Soundtrack: The Science of Musicality
So, just in case anyone wanted way too much information regarding the music I mentioned in the story, here it is!
In order of when they're mentioned in the story:
Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata (Claudio Arrau), Op. 53: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL0JLNt_3EE
Free downloadable: http://archive.org/details/Beethovens_Sonata_No_21_in_C_Major-Waldstein-2884
Nigel Kennedy’s Four Seasons (Vivaldi), Summer: (pt 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iJ40CeY7y4
(pt 2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EbJchwSouA
(pt 3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuF4oYRktcA
Not Nigel Kennedy, but the Four Seasons, free downloadable: http://archive.org/details/Vivaldi-The_Four_Seasons
Paganini’s 24th Caprice (Itzhak Perlman): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmRs-Yrbo_w
Not the same thing (the Rach-Pag variations, which are what John plays) but close, played by the composer (Rach, not Pag): http://archive.org/details/Rachmaninoff-PaganiniRhapsodyrachmaninoff
Bach A minor violin concerto (Isaac Stern): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P8Nd8GeP2w
Weirdly enough, there’s no free version, so here’s the E major concerto instead: http://archive.org/details/BachViolinCtoNo2InEpoppenRilling
For the record, the conductor on that recording (Helmut Rilling) knows everything about Bach, ever.
Penderecki Violin Concerto No. 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBMI64Fwq_A
This is not the Penderecki violin concerto, but it is his most famous piece and kind of representative of his oeuvre: http://archive.org/details/Krzystzof_Penderecki_-_Threnody_for_the_Victims_of_Hiroshima_for_52_strings
Paul Schoenfield’s Cafe Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDa683Y780
Yeah, no free version. Sorry.
Chopin, Ballade No. 1, G minor (Martha Argerich): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKKy383RVI4
This is not the best performance available on the Free Music Archive but it is the best recording: http://archive.org/details/BalladeNo.1InGMinorOp.23anievas
Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, 18th Variation (you probably recognize it from Groundhog Day):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2vHA67l_0c
The full Rach-Pag variations (Rubenstein/Chicago/Reiner): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49dEdhsNpKE
Have a 2nd recording; it’s so fantastic I’m including it anyway:
http://archive.org/details/RachmaninoffRhapsodyOnAThemeOfPaganiniwildHorenstein
Fugue (there’s a prelude, but John just plays the fugue) in Bb Minor, No. 22, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, J.S. Bach: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmqD0Qhf2GI
This is not brilliant but, hey, free/legal: http://archive.org/details/Bach_Well-Tempered_Clavier_BOOK_ONE
(I’m not putting “Don’t Stop Believin’” in here. If you don’t know the song, well, I’m sorry.)
Prokofiev’s Suggestion Diabolique, Op. 4 No. 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45mXvaIW02c
No free/legal download version, but have the March from The Love of Three Oranges for violin and piano instead, which is not at all the same thing: http://archive.org/details/ProkofievLoveFor3OrangesMarchshaham
Debussy:
Clair de Lune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ip64cG7gK4
http://archive.org/details/DebussyClairDeLuneciccolini
Reverie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1k3PF8bupg
http://archive.org/details/Ravel-DebussyPianoPieces
(the latter is not brilliant but it’s the piece. Also I love the Ravel Pavane.)
L’Isle Joyeuse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeBZT5_iEeA
http://archive.org/details/ClaudeDebussySergeySchepkinPreludesBookIImagesFirstSeries
(Lots of other awesome stuff in there.)
A representative piece of Bach’s solo violin music (okay, not really, but Sherlock was definitely playing part of this): the Chaconne, from the Partita in D minor (Stern):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zvRWFD_1_M
Here is not even remotely the same piece at all (the Sarabande from the 1st Partita) by an entirely different violinist, but Ricci’s pretty good.
http://archive.org/details/SarabandeFromViolinPartitaNo.1ricci
Here’s a Kreutzer etude:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCB77tWk7dg
You don’t really want a downloadable recording of a violin etude.
Mercury, from Holst’s Planets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkiiAloL6aE
And all of them: http://archive.org/details/Holst-ThePlanets
Sherlock and John’s Recital Program:
Chopin, Nocturnes:
No. 1 (without violin because I can’t find it): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtIW2r1EalM
(can’t find a downloadable piano version, sorry)
No. 2 (with added violin!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOlF3tJLTUs
http://archive.org/details/VrsAcoustics-74052-MischaElman (scratchy)
http://archive.org/details/jamendo-103894 (piano only and I hate the reverb)
http://archive.org/details/NocturneInE-flat (piano only; less scratchy but still a 78 transfer)
I expect that Sherlock’s Morceau sounds a little like this, although not really:
(Poulenc, Violin Sonata) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOa2Vgq66gw
Free: http://archive.org/details/PoulencSonataForViolinAndPianoByXeniaAkeynikova
Finzi Elegy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_qKAin4kqI
(no downloadable)
Shostakovich Violin Sonata, Op. 134: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTP0sBYg0bc
(no downloadable)
Piano Four Hands/Duet Pieces:
Debussy Petite Suite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGHFNGyXll0
(1st mvt only) http://archive.org/details/EnBateau_473 (Mediocre, as it says)
Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv4bWqHf-q8
http://archive.org/details/HungarianDanceNo.5InF-sharpMinorbrendelKlien
Milhaud’s Scaramouche (2 pianos): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk_sVJZJ9v4
(sorry, no downloadable)
Faure’s Dolly Suite (4 mvts out of 6): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGkFmPHdRI
Faure’s greatest hits, including an orchestrated Dolly Suite: http://archive.org/details/GabrielUrbainFaur
Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp1DH9--vGo
(no downloadable)
Back to the story:
Tchaikovsky violin concerto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec7ffTiSMs8
or to download: http://archive.org/details/ViolinConcertoInDOp.35I.AllegroModeratosternOrmandy (1/3)
(no 2nd movement of Stern/Ormandy, sorry)
http://archive.org/details/ViolinConcertoInDOp.35Iii.AllegroVivacissimosternOrmandy_214 (3/3)
Ravel’s Tzigane (Joshua Bell): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS2pkCL8HZo
(alas, no downloadable)
Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 5, Op. 24 (“Spring”) (Oistrakh): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0pIO4zq_1w (1/3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp-FwuvNBag (2/3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orzsip5WcpA (3/3)
downloadable: http://archive.org/details/beethoven_violin_sonata_op_24
Suzuki violin duets sound like this, when performed by those who should be playing them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHbnmzrsPi4
“the damn Canon” (Pachelbel): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7RsqGaaPos
http://archive.org/details/Selections_Fall_2011-10450 (track 2, 3 violins and continuo instead of string quartet)
Moriarty obviously hasn’t actually composed any music but I expect he sounds somewhat like John Cage, only more so. Here’s a random representative sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0BNsBlzQII (okay, not random: Imaginary Landscapes No. 4, for 12 Radios and 24 Performers)
A completely different piece (one7): http://archive.org/details/JohnCage-One7
Here’s the first movement of the Mozart oboe quartet, performed by one of the greatest oboe players ever (John Ferrillo). It’s included here just to show you of the finest that the oboe can do, to make up for the oboe jokes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAc2t0r9ZyU
And here’s an entirely different piece (the Marcello oboe concerto) played by someone I don’t know, but also a good oboe piece: http://archive.org/details/jam2009-03-20.jam2009-03-20
False harmonics sound like this (a.k.a. ‘screeching, not quite in tune’): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUDNQfePKlQ
Berlioz (‘damnation and hellfire’: it’s a joke, but the man does it like no one else. Here’s a sample: the March to the Scaffold, from the Symphonie Fantastique. Read the description): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIUPHL-BMZU
http://archive.org/details/BerliozSymphonieFantastiquecluytens (whole thing)
The encore piece, Dvorak’s Slavonic Dance, Op. 46, No. 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi0U6a5c_C4
http://archive.org/details/SlavonicDanceInGOp.46No.8brendelKlien
… I think that’s everything! Oy. Hope you enjoyed!
In order of when they're mentioned in the story:
Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata (Claudio Arrau), Op. 53: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL0JLNt_3EE
Free downloadable: http://archive.org/details/Beethovens_Sonata_No_21_in_C_Major-Waldstein-2884
Nigel Kennedy’s Four Seasons (Vivaldi), Summer: (pt 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iJ40CeY7y4
(pt 2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EbJchwSouA
(pt 3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuF4oYRktcA
Not Nigel Kennedy, but the Four Seasons, free downloadable: http://archive.org/details/Vivaldi-The_Four_Seasons
Paganini’s 24th Caprice (Itzhak Perlman): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmRs-Yrbo_w
Not the same thing (the Rach-Pag variations, which are what John plays) but close, played by the composer (Rach, not Pag): http://archive.org/details/Rachmaninoff-PaganiniRhapsodyrachmaninoff
Bach A minor violin concerto (Isaac Stern): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P8Nd8GeP2w
Weirdly enough, there’s no free version, so here’s the E major concerto instead: http://archive.org/details/BachViolinCtoNo2InEpoppenRilling
For the record, the conductor on that recording (Helmut Rilling) knows everything about Bach, ever.
Penderecki Violin Concerto No. 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBMI64Fwq_A
This is not the Penderecki violin concerto, but it is his most famous piece and kind of representative of his oeuvre: http://archive.org/details/Krzystzof_Penderecki_-_Threnody_for_the_Victims_of_Hiroshima_for_52_strings
Paul Schoenfield’s Cafe Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDa683Y780
Yeah, no free version. Sorry.
Chopin, Ballade No. 1, G minor (Martha Argerich): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKKy383RVI4
This is not the best performance available on the Free Music Archive but it is the best recording: http://archive.org/details/BalladeNo.1InGMinorOp.23anievas
Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, 18th Variation (you probably recognize it from Groundhog Day):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2vHA67l_0c
The full Rach-Pag variations (Rubenstein/Chicago/Reiner): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49dEdhsNpKE
Have a 2nd recording; it’s so fantastic I’m including it anyway:
http://archive.org/details/RachmaninoffRhapsodyOnAThemeOfPaganiniwildHorenstein
Fugue (there’s a prelude, but John just plays the fugue) in Bb Minor, No. 22, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, J.S. Bach: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmqD0Qhf2GI
This is not brilliant but, hey, free/legal: http://archive.org/details/Bach_Well-Tempered_Clavier_BOOK_ONE
(I’m not putting “Don’t Stop Believin’” in here. If you don’t know the song, well, I’m sorry.)
Prokofiev’s Suggestion Diabolique, Op. 4 No. 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45mXvaIW02c
No free/legal download version, but have the March from The Love of Three Oranges for violin and piano instead, which is not at all the same thing: http://archive.org/details/ProkofievLoveFor3OrangesMarchshaham
Debussy:
Clair de Lune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ip64cG7gK4
http://archive.org/details/DebussyClairDeLuneciccolini
Reverie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1k3PF8bupg
http://archive.org/details/Ravel-DebussyPianoPieces
(the latter is not brilliant but it’s the piece. Also I love the Ravel Pavane.)
L’Isle Joyeuse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeBZT5_iEeA
http://archive.org/details/ClaudeDebussySergeySchepkinPreludesBookIImagesFirstSeries
(Lots of other awesome stuff in there.)
A representative piece of Bach’s solo violin music (okay, not really, but Sherlock was definitely playing part of this): the Chaconne, from the Partita in D minor (Stern):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zvRWFD_1_M
Here is not even remotely the same piece at all (the Sarabande from the 1st Partita) by an entirely different violinist, but Ricci’s pretty good.
http://archive.org/details/SarabandeFromViolinPartitaNo.1ricci
Here’s a Kreutzer etude:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCB77tWk7dg
You don’t really want a downloadable recording of a violin etude.
Mercury, from Holst’s Planets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkiiAloL6aE
And all of them: http://archive.org/details/Holst-ThePlanets
Sherlock and John’s Recital Program:
Chopin, Nocturnes:
No. 1 (without violin because I can’t find it): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtIW2r1EalM
(can’t find a downloadable piano version, sorry)
No. 2 (with added violin!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOlF3tJLTUs
http://archive.org/details/VrsAcoustics-74052-MischaElman (scratchy)
http://archive.org/details/jamendo-103894 (piano only and I hate the reverb)
http://archive.org/details/NocturneInE-flat (piano only; less scratchy but still a 78 transfer)
I expect that Sherlock’s Morceau sounds a little like this, although not really:
(Poulenc, Violin Sonata) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOa2Vgq66gw
Free: http://archive.org/details/PoulencSonataForViolinAndPianoByXeniaAkeynikova
Finzi Elegy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_qKAin4kqI
(no downloadable)
Shostakovich Violin Sonata, Op. 134: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTP0sBYg0bc
(no downloadable)
Piano Four Hands/Duet Pieces:
Debussy Petite Suite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGHFNGyXll0
(1st mvt only) http://archive.org/details/EnBateau_473 (Mediocre, as it says)
Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv4bWqHf-q8
http://archive.org/details/HungarianDanceNo.5InF-sharpMinorbrendelKlien
Milhaud’s Scaramouche (2 pianos): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk_sVJZJ9v4
(sorry, no downloadable)
Faure’s Dolly Suite (4 mvts out of 6): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGkFmPHdRI
Faure’s greatest hits, including an orchestrated Dolly Suite: http://archive.org/details/GabrielUrbainFaur
Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp1DH9--vGo
(no downloadable)
Back to the story:
Tchaikovsky violin concerto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec7ffTiSMs8
or to download: http://archive.org/details/ViolinConcertoInDOp.35I.AllegroModeratosternOrmandy (1/3)
(no 2nd movement of Stern/Ormandy, sorry)
http://archive.org/details/ViolinConcertoInDOp.35Iii.AllegroVivacissimosternOrmandy_214 (3/3)
Ravel’s Tzigane (Joshua Bell): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS2pkCL8HZo
(alas, no downloadable)
Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 5, Op. 24 (“Spring”) (Oistrakh): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0pIO4zq_1w (1/3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp-FwuvNBag (2/3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orzsip5WcpA (3/3)
downloadable: http://archive.org/details/beethoven_violin_sonata_op_24
Suzuki violin duets sound like this, when performed by those who should be playing them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHbnmzrsPi4
“the damn Canon” (Pachelbel): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7RsqGaaPos
http://archive.org/details/Selections_Fall_2011-10450 (track 2, 3 violins and continuo instead of string quartet)
Moriarty obviously hasn’t actually composed any music but I expect he sounds somewhat like John Cage, only more so. Here’s a random representative sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0BNsBlzQII (okay, not random: Imaginary Landscapes No. 4, for 12 Radios and 24 Performers)
A completely different piece (one7): http://archive.org/details/JohnCage-One7
Here’s the first movement of the Mozart oboe quartet, performed by one of the greatest oboe players ever (John Ferrillo). It’s included here just to show you of the finest that the oboe can do, to make up for the oboe jokes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAc2t0r9ZyU
And here’s an entirely different piece (the Marcello oboe concerto) played by someone I don’t know, but also a good oboe piece: http://archive.org/details/jam2009-03-20.jam2009-03-20
False harmonics sound like this (a.k.a. ‘screeching, not quite in tune’): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUDNQfePKlQ
Berlioz (‘damnation and hellfire’: it’s a joke, but the man does it like no one else. Here’s a sample: the March to the Scaffold, from the Symphonie Fantastique. Read the description): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIUPHL-BMZU
http://archive.org/details/BerliozSymphonieFantastiquecluytens (whole thing)
The encore piece, Dvorak’s Slavonic Dance, Op. 46, No. 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi0U6a5c_C4
http://archive.org/details/SlavonicDanceInGOp.46No.8brendelKlien
… I think that’s everything! Oy. Hope you enjoyed!