Thanks so much to Listener Jeremy for his wonderful account of the Quintet recording session! Sadly, he neglected to include the best part of the day, namely, the two dozen baked goods that I (Will) brought for everyone from Shoofly Vegan Bakery in Portland.
NTT: I too am going to work from the clue, but I'm a little stumped here. Listener Tammy has a great point about Dvořak, but I feel like it's just one consonant that doesn't quite get the right pronunciation in his name.
The piece itself is clearly more modern than Dvořak by quite a stretch, but I could see it being Czech. Janacek? I just feel like with his name, anyone who would be in a position to speak it would know how to pronounce it.
I think it could be Russian, in which case I might propose Rodion Shchedrin. His name is tricky because it's spelled with a Щ, requiring one to pronounce BOTH the Sh and the ch, but they often get reduced to a simple "Sch".
The piece sounds a little Baroky. Maybe Kodaly? Do people mispronounce his name?
Wait, I think I've got it: Witold Lutosławski. It's gotta be. His name gets Anglicized all the time. In English spelling, you'd pronounce it "Veetold Lutoswavski".
And it's some kind of duet for clarinet and piano. I'll go out on a limb and say it's a sonata.
Love the quintet. I'm almost never gonna get the NTT from listening, so I am here for the clues. I am sure this is not Dvorak, but I'll take any opportunity to mention the commonly batted-around fact in phonetics studies that the Guinness Book of Records lists the Czech ř (voiced alveolar fricative trill) as the rarest/hardest speech sound, and it's my observation that no musicians pronounce Dvorak's name "correctly" unless they are Czech or very, very annoying. (As a side note, I always wonder whether mastering the most difficult ř sound logically means that native Czech speakers can then pronounce anything in any language.) Sorry that I have nothing actually pertinent to contribute!
Thanks so much to Listener Jeremy for his wonderful account of the Quintet recording session! Sadly, he neglected to include the best part of the day, namely, the two dozen baked goods that I (Will) brought for everyone from Shoofly Vegan Bakery in Portland.
Those pastries WERE delicious!
NTT: I too am going to work from the clue, but I'm a little stumped here. Listener Tammy has a great point about Dvořak, but I feel like it's just one consonant that doesn't quite get the right pronunciation in his name.
The piece itself is clearly more modern than Dvořak by quite a stretch, but I could see it being Czech. Janacek? I just feel like with his name, anyone who would be in a position to speak it would know how to pronounce it.
I think it could be Russian, in which case I might propose Rodion Shchedrin. His name is tricky because it's spelled with a Щ, requiring one to pronounce BOTH the Sh and the ch, but they often get reduced to a simple "Sch".
The piece sounds a little Baroky. Maybe Kodaly? Do people mispronounce his name?
Wait, I think I've got it: Witold Lutosławski. It's gotta be. His name gets Anglicized all the time. In English spelling, you'd pronounce it "Veetold Lutoswavski".
And it's some kind of duet for clarinet and piano. I'll go out on a limb and say it's a sonata.
Love the quintet. I'm almost never gonna get the NTT from listening, so I am here for the clues. I am sure this is not Dvorak, but I'll take any opportunity to mention the commonly batted-around fact in phonetics studies that the Guinness Book of Records lists the Czech ř (voiced alveolar fricative trill) as the rarest/hardest speech sound, and it's my observation that no musicians pronounce Dvorak's name "correctly" unless they are Czech or very, very annoying. (As a side note, I always wonder whether mastering the most difficult ř sound logically means that native Czech speakers can then pronounce anything in any language.) Sorry that I have nothing actually pertinent to contribute!
Just ran across this after I posted my NTT:
https://fb.watch/o8IGvP5YJi/?mibextid=NnVzG8
NTT: This is a total guessing game for me. Let's start with the easy part: clarinet + piano = clarinet sonata. Or not . . .
I'll just throw this list into my basket and toss like a salad:
Dohnányi
Saint-Saëns
Szymanowski
Dutilleux