@@MrRemi1802He actually said "from all centuries" (!). I was dreading Baroque / Renaissance -- but didn't hear any! All very much my kind of thing (and pretty well the very opening of movements): so I got lucky (13/15).
@@oritdrimer4354 Nah, much like Chopin he was at home in small formats with his focus on miniatures. Sonatas and Piano Concertos were never fitting of those while also being too restrictive of what he wanted to do.
Y'all know that "the Tristan chord" is lifted straight out of Berlioz "Romeo and Juliet," right? It's handled differently, of course, but the chord itself? Berlioz.
More or less the same (i.e. I had some lucky guesses) - I was kicking myself about the Tchaikovsky ones - must get back to listening to that composer's symphonies !
Yeah - I grew up steeped in classical music and was an orchestral violinist in my youth - only got about 5. Too much opera, never enjoyed opera much. Classical music is about more than Opera. Not one piece from the baroque, and only Stravinsky really in 20th C. A bunch of overly dramatic romantics - nice if you like that sort of thing - I don't particularly. Let's have a bit of Sibelius, or a bit of Bach. Britten, or Walton. What about the entire choral repertoire other than Opera! A single piano concerto, what about violin concertos? Cello Concertos? Quartets! Give me Shostakovich 8th string quartet!
It's Schubert's Winterreise, without 'Die'. Schubert left out 'Die' to avoid having the exact same title of Wilhelm Müller's poem cycle, which is Die Winterreise
Years ago I had the confidence-building experience of turning on the radio just in time to hear the last chord of Sibelius' "Valse Triste," and correctly identified the piece. I had previously never heard the work, but had recently completed my study of the score. The final chord is quite unique in its construction and balance! Perhaps you can prepare a test of opening and closing chords of various works to challenge us to identify them just from the orchestral construct?
13/15!!! I did *not* expect to make it that far. Actually, the only two I missed were realted to the Symphonie Fantastique... I guess I need to brush up on my Berlioz 🧐
9/15! I need to study up on opera and Dvorak symphonies haha. Haven't listened to them since 2021. Also, I appreciate how high quality your production is for a small channel! Good luck in your future pursuits
Never heard “Hansel und Gretel”. I’d better change that. Also didn’t know the Bruckner 7th but guessed right. Happy with 12/15 and maybe some bonus for the Tristan chord!
Proud of my 11/15! Sorry to say I am a bit lacking in my knowledge of Italian opera and solo piano works. I also got tripped up trying to remember which Tchaik symphony I was hearing.
Interestingly, the use of bitonality at the opening of part two of "Le Sacre du Printemps" also turns up in "Turandot", notably during the openings to Acts I and III. I wonder if Puccini was influenced by Stravinsky?
Oh dear! I knew only 3 out of the 15 before the options came up. I had a couple of lucky guesses after they did, but I'm not going to count those. I'm off now to listen to Dvorak's 9th symphony - the whole of it, not just the well-known bit that goes daaaah da daaaaaah, daaaah da daaaah, daaaah da daah daah daaaaaah....
12/15. I'm not an opera fan and so I missed Hansel & Gretel. I should have gotten Bruckner's 7th. I adore Bruckner's 4th, 8th and 9th and now I'll listen to his 7th. Classical music has enriched my life in so many ways. Also, it's so nice to see you have company.
12/15. I missed out on Humperdinck, Pucchini and Strauss/Salome - I'm not much of an opera type (at least not when it stretches beyond Mozart operas). You made me curious about Humperdinck though. Btw, I personally would not characterize Schubert as 'soft and gentle', more melancholic and almost painfully beautiful. Different temperament from Beethoven, but in terms of quality the same level. Very nice selection of pieces.
15/15, but still a good challenge. I'm pianist and sometimes opera accompanist. Also worked in a music library. It's a good thing I played Hansel and Gretel or I might have missed that. You have a new subscriber.
Thank you for pointing out how amazing Dvorak's 9th is!!! No joke I have a CD in my car that plays his 8th and 9th Symphonies on repeat! Truly masterpieces!
14/15 - but several of the symphonies were lucky guesses. I would have done a lot worse if the test were fill in the blank. Usually I can guess a composer and/or school even if I don’t know the exact work. I suppose it’s the product of a mis-spent youth, sulking at home by the stereo rather than out thrashing to Dead Kennedys like the other ‘80s teens. I also took ballet as a kid and played in the school band.
Here's a list of pieces I would recommend. Ravel Daphnis et Chloe second suite Mahler symphony 3 6 7 an d9 Beethoven 5 6 9 Berlioz symphony fantastique The nutcracker Tchaikovsky Brukner symphony 4 7 8 Tchakovsky 4 5 6 Brahms symphony all 4 Schumann symphony 3 Schubert symphony unfinished and number 8 in " the große" in c major Opera La boheme Hansel and gretel (this one is a great beginner opera, probably the easiest to get into, and probably the greatest one ever written, it's amazing, truly, can highly recommend it) Salome Strauss Mozart Magic flute Wagner Tristan and Lohengrin Ouvertures
I share your sentiment. He says, "There's not one movement you'd like to skip [in the Dvorak 9] like in pretty much every other symphony." Seriously? This guy is way too critical.
10/15 but I definitely needed the four answers to choose. It made me realize I have now clue of Mahler, Bruckner and Operas whatsoever. I should educate myself.
11/15. I teach middle & high school orchestra and have played in many local and professional symphonies. Primary instrument is viola, but I also play bass and piano. Great trivia.
14/15 caught me in number 15 with Salomé, although I have to say I guessed the last ones because I knew very well the other options 😅 Thank you! Very straightforward and approachable content :)
I got 9. Kinda 9 1/2 bc I recognized one of them but didn’t guess it in time. Tuba players tend to forget about the first 3 movements of Symphonie fantastique
7/15. I'm not a professional musician, but I come form a musical family (my brother, mother and aunt are classical pianists), so classical music is part of our family life.
Got all except the last, though I guessed correctly Richard Strauss. Composers can be famous yet some of their best hardly anyone notices, for instance Bach's aria "Liebster Jesu mein Verlangen" probably my all time favorite melody.
I got maybe like 2 without guessing lol I love classical music but I struggle to move on from a piece and find something new to listen. This video will probably be useful for that
13/15, only two mistakes! I do get the bonus points for the Tristan chord though, haha. I'm not a big opera fan so I sadly choked on Hansel & Gretel, which I actually knew, which I guess made up for getting lucky on Turandot (which I didn't). My other lapse came from Bruckner, a composer I've never really studied or even carefully listened to. Thanks for the quiz!
my retired brother who has played in many symphonies and plays his Oboe , and now also English Horn in a symphony in Boise , Idaho could most likely guess every one of your questions correctly ! I only got 3 right 😅 oh and he LOVES Mahler ❤❤❤❤❤
15/15, and I'm not a musician, but I have to admit Turandot was a guess, and if there were other Bruckner symphonies to choose from I might have missed that one as well.
I got them all immediately without needing the multiple choice. I missed the Schubert song because I'm not an expert at his leider although Schubert is one of my favorite composers.
15/15. Mostly familiar pieces, but could not have done more than 10 without the choises... In most cases it was easy to rule out three. This challenge shows that 40 years of casual listening will make you familiar with the standard repertoire without actually knowing too much about the pieces or the composers...
Wagner's Tristan Chord is certainly NOT VI to V in a-minor!!! If you take the release note of g# to a it is an augmented 3/4 chord, but the function is subdominant !!!
The moment I realized that this wasn’t piano centered, I knew I was screwed. 🥲 I only got 6! I got most of the piano stuff right, though! If it was mainly piano focused, I would have killed it. Lol!
Thanks for this video! A lot of fun. 11/15. I always thought I was pretty well educated in classical music, but now I know where the holes in my knowledge are.
Calling Hansel and Gretel top 5 operas of all time is quite an opinion, especially since it seems to be the piece that people recognized the least. It was the only one I didn't get and I'm a conductor so my orchestral repertoire is naturally quite large.
Hansel and Gretel is usually a seasonal opera performed only around Christmas. Most casual listeners get their classical fill with The Nutcracker. H&G is also great, and all lovers of classical music should at least know the Dream Pantomime. That's a basic necessity.
I am emphatically no expert but I write reviews of recordings for a reasonably well-known classical music website and I have been listening for over fifty years, so I got them all right. However, had it not been for the multiple choice prompts, while I would always have recognised the composer, when it was a question of pin-pointing which symphony it was, I might have faltered.
Too easy for me. I would have gotten all of them even without the multiple choice. So 15/15. But I'm a freak anyway. I recognize pieces by an individual voice when I hear our orchestra warming up before a performance and someone is going through their part for something else they are currently practicing. I'll have to give you props though for not simply picking opening bars all the time. Makes it more difficult. Still not enough for me. ;) (By the way: Be mindful of your terms. It's not the Tristan Overture. Wagner stopped writing Overtures after Tannhäuser. It's a Prelude. And was that the Zubin Mehta recording of Turandot? Sure sounded familiar to me.)
Your overture comment is interesting. Wagner wrote Die Meistersinger after Tannhäuser and you can say that it has an overture. The score is marked Vorspiel which according to the dictionary means prelude or overture. Everyone knows that the opening 10-minute orchestral passage is just as much an overture as anything that Rossini wrote to start his operas. When it appears in concert, there's a 50% chance that it'll be called an overture or a prelude. On the other hand, Tristan is listed in the score as Einleitung which means introduction. You're right that Tristan does not have an overture, but Die Meistersinger which was written after Tannhäuser does have one.
