Care to play Name That Tune?

[thalbergmad]

It is a piano concerto.

[retrouvailles]

It is a piano concerto.

Percussion diagrams for piano concertos nowadays aren't that uncommon because percussion sections have expanded significantly, and a lot composers care a lot about spatial organization also. Any other hints about the composer and/or work?

[john11inc]

Percussion diagrams for piano concertos nowadays aren't that uncommon because percussion sections have expanded significantly, and a lot composers care a lot about spatial organization also. Any other hints about the composer and/or work?

Well, [timp.2perc] with no mallet instrument is fairly weird, so that might be a clue.

[thalbergmad]

Composer is American.

[retrouvailles]

Well, [timp.2perc] with no mallet instrument is fairly weird, so that might be a clue.

How is that weird? Not everyone uses mallet percussion instruments nowadays. There isn't really a standard as to how people write for percussion nowadays. People just do whatever they think works in their piece.

As to the identity of the piece, I really have no clue. There just isn't enough information, given that I don't even know what the piano part sounds like.

[thalbergmad]

Studied with Babbit and Sessions

[retrouvailles]

Studied with Babbit and Sessions

Hmm, another vague hint, but now it's getting fun. Donald Martino, possibly? Although, I don't know if he has a piano concerto. I can't say I'm a huge fan of his post-serial hyper-complex music, either.

[thalbergmad]

Well done old boy.

Top marks.

Thal

[john11inc]

How is that weird? Not everyone uses mallet percussion instruments nowadays. There isn't really a standard as to how people write for percussion nowadays. People just do whatever they think works in their piece.

Fine.  It's not "weird".

It's "uncommon".  Anyway, I think I like the sheet music thing more than the listening thing.

[retrouvailles]

Anyone up for another round of Name That Tune, audio edition? I might prepare some recordings if there is any interest. I'd like to get this one going alongside the other one!

[mephisto]

It would be nice retro.

[mephisto]

While we wait. Here is one by me. I know some people will find it easy, but it is really quite rare when you think about it.

[retrouvailles]

While we wait. Here is one by me. I know some people will find it easy, but it is really quite rare when you think about it.

That's Hamelin's Little Nocturne. Not a bad little piece.

As far as my selections go, I want to provide a nice mix of things that people will and probably won't know, so it will be some time.

[mephisto]

Two romantic pieces.  For piano buffs..or maybe operabuffs...

[mephisto]

Are they that  difficult?
Guess 2 is a paraphrase on an romantic opera by a famous romantic pianist. Guess 3 is an etude by a russian romantic composer. He is no so well-known.

[retrouvailles]

Why is the sound quality so bad on these recordings? Are they just old recordings?

[mephisto]

I don't have many recordings on this computer, just a few bootlegs. So these are bootlegs from the 70ths. When I get my other hard-disc I will be able to post better recordings.

[mephisto]

Should I just name the two pieces?

[communist]

Is no.1 a paraphrase on Bellini Norma? and is no.2 by Arensky? 

[mephisto]

Is no.1 a paraphrase on Bellini Norma? and is no.2 by Arensky? 

Both of them are wrong, but they aren't bad guesses.

No.1 is by Liszt, and is based on an opera by Donizetti.
No. 2 is by Bortkiewicz ( an etude).

[invictious]

Just for reviving this thread, this should be a rather easy one for dear fellow forum members to guess. Starting off easy gives a psychological boost and increases activity in this thread I guess.

[retrouvailles]

That's the famous Rachmaninoff prelude in e flat major (I forget the number). Why is it played on such a bright, honky-tonk-like piano, though?

[invictious]

Retrouvailles, I think you are referring to his Etudes-Tableaux Op. 33 No. 7in E-Flat major instead of the Prelude in E-flat major Op.23 No.6. I shall give you the benefit of the doubt. You will instead get half a biscuit instead of a whole biscuit.

I think that the snippet also sounds very Lisztian