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Title: Fun Pieces
Post by: patseansdad on June 20, 2009, 04:38:24 AM

Any suggestions for pieces that are just downright fun to play??

Lately I find myself caught up in the "classical pianist" mindset where fun is left out, and I am looking for pieces that are fun. I prefer technical difficulty, so harder pieces rather then easy ones are more my style. Any time period.

  Thank you suggestions are much appreciated.

Title: Re: Fun Pieces
Post by: go12_3 on June 20, 2009, 04:59:23 AM

Any Jon Schmidt pieces are enjoyable to play and has technical difficulty.
His website is:  www.jonschmidt.com

best wishes,

go12_3

Title: Re: Fun Pieces
Post by: patseansdad on June 20, 2009, 05:04:44 AM

Thank you, he sounds good but I meant more along the lines of beethoven, chopin, schumann, liszt, etc.. A good example I just picked up is prokofiev's third concerto.

Title: Re: Fun Pieces
Post by: pies on June 20, 2009, 05:28:08 AM

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Title: Re: Fun Pieces
Post by: quantum on June 20, 2009, 05:52:08 AM

Scriabin: Fantasie Op. 28, Sonata #4 Op. 30, Vers La Flame Op. 72

Albinez: Something from Iberia such as Lavapiés (Book 3 No 4)

Kapustin: Concert Etudes Op. 40

Tchaikovsky-Feinberg: Scherzo from Symphony #6

Falla: Fantasia Baetica

Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus - #6 Par Lui tout a été fait

Medtner: Op. 38 No. 3  Danza Festiva

Title: Re: Fun Pieces
Post by: go12_3 on June 20, 2009, 10:04:42 AM

Quote from: patseansdad on June 20, 2009, 05:04:44 AM

Thank you, he sounds good but I meant more along the lines of beethoven, chopin, schumann, liszt, etc.. A good example I just picked up is prokofiev's third concerto.

It was late last night,  sorry that I misread your post.   :-[

Title: Re: Fun Pieces
Post by: tanman on June 20, 2009, 10:47:57 AM

Ravel: Toccata or Alborada

Title: Re: Fun Pieces
Post by: thalbergmad on June 20, 2009, 05:17:30 PM

I have always found a lot of Gottschalk and Moszkowski to be good fun to play.

Thal

Title: Re: Fun Pieces
Post by: weissenberg2 on June 20, 2009, 05:20:31 PM

Mosolov's suite "Turkemenian Nights" looks fun to play since it has a lot of banging. Moszkowski octaves etude in fun to play.

Title: Re: Fun Pieces
Post by: patseansdad on June 21, 2009, 05:03:18 PM

To expand the question a bit more, I would also ask what pieces you guys find the most passionate?

Title: Re: Fun Pieces
Post by: quantum on June 22, 2009, 03:05:35 AM

Quote from: patseansdad on June 21, 2009, 05:03:18 PM

To expand the question a bit more, I would also ask what pieces you guys find the most passionate?

Some re listings from my previous post:

Scriabin: Sonata No. 3 Op. 23, Vers La Flame Op. 72

Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus - #6 Par Lui tout a été fait

Brahms: Op 116, 117, 118, 119 (there are some in there)

Title: Re: Fun Pieces
Post by: point of grace on June 24, 2009, 02:55:12 AM

i was of course thinking about Prokofieff... i had a lot of fun playing a reduction of his 1st symphony, and some pieces of the op. 75... but funny things depends on what you have fun with...

Title: Re: Fun Pieces
Post by: dan101 on June 24, 2009, 07:32:20 PM

Weber's Perpetuum Mobile.

Title: Re: Fun Pieces
Post by: sharon_f on June 25, 2009, 01:13:59 AM

Mendelssohn is always fun. Rondo Capriccioso, Spinning Song from SWW, G minor Piano Concerto.
Some of the Chopin Etudes are wonderful fun. Both G-flats and the F major from Op. 10.
Debussy: Danse, Pour le Piano (glissandi in the Prelude!!!), Feux de Artifice
Ginastera: Suite de Danzas Criollas (second movement has palm-slamming tone clusters and the last movement has time signature changes in almost every other measure, what could be more fun than that!)