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[subcontrabass]

Sorry if it wasn't clear from the question, but you're looking for three different works by three different composers.

So Romance(s): Brahms, Coleridge-Taylor, Glière ?

[Norfolk Born]

I don't know of a Brahms Romance with a prime opus number; the other two you mention have different prime numbers. However, Romance is correct. You need to find three with the same (prime) opus number.

[mercia]

However, Romance is correct.

well done subs.

[subcontrabass]

I don't know of a Brahms Romance with a prime opus number; the other two you mention have different prime numbers. However, Romance is correct. You need to find three with the same (prime) opus number.

All three that I gave were Opus 59.

[Norfolk Born]

As I (so carelessly) forgot to make it clear at the outset that I was looking for works from different composers, and you are clearly coinvinced of the impregnability of your position, I herewith confer upon you the honour of setting the next question. I shall keep my answer in reserve in the hope of wheeling it out in some form at some point in the future (if I can be bothered, that is).

[mercia]

isn't Brahms opus 59 a set of 8 songs ?

[Norfolk Born]

I'm now off to watch the BBC 4 documentary on the Doors' sixth album 'L.A. Woman'. Please sort it out between you.
(I still think my answer was better!)

[Flay]

We're going out tonight. Mrs Flay asked if the dress she was wearing made her look bulgy. I replied that she looked fine, the dress was very forgiving. I can't understand her reaction...!

[mercia]

well I was never good at maths but on the assumption that eleven is a prime number, I have Romances opus 11 by Finzi, Dvorak, Rachmaninov, Clara Schumann and the second movement of Chopin's First Piano Concerto.

if any of that is correct, I'm more than happy for subcontra to set a question since finding Romance was the hard part I feel.

[subcontrabass]

isn't Brahms opus 59 a set of 8 songs ?

A source that I found lists them as "Romances and Songs".

[subcontrabass]

well I was never good at maths but on the assumption that eleven is a prime number, I have Romances opus 11 by Finzi, Dvorak, Rachmaninov, Clara Schumann and the second movement of Chopin's First Piano Concerto.

if any of that is correct, I'm more than happy for subcontra to set a question since finding Romance was the hard part I feel.

Eleven is definitely a prime number.

Shall we try an unambiguous (I hope) S to link:

(1) Henry VIII
(2) the Lamb
(3) Elisa Mazzucato

[mercia]

A source that I found lists them as "Romances and Songs".

I'm not doubting your word, I guess we have to satisfy Norfie that there may be two alternative answers
I've found Coleridge-Taylor's opus 59, what is Gliere's please?

[subcontrabass]

I've found Coleridge-Taylor's opus 59, what is Gliere's please?

Seven Romances for Voice and Piano

[Norfolk Born]

Well, there you go! scb gets to set the next question even though somebody else came up with an equally valid list of works including those that I had chosen. Clearly, my answer was of no interest once a valid alternative had been pronounced (I choose my verb with care). Whatever happened to good manners?
(I guess it's my fault for offering to keep things moving by setting a question which proved to have more than one valid answer and wasn't worded as precisely as it might have been - like that's never happened before..)

[Norfolk Born]

Eleven is definitely a prime number.

Shall we try an unambiguous (I hope) S to link:

(1) Henry VIII
(2) the Lamb
(3) Elisa Mazzucato

Samson