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Sydney Grew
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« Reply #2985 on: 15:25:44, 12-04-2008 »
Quote from: Baz on 13:40:05, 12-04-2008
Quote from: Sydney Grew on 11:37:02, 12-04-2008
Puzzle 511: we wonder who knows this scene, long ago snaffled from somewhere on the Internet. The sound quality leaves much to be desired and we advise Members to keep the volume low. Most of it is lyrical but at the end, which is where our extract comes from, every one gets very worked up. Here and here.


A guess (only!) - Vaughan-Williams, Symphony No.7 (Sinfonia Antartica)?

That is indeed a long detour in both time and distance and to no avail!

Our eighth and eighteenth words may perhaps be taken as a kind of not particularly useful preliminary hint.
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Sydney Grew
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« Reply #2986 on: 03:09:59, 13-04-2008 »
Here and here is an extract from a recording made in London in 1937: puzzle 512.
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Milly Jones
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« Reply #2987 on: 03:12:31, 13-04-2008 »
I'd love to try these tests, but my antivirus/spyware will never let me access the links and I'm hesitant to switch them off to do them.  Still, interesting to read.
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We pass this way but once.  This is not a rehearsal!
Baz
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« Reply #2988 on: 07:48:02, 13-04-2008 »
Quote from: Sydney Grew on 03:09:59, 13-04-2008
Here and here is an extract from a recording made in London in 1937: puzzle 512.



This is from the opening of Mozart's Piano Concerto in C Minor K491 (just before the piano enters for the first time).
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Sydney Grew
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« Reply #2989 on: 08:34:26, 13-04-2008 »
Quote from: Baz on 07:48:02, 13-04-2008
Quote from: Sydney Grew on 03:09:59, 13-04-2008
Here and here is an extract from a recording made in London in 1937: puzzle 512.

This is from the opening of Mozart's Piano Concerto in C Minor K491 (just before the piano enters for the first time).

Correct! In an instant clever Mr. Iron gains another eight hundred points. The performance of the twenty-fourth concerto was by Edwin Fischer with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Lawrence Collingwood.
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Sydney Grew
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« Reply #2990 on: 13:29:49, 13-04-2008 »
Puzzle 513: here and here. This one should be easy.
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Sydney Grew
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« Reply #2991 on: 13:34:25, 13-04-2008 »
Now a clue or two for puzzle 511: the composer - not Vaughan Williams but a well-known Frenchman by the way - described the work - which lasts about twenty-five minutes - as a "lyric scene." Debussy himself confessed that he found it inspiring and had copied some of the procedures. It is a product of the eighteen-eighties.
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Baz
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« Reply #2992 on: 13:56:23, 13-04-2008 »
Quote from: Sydney Grew on 13:29:49, 13-04-2008
Puzzle 513: here and here. This one should be easy.


Although this theme is very familiar (from my youth, spent sometimes listening to 'Light' music), I can only hazzard a guess:

Is it Vivien Ellis's Coronation Scot?
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Sydney Grew
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« Reply #2993 on: 15:21:00, 13-04-2008 »
Quote from: Baz on 13:56:23, 13-04-2008
Quote from: Sydney Grew on 13:29:49, 13-04-2008
Puzzle 513: here and here. This one should be easy.

Although this theme is very familiar (from my youth, spent sometimes listening to 'Light' music), I can only hazzard a guess: Is it Vivien Ellis's Coronation Scot?

Correct again! His name was actually Vivian but we will not quibble. His mother studied the violin with Ysaÿe you know, and he studied the piano with Myra Hess. Another eight hundred points to Member Iron.
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Baz
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« Reply #2994 on: 15:27:05, 13-04-2008 »
Quote from: Sydney Grew on 15:21:00, 13-04-2008
Quote from: Baz on 13:56:23, 13-04-2008
Quote from: Sydney Grew on 13:29:49, 13-04-2008
Puzzle 513: here and here. This one should be easy.

Although this theme is very familiar (from my youth, spent sometimes listening to 'Light' music), I can only hazzard a guess: Is it Vivien Ellis's Coronation Scot?

Correct again! His name was actually Vivian but we will not quibble. His mother studied the violin with Ysaÿe you know, and he studied the piano with Myra Hess. Another eight hundred points to Member Iron.


Thank you Mr Grew - not least for sparing me the embarrassment of pointing out my concurrent misspelling of 'hazard'! But for those of us who happen to be of the correct vintage, "The Dukes..." had their effect...

...as also did the glorious Age of Steam (sadly missed by our younger colleagues). SO...

...here is a lovely audio-visual presentation of Ellis's Coronation Scot to bring tears to the eyes of some of us (who care!)...

CLICK HERE

Baz
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Tony Watson
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« Reply #2995 on: 15:58:38, 13-04-2008 »
I think Puzzle 510 has expired now and it’s interesting that we’ve just had one (513) about a train. 510 was Bahn Frei! (Line Clear) by Eduard Strauss.

Another puzzle:

Puzzle 514
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Baz
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« Reply #2996 on: 16:01:41, 13-04-2008 »
Quote from: Sydney Grew on 13:34:25, 13-04-2008
Now a clue or two for puzzle 511: the composer - not Vaughan Williams but a well-known Frenchman by the way - described the work - which lasts about twenty-five minutes - as a "lyric scene." Debussy himself confessed that he found it inspiring and had copied some of the procedures. It is a product of the eighteen-eighties.


Well 511 then clearly has to be Berlioz: Cleopatre. (And if it is, I rightly hang my head in shame for having suggested RVW!)
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Tony Watson
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« Reply #2997 on: 16:02:21, 13-04-2008 »
And another:

Puzzle 515
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richard barrett
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« Reply #2998 on: 16:09:20, 13-04-2008 »
Quote from: Baz on 16:01:41, 13-04-2008
Quote from: Sydney Grew on 13:34:25, 13-04-2008
Now a clue or two for puzzle 511: the composer - not Vaughan Williams but a well-known Frenchman by the way - described the work - which lasts about twenty-five minutes - as a "lyric scene." Debussy himself confessed that he found it inspiring and had copied some of the procedures. It is a product of the eighteen-eighties.


Well 511 then clearly has to be Berlioz: Cleopatre. (And if it is, I rightly hang my head in shame for having suggested RVW!)
I don't think Berlioz wrote anything in the 1880s. He certainly wrote Cléopatre in 1829 for the Prix de Rome.
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Baz
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« Reply #2999 on: 16:10:57, 13-04-2008 »
Quote from: Tony Watson on 15:58:38, 13-04-2008
I think Puzzle 510 has expired now and it’s interesting that we’ve just had one (513) about a train. 510 was Bahn Frei! (Line Clear) by Eduard Strauss.

Another puzzle:

Puzzle 514

Could this be Spohr: Nonet Op. 31?
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