Welcome to another episode of TwoSet Violin.
We're filming a video, but it's quite late,
so, we're not going to be yelling or screaming.
Today, we will be watching some...
University students
as they attempt to answer quiz questions...
About classical music.
It's a BBC show and they're just,
you know, normal college students.
So, they're not classical musicians.
We are classical musicians.
Let's see if we can answer the questions.
- I know. - I hope we get them right.
It'd be embarrassing if we don't, right?
For your music starter,
you'll hear a piece of classical music.
10 points if you can identify the composer, please.
Ooo, I think Clegg got it.
And Russell's like, "I have no clue."
It's a piano concerto obviously.
I'm pretty sure it's Rachmaninoff, right?
- Probably. - Rach 2.
I think.
Done. Lock it in, Rach.
St. Jone's, Clegg.
Ravel.
Nah.
Aww...
He tried.
Oh, he seems so confident too.
That's definitely not Ravel. It's too thick for Ravel.
It's too thick and romantic.
Ravel's more like colorful luscious.
Not thick juicy luscious.
Yeah, french, right.
- Oui, oui. It's more... - It's more oui, oui, less dasvidaniya.
Like, you can definitely tell it's a Russian style.
No. You can hear a little more, Peterhouse.
Powell's like...
- "I don't listen to classical music." - Powell's like -
"Why are you guys looking at me?"
Peterhouse, Powell.
Elgar.
Nah.
Did Elgar even write a piano concerto?
- Not that I know of. - Doesn't sound like Elgar.
It sounds too happy to be Elgar.
- I don't know, Elgar's pretty depressed and like sad. - Nimrod, right?
The violin concerto is like...
No one really plays it.
No, it's Rachmaninoff.
Ohh.
- I'm so glad I got it. - Dude, Clegg is like, "oh, damn it."
I thought it was Ravel.
One of his variations on
the Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini. So...
That's why! I was like it's not the concerto.
Of course. This is the Paganini theme.
He wrote a variation on dadaradadara~
But that movement he inverts it.
You know this, right?
He goes...
- Of course. - Dandandararadan!
Daradadan~
You are going to hear three more works that are
- variations on themes by other composers. - Is this still classical? It is.
This time, however, you will hear the original work as well.
- In each case, you'll hear the original work first. - Okay, okay. Let's see if we get it.
Followed by the variation.
- I'll need your two answers in that order, please. - This is...
- This is hard for people that don't listen... - It's actually very hard.
Like, if they get it wrong it's fine, I guess.
- Dadadadandan~ - Dadandan~
*Singing the melody*
I think it's Beethoven?
*Singing the melody*
Beethoven 7, right?
- Yeah, I think so. - Second movement.
I love how like Clegg is conducting.
He's like that, moving...
Dude, all his teammates are like,
"come on, Clegg, come on, Clegg."
If it's not Ravel, it must be Debussy.
There's a piano variation on...
- I actually don't know the piano. - I don't know the piano one.
I reckon Liszt or Chopin wrote it.
Beethoven and Haydn.
What?
Beethoven is right,
- but how could Haydn write it - - Haydn is before Beethoven.
Haydn came before Beethoven.
And that was much too romantic to be Haydn.
If it is Beethoven and Haydn,
I will perform all Paganini 24 caprices, live stream.
That's how confident I am that it is not Haydn.
No, it's Beethoven and Robert Schumann.
Schumann!
It's Schumann.
But he got half a point.
- He got the Beethoven. - That's impressive.
Secondly...
Oh, opera, man.
- Dude, nah, I'm out. - I don't know.
- But I'm gonna guess. - I'm out.
Pavarotti.
It sounds Italian.
Like Verdi.
- Yeah, Verdi. - But, let's hear the language.
Does it sound italian?
Dude, I do not know, it just sounds European to me.
Sanna, help.
- I don't know any opera. - I'm going to guess Verdi.
But, I have no idea, I'm probably wrong.
- We wouldn't even be able to win this show. - I know...
Dude, this is so hard.
The piano style sounds like Liszt or Chopin.
- Cause it's very good embellishments. - It's quite...
- Babababadadadad, the octaves sound like Liszt to me. - Yeah. Sowood is just out of it.
"Let me know when it's the math questions again."
"I didn't practice enough in my childhood."
- Liszt and Mozart. - Mozart and Liszt.
Oh, Mozart and Liszt.
It could be, could be.
No, it's Bellini and Liszt.
- Bellini! Bellini sounds Italian! - Ooo... Bellini...
Dude, I don't even know who Bellini is.
You know those audio tests?
- I don't remember Bellini. - Or whatever.
Italian opera composer.
I remember there's all these like...
Pieces you had to memorize.
- We did have to memorize some music. - And Bellini was there, I remember Bellini.
But we got the Liszt and I'm glad I could tell it was Italian.
And finally...
What's with all the opera?
Oh, I know this though!
Lala~
- You know, do you know this? - Pavarotti.
- Singing it. - It's not... Probably.
- Every dude is Pavarotti. - Pavarotti.
All right, the piano is definitely not Liszt.
They're saying Chopin.
It doesn't sound like Chopin to me, but I could be wrong.
I mean, they're quite educated guesses.
Yeah, it's better than Ravel.
Yeah.
- I don't know. - Let's see.
Yeah, let's just see.
Mozart and Chopin?
Correct!
Oh, nice.
- It was! - Impressive.
- It does seem like Britten. - Britten.
But this is so hard for these guys.
- I don't even know. - It's hard for us.
Open, Crawford.
Benjamin - Benjamin Britten.
Benjamin Britten is correct.
- How did he know? - My man!!
We're not going to be yelling...
Dude, look at him.
He looks like my professor at music uni.
Your music bonuses are three more operas
that include roles for children.
I simply want you to identify the composer in each case.
Firstly, identify this French composer.
Why are they all opera, man?
- I know! - That's like literally the one I don't know.
My first thought was Bizet cause he writes...
- Oh, Bizet, I forgot about Bizet, yeah. - He writes opera.
- But I don't... - I'm already lost now, let's see.
But this doesn't sound like Carmen.
Poulenc.
Delibes.
*Gasp*
Delibes, I forgot about Delibes.
No, it was Debussy.
Debussy...
Fair enough.
Dude, that was so obvious.
Of course it's Debussy.
I love Debussy, but I don't listen to opera.
Yeah, I know, yeah.
Everything but the opera.
And secondly this Austrian composer.
Oh, I know this one!
Actually, I don't know.
I'm gonna guess it's um...
Berg!
If it's not Berg, I'm gonna go practice 40 hours after this.
Humperdinck.
No, it's Alban Berg.
Yeah...
Nice one.
My sister studied this opera.
You know that bit that's happening?
- Yeah. - On stage, it's a little kid with a wooden horse...
And his mother just drowned and everyone's like...
"Haha, your mom drowned."
And he's just playing on the horse in denial,
and that's the end of the opera.
Dude, that's so dark.
- "Your mom died." - No wonder the music sounds so dark.
I don't know. It sounds very angelic.
It's like Mozart or something.
I thought that.
Dude, it sounds like a Christmas carol.
Oh, yeah, it is just like a Christmas carol.
Mozart.
It is Mozart.
- Yeah. - It was Mozart.
- Wow! - Woo!
Dude, they're smart.
You can tell they're kind of trying to
- understand the styles more, and... - Yeah, they're well versed.
First performed in the 1740s, the pastorale héroïque operas
entitled Zaïs and Naïs are works by which French composer?
Dude, that guy is me right now.
- Yeah. What the hell? - Zaïs?
And Naïs?
Performed in the 1740s...
1740s, classical.
Which French composer?
- French. - French composer.
What's that French Baroque composer?
Ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra...
Rameau? Rasseau?
Rasseau!
Was it Rasseau?
Yeah, I know what you -
- Let's see. - All right, let's see.
Berlioz?
No, Jean-Philippe Rameau.
Rameau!
You will hear a piece of classical music
by a German composer.
Ten points if you can name the piece.
Beethoven 6.
Pastorale.
First movement.
in F major.
Manchester, Rowlands.
No, sorry.
- They're like, "ahh, why did you..." - Dude, you idiot.
- He panicked. - He panicked.
Just say something.
Just say the most famous composer.
Bam~
Baram~
This is lamentable, come on,
it's one of the most famous pieces of classical music.
- Wow, he just roasted them. - He just gave - Yeah, I know.
This is lamentable.
I like that, I'm going to use that from now on.
Lamentable.
The last BBC guy's like sacrilegious.
This BBC guy's like lamentable.
Warwicker.
The Rite of Spring.
I guess, spring, right?
That's probably what she was thinking.
She wasn't wrong.
The problem is Rite of Spring does not sound like spring,
Rite of Spring sounds like a ritual,
where they're sacrificing pagans to the pagan gods.
No, the sixth symphony by Beethoven.
- Dude, he looks so - - He's so annoyed.
Oh, it's lamentable.
You're gonna hear three more pieces of classical music.
I want the title of the piece and the composer.
Firstly, for five.
- Oh, Queen of Sheba? Sheba? - Queen of Sheba, yes. Yeah.
By Handel, right?
- Dude, busking with the... - I remember busking...
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba.
Oh, she knows it!
She's good.
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba by Handel.
- Yeah, wow. - That is correct.
She made up for the Rite of Spring.
Minuet.
Boccherini.
This is a piece that everyone's played when they learn,
but no one knows who is it by.
I remember it was by the Suzuki second book.
- I think it's Boccherini. - I think it's Boccherini.
No, pass.
- No! - That's Boccherini's Minuet.
- Dude, I'm getting nervous, man. - Yeah, I know.
This piece of music used by Thurrock Council
about your call being important to them.
Is it like Eine Kleine?
- Dude, you freaking read the future. - I called it.
He's like, "what piece of music makes people know that
their call is important?"
Eine Kleine.
Nice.
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart.
- Yeah... - Why is he answering?
- I don't know. I don't know, yeah. - Why doesn't Warwicker answer?
He's like, "I'm gonna take the credit."
Picture starter, you'll see a silhouette portrait of a composer
depicted at the mercy of a music critic.
For 10 points, I want you to identify the composer.
Who's the figure on the right?
Dude, what kind of question is this?
But I reckon it looks like Beethoven.
Beethoven?
No, it's Wagner. So...
It did look like Beethoven.
Nah, what a dumb question.
- This is a dumb question. - Dumb dumb.
Next one.
Your picture bonuses are
- three more of these portraits of composers. - Oh, man...
Firstly, who's this?
So, that was Wagner's time, right?
- Brahms. - Brahms. I'm thinking Brahms.
Debussy?
No, it's Brahms.
Yeah. Brahms.
Oh, that's old Liszt, right?
- Yeah. Liszt, Liszt, Liszt. - Liszt when he was old.
Liszt?
Liszt is correct.
- Yeah. - Yes, depicted there is the Abbé Liszt, and finally...
- Oh! - Oh, Bernstein!
No, no, no, it's Mahler.
Oh, Mahler. Oh...
If it's not Mahler, I'm going to practice 40 hours.
Mahler?
Mahler is correct!
Wow... They nailed it.
Excerpts now from classical pieces of music,
all inspired by the myth of Orpheus,
in each case I'd like the name of the composer, please.
First, this Russian composer.
I'm not sure, but it sounds like Prokofiev to me.
Prokofiev?
No, that's Stravinsky.
- Oh, Stravinsky... - Oh, yeah, Stravinsky.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Close.
They're very similar.
Dude, these are hard.
Oh, Can-can.
- Who is it by again? - William tell. Rossini.
No, William tell is the... *Sings melody*
Can-can's by...
I don't even know, I am tired.
Okay. Handel.
No, no, it's Offenbach.
- Oh, Offenbach. - Offenbach.
- Dude, he was like... He was like... - Dude, he was so...
"Ha, no!"
Dude, he's so condescending.
- He's so brutal. - Look, they're like...
- Dude... - Dude, chill.
You'll hear an excerpt from a suite of classical music
that's being used as the basis for a ballet, for 10 points.
Oh, it's Clegg again.
My man Clegg.
Oh...
- Oh, um... - Scheherazade.
- Yeah, Scheherazade. - Rimsky-Korsakov.
St John's, Clegg.
Delibes Carmen.
- No. - No.
No, you can hear a little more, Liverpool.
Come on.
Liverpool, Bennett.
Sabre Dance, Khachaturian.
No, it's Rimsky-Korsakov.
Getting closer though, Khachaturian.
Bonuses are three more works
that Fokine turned into ballets...
I want the composer of each, please.
Firstly, for five, this Russian composer.
Petrushka.
Ooo.
I know my ballet music.
Stravinsky, that's from Petrushka.
- Yes! - Secondly, this German composer...
Ah, I lied, I don't know my ballet music.
No, that's Weber, the Spectre of the Rose.
And finally, this...
French composer.
Ravel.
There's Ravel. Come on, Clegg.
Come on, Clegg.
Delibes.
They keep saying Delibes.
- Yeah, dude. He loves Delibes. - It's such a random...
All right, guys, how did you guys go?
That was very hard.
That was hard.
At first like, when he said Ravel, I was like,
"oh my god, this is so dumb."
But then the questions got really hard.
I came into this video not knowing what to expect.
I was expecting them to just be like,
totally clueless young people,
but I'm actually finding them pretty smart.
- They know, they know. - And like...
The host is pretty like brutal, man.
Anyway, guys, if you made it this far,
you've had enough of a break.
Remember, it's time to go study and practice.
So when your teacher asks you these questions,
you are ready to answer.
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Lamentable.
- That's our new favorite word. - Lamentable.
Lamentable.