ROUND 5: AUDIO - Encores
These famous pieces were originally written for different instruments;
here, they are played by Isaac Stern as encores, arranged for violin and orchestra.
We'll tell you what instruments each piece was originally written for.
Name the composer for the regular two points or one point. But this is a
bonus round. If you get the composer right, you can get an extra point
giving the title as well.
We'll give you a break and not require any numbers after the name of the
work. Also, classical pieces often have several acceptable titles; we've
tried to list as many as we could find.
No points for just getting the title without the composer.
The team cannot supply the title if you get the composer as a two-pointer;
that is, the only possible bonus scores are two plus one [solo] or one plus
one [team]. Got that?
(Links below are to clips in mp3 format.)
1. Originally written for piano and voice
Schubert
"Ave Maria" / "Ellens Gesang III"
2. Originally written for piano and voice
Mendelssohn
"On wings of song" / "Auf Fluegel des Gesanges" [Op. 34/2]
3. Originally written for two pianos
Brahms
"Hungarian Dance" [No. 5]
4. Originally written for piano
Dvorak
"Humoresque"
5. Written as a musical picture for orchestra
Rimsky-Korsakov
"Flight of the Bumblebee"
6. Originally written for piano and voice
Rachmaninov
"Vocalise"
7. Originally written for piano and voice
Tchaikovsky
"Mignon's Song" / "Only One Who Knows Loneliness" /
"None but the lonely heart" [three possible titles]
8. Originally written as a piece for string quartet
Borodin
"Nocturne" / "Notturno" [from String Quartet No. 2 in D major]
9. Originally written for piano
Satie
"Gymnopedie" [No. 3, 'Lent Et Grave']
10. Originally written for voice and orchestra
[George] Gershwin
"Bess, You is My Woman Now" [from Porgy and Bess]