, 24-03-2008 » |
|
Hurrah! I must admit that your clue yesterday about a language deader than Latin finally struck home just now as I considered Janáček's Glagolitic Mass, but found that this was too early. It was then I remembered Martinů! Not a work I know; I do recall the Field Mass being given at the Proms a couple of seasons ago, but isn't Gilgamesh supposed to have a better-known reputation? One to listen out for. The piano at 0:32 and the subsequent upward 'flourish' should have been a giveaway, I suppose.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
|
|
|
|
Tony Watson
Guest
|
|
« Reply #2705 on: 13:56:51, 24-03-2008 » |
|
Time for a clue for all the above. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Il Grande Inquisitor
|
|
« Reply #2706 on: 14:08:08, 24-03-2008 » |
|
I spent some time searching for 'light music' with an eastern/Egyptian link yesterday and can only come up with Ketèlbey's In the Mystic Land of Egypt, which is my doubtful suggestion for No.440
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
|
|
|
|
Il Grande Inquisitor
|
|
« Reply #2707 on: 14:18:41, 24-03-2008 » |
|
441 is from Prokofiev's Egyptian Nights, so I shall try Arensky's Egyptian Nights for No.442.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
|
|
|
|
Tony Watson
Guest
|
|
« Reply #2708 on: 14:20:57, 24-03-2008 » |
|
I spent some time searching for 'light music' with an eastern/Egyptian link yesterday and can only come up with Ketèlbey's In the Mystic Land of Egypt, which is my doubtful suggestion for No.440
Doubt not, Mr I, for you are correct. 441 is from Prokofiev's Egyptian Nights, so I shall try Arensky's Egyptian Nights for No.442.
You are also correct about 441 but not 442. Look at the picture and remember I said the puzzle was inscrutable yesterday. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Il Grande Inquisitor
|
|
« Reply #2709 on: 14:27:14, 24-03-2008 » |
|
Mmmmm, I shall have to sphinx carefully about this...
Is 440 Robert Farnon's Sphinx, then?
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
|
|
|
|
Tony Watson
Guest
|
|
« Reply #2710 on: 14:30:30, 24-03-2008 » |
|
Mmmmm, I shall have to sphinx carefully about this...
Is 440 Robert Farnon's Sphinx, then?
No but you're getting very warm. It's one movement from a commemorative work comprising eight short orchestral pieces. 440 is quoted virtually in full. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Tony Watson
Guest
|
|
« Reply #2711 on: 14:32:56, 24-03-2008 » |
|
Some confusion here, Mr Inquisitor. I think you meant 442, not 440, which you've already correctly identified as being by Ketelbey. Anyway, 442 is not by Farnon.
|
|
|
|
« Last Edit: 14:34:59, 24-03-2008 by Tony Watson »
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Il Grande Inquisitor
|
|
« Reply #2712 on: 14:37:38, 24-03-2008 » |
|
Ah, I had not read your response properly, so 'hurrah' for Ketèlbey!!
442 - Pavel Chesnokov's Riddle of the Sphinx?
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
|
|
|
|
Il Grande Inquisitor
|
|
« Reply #2713 on: 14:48:46, 24-03-2008 » |
|
My last answer was absolute rot - 442 is Leonard Bernstein's ' Sphinxes' from his Divertimento for Orchestra, written for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Cunning riddles, Mr Watson!!  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
|
|
|
|
Tony Watson
Guest
|
|
« Reply #2714 on: 14:56:55, 24-03-2008 » |
|
My last answer was absolute rot - 442 is Leonard Bernstein's ' Sphinxes' from his Divertimento for Orchestra, written for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Cunning riddles, Mr Watson!! Correct! Well done.  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
