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The Radio 3 Boards > General Chat > The Coffee Bar > Competition: Two- to Sixty-Second Repertoire Test
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Bryn
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« Reply #720 on: 00:36:38, 19-02-2008 »
That is incorrect, John. I have a sneaky suspicion that you know that, and are going for the 20 points as a bonus. Wink
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« Reply #721 on: 00:43:44, 19-02-2008 »

Puzzle 114,

I'd like to suggest it's from Howard Skempton's 'Three pieces for solo oboe', the No 2

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« Reply #722 on: 00:50:13, 19-02-2008 »
That is indeed the correct answer, John. Your flipped coin fell the right way up. Now, how about Puzzles 116 and 118?
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« Reply #723 on: 00:53:32, 19-02-2008 »
Quote from: Daniel on 00:48:19, 19-02-2008
Quote from: Andy D on 00:29:02, 19-02-2008
No-one tried probing my snatches!

I did, I guessed wrongly at Feldman for one of them. But Quizmaster Grew has been calling in your numbers for a while now and if you are to honour local lore (for local people), it is now time reveal all.

So you did Daniel, my apologies. In fact tinners got that one right.

I wouldn't dream of revealing all however!
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« Reply #724 on: 01:08:08, 19-02-2008 »
Quote from: Bryn on 00:50:13, 19-02-2008
That is indeed the correct answer, John. Your flipped coin fell the right way up. Now, how about Puzzles 116 and 118?

I am delighted to receive this award which would have been impossible without the tireless support of Mr Bryn and the timely encouragement from Mr Grew, and the efforts of my mother and father from 1952 onwards.....
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« Reply #725 on: 01:41:53, 19-02-2008 »
Quote from: Bryn on 07:59:48, 18-02-2008
Puzzle 116.mp3 is to be found via the link to its file name.

Is this Bartok's 4th String Qtet?
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« Reply #726 on: 02:16:06, 19-02-2008 »
Quote from: Daniel on 01:41:53, 19-02-2008
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Puzzle 116.mp3 is to be found via the link to its file name.

Is this Bartok's 4th String Qtet?

No Daniel. May I refer you to replies 702 and 706 which made this clear. The work in question was, as mentioned earlier, completed before Bartok's 2nd Quartet. Indeed the composer's next work in the same genre was also completed before Bartok's 2nd Quartet, too.
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« Reply #727 on: 06:17:05, 19-02-2008 »
Quote from: Bryn on 02:16:06, 19-02-2008
[...] The work in question was, as mentioned earlier, completed before Bartok's 2nd Quartet. Indeed the composer's next work in the same genre was also completed before Bartok's 2nd Quartet, too.

The Member's kind hints and a glance at Grove, as well as a strange slide towards syncopation towards the end of the excerpt, all lead us to conclude that puzzle 116 comes from the First String Quartet of the Northern American Ives (who is of course not to be confused with Simon Ives the clean-limbed Englishman).

We do not possess a recording of the Quartet concerned, having already in our youth been permanently disaffected towards Ives's productions through the oft-repeated broadcast by the Third Programme of a dreary something called "The Unanswered Question."

If we are correct, we should be obliged if the Member would tell us more about the "popcorn" and what Messiaen said.
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« Reply #728 on: 08:21:55, 19-02-2008 »
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If we are correct, we should be obliged if the Member would tell us more about the "popcorn" and what Messiaen said.


Regrettably, that condition is not met. Charles Ives did write a number of works for the same combination of instruments featured in the puzzle clip, and his two principal works in that medium are both excellent examples of what can be achieved in it, but the work in question post-dates those works by a number of years. I would remind potential assayers of a solution to this puzzle, that the work, and its composer's following creation in the genre, was completed before Bartok's second string quartet. The popcorn has a Portuguese connection.
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Il Grande Inquisitor
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« Reply #729 on: 08:35:11, 19-02-2008 »
108 = Suk's Serendade for Strings op.6
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« Reply #730 on: 08:41:23, 19-02-2008 »
106 - Ravel died in 1937, so it must be his  Sonata for violin and piano No.1 in one movement, published after his death.
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« Reply #731 on: 08:58:23, 19-02-2008 »
106 and 108 correct IGI!! I suppose it doesn't matter which movement of the Suk....does it Mr Grew?

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« Reply #732 on: 09:00:07, 19-02-2008 »
Hurrah! The Suk is the second movement, Allegro, ma non troppo e grazioso, for the record. I didn't really discover this until late last year and being reminded of it now, shall rip it to the iPod for tomorrow!
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« Reply #733 on: 09:30:24, 19-02-2008 »
The solution to Puzzle 103 is that it is the Requiem
In memoriam Maija Kokkonen, by Joonas Kokkonen.
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« Reply #734 on: 09:32:04, 19-02-2008 »
Quote from: Bryn on 09:30:24, 19-02-2008
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').

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