Go Chris, Go Chris! It's ya birthday!

Awwwwwww Yeahhhhhh!

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Sheesh, Schmonz. I never heard of half of these composers. You are very smart, or I am very stupid. (Please don't answer that last remark. )

Knowing obscure composers is hardly a mark of intellectual distinction. It could just mean I spend way too much time digging up buried treasure and you've got better things to do. Plus, now you know them too.

Good point! But musical knowledge is a big 'turn-on' to nerds like me.

I thought this a good time to insert something completely random.

I laugh myself stupid every time I see this.

http://youtube.com/watch_fullscreen?vid ... Commercial

Pete, what the hell was that?

This does it for me (I've watched it several dozen times). Warning: colorful language.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3mw49mk_x0

Whoa! That sounds like one of my relatives talking (through marriage )
This is fun. It's like the saying, "When the cat's away (the bosses are sleeping right now) the mice will play.

Why, it was berries and cream!

It's a Starburst candy commercial. I laugh to the point of choking every time I see it. It just strikes me as hysterically funny.

Chris, put us back on-topic!!!

What the dollar sign/asterisk/percent sign/ampersand was that?

Ah, Catoire and Bortkiewicz... I thought these might feature in your list !
Can you leave these around for a while schmontz, I'd like to listen again
to the unidentified items.

On to the next round then. This should be more of an equal opportunity affair.
I have largely restricted to lesser-known works of very well-known composers,
and the fragments are rather longer than before. I believe there's something
here for everyone, but there may be also one or two tough notes to crack.

As I do not have an extensive CD or MP3 collection I had to play all tracks
myself. Had great fun yesterday slapping these on without any preparation, so
no comments please about the wonky playing and the couple of clumsy edits !
Consider them an added level of difficulty

All 20 composers are different, none of them featured in the previous round,
from which it follows that none of them is Medtner

R1_0001 - Grieg: Ballade in G minor op.24 [spotted by Kschyschtoff]
R1_0002 - Faure: Prelude Op.103 No.1 [spotted by coccobill]
R1_0003 - Bartok - from Microcosmos Vol. V: 132, major seconds [spotted by pianolady]
R1_0004 -Schumann: Novellette op.21 nr.8 (Trio II) [spotted by coccobill]
R1_0005
R1_0006 - Bach: Toccata BWV 916 (Adagio) [spotted by coccobill]
R1_0007 - Falla: Fantasia Baetica [spotted by coccobill]
R1_0008 - Beethoven: Bagatella op.119 nr. 1 [spotted by coccobill]
R1_0009 - Chopin: Ecossaise nr.1, op.72 no 3 [spotted by Kschyschtoff]
R1_0010 - Rachmaninov - Fragments [spotted by coccobill]
R1_0011
R1_0012 - Brahms: Haendel-Variations (Var. XI) [spotted by coccobill]
R1_0013 - Albeniz: El Albaicin, No. 6 from Iberia [spotted by pianolady]
R1_0014
R1_0015 - Liszt: Unstern ! [spotted by coccobill]
R1_0016 - Villa-Lobos - Xo, Xo, Passarinho, No.7 from "Cirandas" [spotted by pianolady]
R1_0017
R1_0018 - Mozart: Variations on "Unser dummer Pöbel meint", K.455 (Theme and Var. I) [spotted by coccobill]
R1_0019 - Poulenc: Suite Française, 5: Bransle de Champagne [spotted by coccobill]
R1_0020 - Prokofiev: Gavotte, No. 2 from 10 Pieces Op.12 [spotted by pianolady]


Score
coccobill 10
pianolady 4
Kschyschtoff 2

After quickly skimming the tracks:

08. Beethoven: Bagatella op.119 nr. 1
12. Brahms: Haendel-Variations (Var. XI)

If memory serves correctly, never heard the other ones. I think I spotted a couple of composers, perhpas more. Now I'll go and hunt them down.



Which is a pity!

A good start coccobill. You have been credited. I am glad it was not too trivial. Still things to discover even with the famous composers !

So far - #13 - Albeniz Iberia - El Albaicia
#20 - Prokofiev - March Op 12 no.1

El Albaicin, indeed.


Not so ! But, you could not possibly be closer