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Piano Board => Performance => Topic started by: presto agitato on November 16, 2005, 01:19:32 AM
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What do you think of this program:
Mendelssohn - Fantasy in A minor Op 16-1
Liszt - Soneto del Petrarca 123
Brahms - Intermezzo in A minor Op 76-7
Brahms - Intermezzo in A major Op 118-2
Michael Nyman - The Heart Asks Pleasure First
Encore: Louis Moreau Gottschalk - Souvenirs d'Andalousie
Comments? Suggestions?
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some might enjoy it just the way it is. personally, i don't like to see mendelssohn and liszt so close. it's like a kiss and slap. people tend to like both extremes, but with brahms after wards - you've got kiss, slap, kiss, kiss, handshake, stomp. as i see it, you should have kiss, kiss, kiss (mendelssohn, brahms - transition from one a minor piece to another might be ok? then A major - 2nd intermezzo) then the nyman as a sort of transition, then liszt's soneto del petrarca and whatever encore you decide.
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schumann wrote some fugues based on the letters of bach's name (Bb, A, C B-natural) that might fit well between the mendelssohn and brahms? don't know how soon you have to play. you'd then have a fantasy AND fugue for whatever it's worth. you can hear it here (click on the headset) www.virtuallybaroque.com/concert9.htm (fugue 2, op. 60)
you know bach could tie this whole recital together - as liszt also wrote a fantasy and fugue on BACH. martha argerich plays this (as well as a whole list of other stuff)
www.rtsi.ch/trasm/argerich/welcome.cfm?lng=1&ids=493&idc=3065 for a listen you wouldn't have to play the liszt, but you could mention this in your program - or speak it - to tie things together.