Petroc Trelawny's Classical Music Puzzle Book

Petroc Trelawny is one of the best-known voices on BBC Radio Three - where after fourteen years presenting the daily Breakfast programme, he now hosts In Tune. He was part of the commentary team for BBC Television’s coverage of the Coronation of King Charles III and the funeral of Her Majesty The Queen. He has presented BBC Proms on radio and television for twenty-five years and introduces the annual live BBC broadcast of the Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Day Concert. In 2023 he hosted BBC Television’s ‘Cardiff Singer of the World’ for the thirteenth time.  He has presented the international telecast of Eurovision Young Musician to more than two dozen countries from Edinburgh and hosted Eurovision Choir live from Gothenburg. He presents performances by the Royal Ballet shown in cinemas around the world, and anchors note-by-note coverage of the Leeds Piano Competition for Medici.tv.  In 2015 he hosted the first ever BBC Proms Australia, a week of concerts and recitals in Melbourne broadcast live on ABC Radio; he has also twice hosted BBC Proms Dubai at the new Dubai Opera House. Petroc is also a frequent contributor ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ (BBC Radio 4), he has written on travel, music and the arts for publications including The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator and Radio Times.  Raised in west Cornwall, his early career includes broadcasting in Hong Kong for the British Forces Broadcasting Service, being part of the launch team for Classic FM and London News Radio, presenting breakfast on BBC Radio Manchester, and working as a presenter for RTE in Ireland.  He is President of the Lennox Berkeley Society, Luton Music and the Three Spires Singers. As well as classical music he loves books, travel, food and wine, cinema and theatre. He is a Trustee of the Hall for Cornwall, Truro and a member of English Heritage’s Blue Plaque panel. Dr Gareth Moore is the author of over 200 puzzle and brain-training titles for both children and adults, including The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book (Trapeze), Enigma: Crack the Code (Michael O’Mara) and The Penguin Book of Puzzles (Michael Joseph). His books have sold in excess of 5 million copies in the UK alone, and have been published in over 35 different languages. He is also a director of the World Puzzle Federation, which oversees the World Puzzle Championships, and a director of the UK Puzzle Association. Find him online at DrGarethMoore.com.Laura Jayne Ayres is a puzzle writer and author. She studied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, and is also a published playwright. Books that she has worked on include: The Whodunnit Puzzle Book, Spydle, The Fantasy Puzzle Book, Meowdle and 'Twas The Murder Before Christmas.

• IntroductionUKWilliam Byrd – Mass for Five Voices (c.1540-1623)Henry Purcell – King Arthur (1659-1695)Edward Elgar – Piano Quintet (1857-1934)*Ethel Smyth – The Wreckers (1858-1944)Gustav Holst – Hammersmith (1874-1934)**Samuel Coleridge Taylor – The Song of Hiawatha (1875-1912)Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony No 3 Pastoral (1872-1958)*Grace Williams – Penillion (1906-1977)*Imogen Holst – Suite for Solo Viola (1907-1984)Benjamin Britten – Night Mail (1913-1976)*Doreen Carwithen – One Damn Thing After Another (1922-2003)*/**Errolyn Wallen   TBA (b. 1958)Thomas Adès – The Tempest / Arcadiana? (b.1971)RussiaPiotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker (1840-1893)Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade (1844-1908)Dmitri Shostakovich – Moscow Cheryomushk (1906-1975)United States*Amy Beach TBA (1867-1944)Charles Ives – Three Places in New England (1874-1954)*/**Florence Price – Symphony No.1 in E minor (1887-1953)**William Grant Still – Symphony No.1 Afro-American (1895-1978)Aaron Copland – Appalachian Spring (1900-1990)*Ruth Crawford Seeger – Three Songs to poems by Carl Sandburg (1901-1953)Elliott Carter Epigrams (1908-2012)Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings (1910-1981)John Cage – 4’33” (1912-1992)Steve Reich – Different Trains (b.1936)*Jennifer Higdon – Scenes from the Poet’s Dreams (b.1962)Germany/Austria *Hildegard of Bingen – Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum (1098-1179)Johann Sebastian Bach – Coffee Cantata (1685-1750)Franz Joseph Haydn –Symphony No.45 in F sharp minor Farewell (1732-1809)*Mariana Martines – Il primo amore (1744-1812)Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Abduction from the Seraglio (1756-1791)Beethoven – Piano Sonata No.14 Moonlight (1770-1827)Carl Maria von Weber – Oberon. (1786-1826)Franz Schubert – Winterreise (1797-1828)Felix Mendelssohn – Elijah (1809-1847)Robert Schumann – Liederkreis (1810-1856)Franz Liszt – Nuages gris (1811-1886)Richard Wagner – Siegfried Idyll (1813-1883)*Clara Schumann – Piano Trio in G minor (1819-1896)Johannes Brahms – Double Concerto in A minor (1833-1897)Gustav Mahler – Symphony No.3 (1860-1911)Richard Strauss – Oboe Concerto (1864-1949)*Johanna Senfter  TBA (1871-1961)Arnold Schoenberg – Pierrot Lunaire (1874-1951)Karlheinz Stockhausen - Helikopter-Streichquartett  (1928-2007)Central EuropeAntonín Dvořák – Cello Concerto (1841-1904)Leoš Janáček – String Quartet No.2 Intimate Letter (1854-1928)Bela Bartók – Piano Concerto No.3 (1881-1945)France*Élizabeth Jacquet de La Guerre TBA 1665-1729)**Josef Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges – Aline et Dupré (1745-1799)Hector Berlioz – Symphonie fantastique (1803-1869)Camille Saint-Saëns – Symphony No.3 Organ Symphony (1835-1921)*Cecile Chaminade – Automne (1857-1944)Claude Debussy – La Mer (1862-1918)Maurice Ravel – Concerto for the Left Hand (1875-1937)*Lili Boulanger – D’un matin de printemps (1893-1918)ItalyClaudio Monteverdi – L’Orfeo (1567-1643)*Barbara Strozzi – Che si può fare (1619-1677)Antonio Vivaldi – L’estro harmonico (1678-1741)Giuseppe Verdi – String Quartet (1813-1901)Giacomo Puccini – Il trittico (1858-1924)Carlo Gesualdo. TBA (1566-1613)Nordic Lands Jean Sibelius – Lemminkäinen Suite (1865-1957)*Elfrida Andrée - TBA (1841-1929)Edvard Grieg – Piano Concerto in A minor (1843-1907)Einojuhani Rautavaara – Cantus Arcticus (1928-2016)*Kaija Saariaho – L’ amour de loin (1952-2023)Classical Music’s New World*Chiquinha Gonzaga (Brazil) TBA (1847-1935)Heitor Villa-Lobos (Brazil) – Bachianas Brasileiras (1887-1959)*Peggy Glanville-Hicks (Australia) – Etruscan Concerto (1912-1990)**Tōru Takemitsu (Japan)– Black Rain (1930-1996)**Tan Dun (China) – Marco Polo (b.1957)*/**Unsuk Chin (S Korea)– Alice in Wonderland (b.1961)Brett Dean (Australia) – Hamlet  The ExilesGeorge Frideric Handel – Messiah (1685-1759)Frédéric Chopin – Polonaise fantaisie (1810-1849)Sergei Rachmaninov – Symphonic Dances (1873-1943)Igor Stravinsky – Le sacre du printemps (1882-1971)Sergei Prokofiev – Overture on Hebrew Themes (1891-1953)*Female composers (22/80)**Global Majority (8/80)AcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorIndex

'This is a beautiful publication from Ivy Press, the left-hand pages each devoted to composers ranging from Hildegard of Bingen coming through 900 years until the present day, and there are five sections: vocal, stage, orchestral, concertos, instrumental. Each tells of a particular work, accompanied by fascinating visuals which are certainly not the usual suspects.'