Classical music work ABC game

[Krummhorn]

Toccata und Fugue in D Minorl ... Bach (JS, of course)

 

[rojo]

'Una voce poco fa' from Il Barbieri di Siviglia, by Rossini

I think we can allow arias, no? And different languages as well. Because otherwise, continuing may be impossible...

So, for future reference, we can use any part of a classical musical work.

 

[acc]

OK, here's another stretch:

Vingt-quatre Pièces de Fantaisie by Louis Vierne.

 

[giovannimusica]

Alright - Here's a REAL stretch: Wagner's *Walkuerentritt* transcribed for organ by Edwin Lemare

 

[acc]

Walkuerentritt

The typo is quite funny, if you understand German


OK, next letter: X. X?? :crazy:

Ah! Got it: Xerxes, an opera by Georg Friedrich Händel.

 

[rojo]

(The) Yoeman of the Guard, operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan

 

[acc]

And the last one - (drum rolls) - Zéphyrs by Marcel Dupré.

 

[giovannimusica]

Ok, hows about individual works using last letter of previous work posting as beginning letter as in the other thread about composers?

SAGESSES by Charles Tournemire

 

[rojo]

Alrighty-

Songs Without Words, by Felix Mendelssohn

 

[Krummhorn]

yeesh ... multiple "s"

Ok, got one that doesn't end in "s"

Songs My Mother Taught Me by Antonin Dvorak

 

[giovannimusica]

Estampes by Claude DEBUSSY - thats Rune's favorite composer :grin:

 

[corno]

The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Paul Dukas (don't you just love those bassoons)

[copyright note deleted - it's just too late here to ponder that topic! ]

 

[giovannimusica]

Evocation by Marcel Dupre

 

[rojo]

Nocturne in c minor, op. post. by Frederic Chopin

One of his easier works.

 

[giovannimusica]

Esquisses by Marcel Dupre

 

[Krummhorn]

St. Anthony Chorale ... by Josef Haydn

 

[acc]

Song of the Forests by Shostakovich (OK, OK... let he who has never sinned cast the first rotten tomato).

 

[giovannimusica]

Salome by Richard Strauss

 

[acc]

Études d'exécution transcendante by Liszt.

 

[Krummhorn]

Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla
from Das Rheingold (opera) by Richard Wagner