Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

Swedish composer Gosta Nystroem's third, fourth and sixth symphonies are respectively the

Sinfonia del Mare, Sinfonia Shakespeariana and Sinfonia Tramontana


[ I promise to set an O ]

Quite correct! (sorry was stuffing my face with Mozzarella when you came back on that!)

Nicely worked out

O yes... Over tO yOu

[mercia]

which O was a Cordoban favourite, topped in Leeds and stood-in for Dr. Kildare (in a manner of speaking)

[Nick Armstrong]

which O was a Cordoban favourite, topped in Leeds and stood-in for Dr. Kildare (in a manner of speaking)

My first thought concerning Leeds was that this must be the winner of the 1966 Leeds Piano Competition, Rafael Orozco... I see he was from Cordoba (and indeed he was elected Hijo Predilecto of the city - a Favourite Son).

But I have no idea about the Kildare bit...

EDIT: hang on... "Orozco's playing was used in Ken Russell's 1970 film The Music Lovers" says Wiki... Didn't Richard Chamberlain play Tchaikovsky having been Kildare on telly?

[mercia]

Rafael Orozco

well done

who played the doctor ? and what musical part did he also play ?

[mercia]

EDIT: hang on... "Orozco's playing was used in Ken Russell's 1970 film The Music Lovers" says Wiki... Didn't Richard Chamberlain play Tchaikovsky having been Kildare on telly?

yep, that's what I had in mind



must be your turn again

[Nick Armstrong]

yep, that's what I had in mind

Well done for finding a new O.... don't think the splendid and sadly-late Rafael has featured before.

I am about to head west so there will be a short interlude while I think of a P on the move....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te9otprt2mk

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te9otprt2mk

Pussycat?

[Nick Armstrong]

Pussycat?

Yes, sweetcheeks?

Oh... I see!



Very good ferney

Sorry for the delay, was sidetracked upon returning home

At last...

A Christian P linking Passion, Coffee and a tuneless and funereal oeuvre...

[Nick Armstrong]

A Christian P linking Passion, Coffee and a tuneless and funereal oeuvre...

No takers...

Everyone too busy making hot cross buns, sanding their sheds, mourning Richard Griffiths...

We are at the heart of the baroque with this one, folks, come along... you've been listening, haven't you?

[mercia]

German poet Christian Friedrich Henrici under the pseudonym Picander apparently wrote the libretti for Bach's Coffee Cantata, St Matthew Passion and funeral ode Klagt, Kinder, klagt es aller Welter , the music of which does not survive, hence tuneless

I don't think anyone is playing this game

[Nick Armstrong]

German poet Christian Friedrich Henrici under the pseudonym Picander apparently wrote the libretti for Bach's Coffee Cantata, St Matthew Passion and funeral ode Klagt, Kinder, klagt es aller Welter , the music of which does not survive, hence tuneless

I don't think anyone is playing this game

It may well go slow over the holiday weekend, it's true... Thanks mercia, the perfect answer...

Maybe set the next question when the spirit moves you, as opposed to straight away - unless you have a Quite excellent Q up your jumper, of course...

[mercia]

sorry can't think of a Q


which R X 3 link

The Dream of Gerontius, a concerto-symphony and Apollo's half-dozen strings

[hedgehog]

sorry can't think of a Q


Apollo's half-dozen strings

AHa! hexachordum apollinis perhaps a more worthy canon of Pachelbel. Dedicated to Dieterich Buxtehude and one Ferdinand Tobias Richter.

A trio of them?

[mercia]

Richter.

A trio of them?

to the spiny one


EDIT - the other two concern premieres

[hedgehog]

to the spiny one


EDIT - the other two concern premieres

I have the other two: Hans Richter was the conductor for the premiere of Gerontius and Prokoviev - a cellist duo, one for the concerto part and one for the symphony

Sviatislov Richter conducted the premiere of Prokoviev's (ahem, a bit sly here mercia) Symphony-Concerto/Sinfonia Concertante for cello & orchestra.
Rostropovich being the soloist.