What works are you learning?

I'm working right now on:
Chopin's Ballade no.2 (hard. Very hard for me )
Rachmaninov Prelude op.23-4
Rachmaninov Prelude op.23-5 (I want to record it soon)
An relatively easy Sibelius Etude (will record it soon)

 

Well,I am now working on quite a few things:

-Hindemith sonata for Tuba and piano for a concert in November
-reviewing the program from my first recital for DMA auditions
-working on pieces by Michael Daugherty,William Bolcom, Carter Pann and others for my 2nd recital in march
-learning Schumann Piano Concerto for performance in November 2008

 

Any Hindemith sonata is a bitch. 'Scuse my language. :lol: But it's true! I'm familiar with the trumpet and trombone ones. They're not "accompaniment" in the strict sense - they're really double sonatas.

Good luck to you.

 

On the music stand now are:

- Medtner's Fairy Tales op 26 no 1 and op 51 no 3 - both delightful pieces that I might actually be able to play some time soon
- Dvorak's D minor impromptu B129 - the middle section is something really special
- Beethoven Op 101 - been trying to play this for the best part of 40 years. Maybe this time ...

 

-Chopin's Ballade Opus 23. So beautiful, yet so hard!
-Chopin's Waltz "Minute". Used to know how to play this one, but I kind of neglected this masterpiece.
-At the moment I'm also polishing the Heroic Polonaise Opus 53. I'll record it once I manage to play it flawlessly.

 

Chopin lover? :lol:

 

I'm Polish! All I ever listen to, and all I ever play is Chopin! :wink:

 

Pole-made-Dutchie, huh? :lol: I'm not far removed from being a Chopin exclusivist. I've been obsessed with him for a good many years. I know all Chopin (not by any means to say that I play all Chopin), but very little else.

 

- Liszt's "Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude". First the RH seizes up. Then the LH. Then the RH again. All this in one piece!

- Beethoven Op 26. Well, gave the Op 101 a run. Try one of the easier ones this time.

- Tschaikowsky Op 39. Bought in an Oxfam shop for 60p. Cheap at half the price, and even better value than IMSLP. May UE's entire stock be infested by booklice!

 

Right now I'm not working on a whole lot:

Chopin Etude 10/7
Scarlatti Sonata in A Major (I'm blanking on which one it is! AHH how embarrassing well.... it's the one horowitz made famous?)
Prokofiev's 3rd piano concerto

I'm sort of working on La Campanella on and off, so as to play it at a couple competitions 2 years from now when I'm a senior, and maybe for college auditions too.

Also, I'll be going back to the Chopin scherzo and Prokofiev sonata movement that I have recordings of on here soon, as I'll be playing them with the scarlatti at a recital in december, and then in competitions in January, February, (probably/if I win in January) March, and April...

 

I've been polishing these pieces and I hope to have the 'audition room' quality versions soon!

Still, I appreciate any and all comments.

Thanks,
Pete

 

Thanks for listening! I like the moth analogy, if only I could get all the notes AND bring out the mothiness. Then it would be right. Another day...

Pete

 

i am trying to learn Robert Schumann's Carnaval
but only 2nd (Pierrot), 3rd (Arlequin) and 4th (Valse noble), maybe i will add some soon, but who has time
and also Beethovens Sonata No.5

 

These are certainly 'Audition Room Quality' already - whatever that is... But it would be the day that I would not find anything to nag about

The no.10 is very good but a bit too casual, not all the notes come out with crystalline clarity as I think they should.

In the no.22 (always one of my favourites as it is very effective and not too difficult) you get carried away a bit, slipping more than you need to. Rge RH does not get heard properly above the LH tumult. This would probably improve with a bit more discipline and a weightier RH attack - I find it also a bit casual.

 

Thinking...

 

Chopin Nocturne in C sharp Minor opus posth.

 

*Bach - inventionen

*Mozart - sonata

*Poulenc - sonata for four hands

*(Rachmaninov - prelude in cis sharp)

*(Bizet - carmen ouverture - arranged for one piano, six hands)

*And a lot of Berens-etudes/Czerny-etudes

 

Beethoven Op. 10, 1-3

Brahms, either the Handel Variations or the Original Theme Variations Op. 21, No. 1

 

Hi i'm new to this forum.

Anyway this is what i've been working on for my ARCT performance exam next june and other recitals and competitions.

Pieces that I have finished ( used for previous competitions ) and am maintaning for exam/recitals/competitions

J.S Bach: Partita No.2 (Sinfonia)

Haydn Piano Sonata in E flat major Hob.XVI/49;L/59

Beethoven: Sonata in A major Op.2 No.2 (1st and 3rd movement)

Chopin Etude in F major Op.10 No.8

Rachmanininoff: Prelude in g sharp minor Op.32 No.12

Pieces that I am finishing off for exam/recitals/competitions

Beethoven: Sonata in A major Op.2 No.2 (3rd and 4th movement )

Mendelssohn: Rondo Cappriccioso op.14

Prokofiev: Visions Fugatives No.3, 7, 8 and 10

Chopin Etude in c sharp minor Op.10 No.4

Chopin Etude in G flat major Op.10 No.5 “Black Key”

Schumann Piano Concerto in a minor Op.54 ( All movements)

Pieces that I finished off beginning of this year-May and may bring back in the future

Mozart: Sonata in c minor K457

Chopin: Preludes op.28 no.3,11,13,23 (not including this one)

Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G major op.32 no.5