Alphabet associations - I

[Angle]

Fine, Tapiola. I posted the first in error - it was part of my preparation. Well done, though.
Now I'll consider the R but it could be some time before I get back - the sun is shining very brightly here and I need to get out for a while.

[Tapiola]

Sunny too here, Angle. And it's lunchtime...

[Angle]

But first: are all clues musical? If they are, I am barking up the wrong tree here.

[vinteuil]

... are we talking Razumovskys?

[Tapiola]

Clues 2 & 3 are musical...

[Tapiola]

... are we talking Razumovskys?

I like the way you are thinking, vinteuil, but, alas, no...

[Anna]

What R

- could be first, second or third;
- is just going through a phase; and
- was, by extension, a good pal of Beethoven?

Steve Reich
Phase Patterns
Waldstein Express based on Beethoven's Sonata

Is probably totally wrong

[Angle]

I think we might be talking about a number of regimes, a violinist nephew and an American minimalist.

[Tapiola]

Keep going Anna and Angle...

[Angle]

Oh Anna, a cross post.

Steve Reich is the american minimalist who wrote Phase Patterns

Having seen your Waldstein bit maybe I am wrong to think of a violin-playing nephew.

NOW I really am going out.

[Nick Armstrong]

The lively icecream man was "Oh, oh Antonio" who had an ice-cream cart. Remember ?

I still don't get how you arrive at Quatro Stagione from that...

The first two are great clues, I agree. I was thinking of the Audi Quattro, rather than Wolf-Ferrari (Wolf itself being a Grand Prix marque albeit of much less standing than Ferrari, although it did hold the distinction - unique I think for a privateer team - of winning its first ever grand prix (Jody Scheckter, Argentine GP, 1977), with a very pretty car at that, the WR1 http://www.research-racing.de/wr1-0.htm ... *pops anorak back in the cupboard* )

[rubbernecker]

- was, by extension, a good pal of Beethoven?[/B]

Anton Reicha

[Angle]

Sorry, Caliban.

Music Hall song "Oh, oh Antonio" gives us Vivaldi's forename and the lively bit was playing with the "Viva" bit of his surname.

|Now I really AM GOING OUT and shall get something from Antonio's Ice Cream Parlour to cool me down.

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh Anna...

Having seen your Waldstein

You've seen Anna's Waldstein???!!

[mercia]

First, Second and Third Reichs in Germany