What works are you learning?

Yikes. Schoenberg. *scared*

Currently polishing stuff for conservatory exams.
Bach c minor P&F,
Mozart K333 1st movement,
Chopets 10-4 and 10-12,
Rachmaninoff Etude-Tableaux 33-7 (Yay for the -Tableaux in the title...),
Dvorak Poetic Mood no. 3,
Prokofiev 3rd sonata.

Working on this very selection since, what, July? I'm slowly starting to get sick of the Mozart and Dvorak, specifically...

3 weeks to go. :roll:

 

you've have been working on these few pieces since July. seriously if I worked on only one movement of 1 sonata for 6 plus months I would be dead by now, from borderm and my teacher would drop me. usually within 6 months i'm expected to finish learning a complete sonata, memorized and perfected, most of the time my teacher will ask me to carry on practising i so that I can use it for competitions, recitals etc.

commonly i'm always expected to no matter what, start on the last 2 movements of a sonata after learning the 1st movement for 2 weeks.

The same goes for any of my other pieces except Bach and as for etudes i'm expected to learn a minimum of 12 every 6 months now. LOL

and i'm not even in a music consevatory yet

just curious, which consevatory are you going to? because even for the one that i'm going to study at back in singapore requires all sonatas to be played complete and just for my dip exam here in canada i've to meet these requirements.

1 Bach concert piece/prelude and fugue
1 complete classical sonata
1 18th C piece
1 early 20th C piece
1 20th C piece
1 concert etude

are you in pianoworld or pianostreet? i'm pretty sure i've seen you somewhere

 

Yep, pianostreet, getting gradually appaled by that place.

Actually, July is the time I started working on the Prokofiev, the rest followed later... I was also completely out of circuit for September and half of October - two weeks away in Greece, the restdowned with mild tendonitis - so the rest of October was spent getting back to where I was in the summer (which, in turn, included several weeks away from any piano whatsoever). My practice is also heavily school-impaired, as I'm in the final year of high school, plus there's composition (ugh! Time-consuming) I'm applying to as well...
Piano-wise, not a good half-year.

Applying to Prague cons., piano and composition. (Finished a prelude and fugue for three brass instruments yesterday... Yay!)

 

That is 2 per month! :shock:

Well, I suppose it´s not Ligeti etudes then? :lol: But 2 etudes pr month must be very healthy!

 

Pianogeek: I agree, the last year of high school combined with music is torture and very tough espeially when you're going into composition as well.

mikkeljs: that's my rough dateline that my teacher gave me, she's not going to kill me if I don't make it. haha but anyway working on the chopin etude op.10 no.4 now I can see that i'm starting to learn harder pieces faster. It's the toughest piece i have in my hands now and I have been working on it only for a month and it's up to speed, with mistakes of course. Anyway, I won't learn 2 a month, rather i'll do what my teacher did, work on a few at the same time.

 

"IMO" comes in handy for highly punctuated opining. :lol:

 

Repertoire for the semester:

Chopin etude in E major, Op. 10 No. 3 (this is a revisit)
Bach partita in E minor - Gigue
Shostakovich...I was going to do the Op. 87 No. 2 prelude and fugue in A minor, but I was playing through some stuff for my teacher, who is not familiar with a great deal of Shostakovich (she's only done the Fantastic Dances), and I played for her the 87/16 prelude in b-flat minor, and told her I had decided not to do it because the fugue is too long and tedious, and I also played for her a few standalone preludes from Op. 34, and she really loved numbers 6 and 24...so she decided I should do 3 preludes instead of the prelude and fugue I had in mind. So, the prelude only from 87/16, and also 34/6 in b minor and 34/24 in D.

I will probably do the 87/2 in the future and also the fugue from the 87/16. Just not right now.

 

still trying to find piano accompaniment for Mozart, violinconcerto no. 5...

 

Trying to learn Chopin, pianoconcerto no. 2...

 

I just Finished Learning:

Sonata in C minor, L. 357 by Scarlatti
Waltz in A minor, Op. 12 #2
Rhapsody by Bartok, Gm

I learned those for pre-college auditions, I got a one (the best rating, without winning)! I'm in level D, the youngest in my level.

I'm now learning,

Gypsy Rondo by Haydn ( this is a very fun piece)
Mazurka in G minor by Chopin ( I've had it one week and I've already memorized it)


I wonder if anyone could actually say wether or not I'm a advanced pianist? I've been playing for 6 years, without hearing me? I don't have recording equitment.

 

First, hi! I'm Pierre (everyone calls me Pete) I'm very opinionated and not too shy about it. :lol:

It's impossible to tell your level without hearing you. If it's possible, try to get a low-end MP3 recorder or even any cheap microphone, hooked up to your computer and record yourself that way. The sound won't be Blu-Ray quality but at this point it won't matter.

Keep in touch!

Pete

 

Well, I've been away from the piano for a couple months and my technique has gotten out of shape. So...lots of scales, Hanon, arpeggios, Chopin Etudes and Bach fugues (all pieces I already know) are my daily bread, for now. Can't shoot a technical cannon out a canoe, you know. Base building.

Soon, I'll again begin my quest to learn and record all the Chopin Etudes and the two concertos. My prof and I agreed I would play Chopin's Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor, opus 11 in April 2009 and Concerto No.2 in December of that year. The 1st concerto is a piece I'd learned but had never performed (grrr) due to medical problems. The second concerto, I'm doing a detailed analysis right now, practicing will start this summer.

So I have some time to work stress-free.

I'll post recordings as I make progress on http://www.chopinmusic.net/forum/

Pete

 

Hi and welcome, Piano_girl.

:shock: Is this what I think it is ? If you can play this you are far beyond an 'advanced' pianist. But it seems to sit at odds with the rest of the pieces in your list. Maybe it is a different piece than the one I am thinking of. More details please ?

 

Mr. Techneut, perhaps it is a simplified version arranged by an author of a piano instruction book.

 

I doubt it. The Rhapsody Op.1 is a very long work of insane difficulty, a Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody turbo-propelled into the 20th century. I've actually never heard or played it, just looked at the score and shuddered.
This one is more likely to be the Rhapsody from For Children Book II.

 

Yes, it's from the Children Book II, I'm only in competition level D after all. Though, when my teacher told the other teachers at the competition meeting what I was playing, they were very suprised.

I haven't played aranged works for two years, and I am no longer in piano instruction books.

 

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I see you are in the USA. Unless using a European method like Trinity, here is what a lot of North American teachers use to determine what piece what corresponds to what grade level of playing. You could buy one for about $15 at your local music store:



National Music Certificate Program Piano Syllabus

Publisher's Description :
This resource book detailing the official examination requirements of National Music Certificate Program is essential for teachers preparing students for piano examinations. Students and their parents will also benefit from the information contained in this helpful book.

 

I can imagine that. The For Children sets are not to be sniffed at, it is great and wonderful music. Some of these items are surprisingly difficult, and all require a mature and sensitive musicianship. I would recommend anyone to play and study these (alongside with Bach of course).

 

Actually I am playing pieces out of a syllabus, not that one, but the local IMTA auditions and competitions syllabus. I was wondering if anyone knew what level "D" actually meant?

 

http://www.iamta.org/state.asp?page=IMT ... ns%20Rules
Hi Pianogirl -- Looks like Level D means age 14-15, as well as if you click above link, you can see what other things apply to that level. Just taking a guess that this is what you mean, but I am from way up in Canada, so I don't know about IMTA specifically.