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An Interactive G major Game: One-On-One Match Countdowns (Selection Thread)

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#1 ·
This most recent installment of the one-on-one match countdowns series is devoted to works in the key of G major. We will be selecting 16 works on an interactive basis.

Here are the selection rules:

1. You may pick up to 3 selections each day but not more than 1 selection per composer.

2. Once you make a particular selection, you may not make that selection again. If and when that selection is also picked by 2 other members, it will be game-ready.

3. When 16 works become game-ready, the selection process will cease and the game will begin.

4. Please use the format as displayed below.

My three picks for today:

Dvorák - String Quartet no. 13, op. 106 (1)
Mozart - Piano Concerto no. 17 (1)
Schubert - Piano Sonata, D 894 (1)
 
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#5 ·
Selections:

Bach - Brandenburg Concerto no. 3, BWV 1048 (1)
Beethoven - Piano Concerto no. 4, op. 58 (2)
Brahms - Violin Sonata no. 1 (1)
Brahms - String Quintet no. 2, op. 111 (1)
Dvorák - String Quartet no. 13, op. 106 (1)
Dvorak - Symphony no. 8, op. 88 (1)
Haydn - Symphony no. 92 "Oxford" (1)
Mahler - Symphony no. 4 (1)
Mozart - Piano Concerto no. 17 (1)
Ravel - Piano Concerto (1)
Schubert - Piano Sonata, D 894 (1)
 
#11 ·
Game-Ready (4):
Brahms - Violin Sonata no. 1
Dvorák - String Quartet no. 13, op. 106
Mahler - Symphony no. 4
Schubert - String Quartet no. 15, D. 887

On-Going Selections:

Bach - Prelude and Fugue in G Major (WTC Book II) (2)
Bach - Brandenburg Concerto no. 3, BWV 1048 (1)
Beethoven - Piano Concerto no. 4, op. 58 (2)
Brahms - String Quintet no. 2, op. 111 (1)
Dvorak - Symphony no. 8, op. 88 (2)
Dyson - Symphony (2)
Haydn - Symphony no. 92 "Oxford" (1)
Mozart - Piano Concerto no. 17 (1)
Ravel - Piano Concerto (1)
Schubert - Piano Sonata, D 894 (2)
 
#22 · (Edited)
I have mixed feelings about Bach's Goldberg Variations, but it is correct that all the variations are in G major except for three that are in G minor.
Anyone have an opinion on this?
Well, I think it works because most other works mentioned in this game, are not 'homotonal' like Haydn's La Passione. They have middle movements that are not in G major. Ravel for example, has his slow movement in E major. The Classicists invariably have theirs in the subdominant key (C major in this case) or the relative minor key (E minor in this case). So, if you think of the individual variations in the Bach as 'movements', - it doesn't matter what key they are in as far as this game is concerned. G major and G minor are parallel keys and have the same tonic anyway.
 
#18 ·
Game-Ready (7):
Brahms - Violin Sonata no. 1
Dvorák - String Quartet no. 13, op. 106
Dyson - Symphony
Mahler - Symphony no. 4
Mozart - Piano Concerto no. 17
Schubert - String Quartet no. 15, D. 887
Vaughan Williams - A London Symphony

On-Going Selections:

Bach - Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (1)
Bach - Prelude and Fugue in G Major (WTC Book II) (2)
Bach - Brandenburg Concerto no. 3, BWV 1048 (1)
Beethoven - Piano Sonata no. 25, op. 79 (1)
Beethoven - Piano Concerto no. 4, op. 58 (2)
Brahms - String Quintet no. 2, op. 111 (2)
Brahms - String Sextet no. 2, op. 36 (2)
Dvorak - Symphony no. 8, op. 88 (2)
Hamerik - Symphony no. 6, op. 38 "Symphonie spirituelle" (1)
Haydn - Piano Trio no. 39 "Gypsy" (1)
Haydn - String Quartet op. 77 no. 1 (1)
Haydn - Symphony no. 92 "Oxford" (1)
Ravel - Piano Concerto (2)
Schubert - Piano Sonata, D 894 (2)
 
#24 · (Edited)
Game-Ready (12):
Beethoven - Piano Concerto no. 4, op. 58
Brahms - Violin Sonata no. 1
Brahms - String Sextet no. 2, op. 36
Dvorák - String Quartet no. 13, op. 106
Dvorák - Symphony no. 8, op. 88
Dyson - Symphony
Haydn - String Quartet op. 77 no. 1
Mahler - Symphony no. 4
Mozart - Piano Concerto no. 17
Ravel - Piano Concerto
Schubert - String Quartet no. 15, D. 887
Vaughan Williams - A London Symphony

On-Going Selections:

Bach - Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (1)
Bach - Prelude and Fugue in G Major (WTC Book II) (2)
Bach - Brandenburg Concerto no. 3, BWV 1048 (2)
Beethoven - Piano Sonata no. 25, op. 79 (1)
Brahms - String Quintet no. 2, op. 111 (2)
Chopin - Nocturne no. 12 in G major, op. 37/2 (1)
Glazunov - String Quartet no. 3, op. 26 "Slav Quartet" (1)
Hamerik - Symphony no. 6, op. 38 "Symphonie spirituelle" (1)
Haydn - Piano Trio no. 39 "Gypsy" (1)
Haydn - Symphony no. 92 "Oxford" (1)
Respighi - Suite for String Orchestra and Organ (1)
Schubert - Piano Sonata, D 894 (2)
Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 6 in G major, op. 62 (1)
Shostakovich - Prelude & Fugue no. 3 (Preludes and Fugues, op. 87) (1)
 
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