Most difficult solo piece IN COMMON REPERTOIRE Second Part (New List)

[presto agitato]

I think Skeptopotamus did not mention a lot of "killer" pieces, so my list is the following:(It is based on the piano syllabus of several major music colleges and universities)

Option 1 - Bach: Goldberg Variations
Option 2 - Barber: Sonata Op 26
Option 3 - Balakirev:  Islamei 
Option 4 - Beethoven: "Hammerklavier"
Option 5 - Boulez: Sonata num 1
Option 6 - Brahms: Sonata Op 5
Option 7 - Brahms: Paganini Variations
Option 8 - Chopin: Sonata Op 58
Option 9 - De Falla:  Fantasia Baetica
Option 10 - Fauré: Variations Op 73
Option 11 - Franck: Prelude, Aria et Finale Op 23
Option 12 - Liszt : Dante Fantasia
Option 13 - Liszt: Sonata in B minor
Option 14 - Mendelssohn: Sonata Op 106
Option 15 - Mussorgsky:  Pictures at an Exhibition
Option 16 - Prokofiev: Sonata Op 84
Option 17 - Prokofiev: Sonata Op 103
Option 18 -  Rachmaninov: Sonata Op 36
Option 19 - Ravel : Gaspard de la Nuit
Option 20 - Schubert : Wanderer Fantasy
Option 21 - Schumann: Carnaval Op 9
Option 22 - Schumann: Fantasy Op 17
Option 23 - Schumann: Symphonische Etüden Op 13
Option 24 - Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze Op 6

Please Vote ¡¡

[thierry13]

There are MANY MANY MANY other killer pieces, that should REALLY, but REALLY not be there as the hardest piece in solo repertoire. And we sticked to technical remember. You can remove many, MANY pieces from this list. We do not speak about the really hard pieces of the repertoire. We spoke of THE hardest. Many doesn't fit in this list. There are really two distinct category in your list : the hard/really hard pieces, and the ones that could be named the hardest.

[thierry13]

hoo by the way for the subject of the other time... nobody took option 11 ... dude, i think .... YOU WERE WRONG  OMG ... i can't believe it 

[pita bread]

Option 11 is hardly standard repertoire.

Option 5 is NOT standard repertoire.

[thierry13]

It is for ... Hamelin ^^

[thierry13]

Dude, you didn't even vote for option 11 ! SO, When I said you you needed to listen to more music, I think NOW you understand why. I will say you exactly what you said me : be a man and accept your error.

[musicsdarkangel]

I'm sorry,

but as hard as the Hammer Klavier is,

it's not nearly as difficult as some of the others.

Liszt Don Juan vs. Hammerklavier?

not close. 

Hammerklavier is longer, and musically challenging (as well as technically of course), but the Don Juan has unreal technical difficulties the whole way throughout, and is always fast. 

Gaspard de la Nuit's movement Ondine difficulties are harder than Hammerklavier, let alone Scarbo.

The Barber sonata is a whole different story.

[thierry13]

I'm sorry,

but as hard as the Hammer Klavier is,

it's not nearly as difficult as some of the others.

Liszt Don Juan vs. Hammerklavier?

not close. 

Hammerklavier is longer, and musically challenging (as well as technically of course), but the Don Juan has unreal technical difficulties the whole way throughout, and is always fast. 

Gaspard de la Nuit's movement Ondine difficulties are harder than Hammerklavier, let alone Scarbo.

The Barber sonata is a whole different story.

I don't see how you can DARE to say him his pieces are far from the hardest. Be a man and accept your errors dark angel !!  (ironic, to be sure)

[musicsdarkangel]

I don't see how you can DARE to say him his pieces are far from the hardest. Be a man and accept your errors dark angel !!  (ironic, to be sure)

don't get me wrong.

His Hammerklavier is very hard, VERY.

Just not as hard as some of the others.

[thierry13]

That was ironic dude, I didn't take you wrong at all  It's only a little inside between me and presto, huh presto  Hammerklavier is very hard, but I agree it's far from some other pieces that he didn't even mention...

[prometheus]

I thought this was a joke because I saw all the "option x" thingies.


So I wanted to scream: "You forgot the Barber sonata."

Too bad...