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Offline kaiwin

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4 Hands One Piano (With or without orchestra)
on: September 26, 2005, 02:32:25 AM
Anyone recommend a good piece for 4 Hands One Piano? With orchestra or without is fine. Need recommendations. Thanks!

Offline Souza

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Re: 4 Hands One Piano (With or without orchestra)
Reply #1 on: September 26, 2005, 06:03:00 AM
Anyone recommend a good piece for 4 Hands One Piano? With orchestra or without is fine. Need recommendations. Thanks!

Schubert Fantasia in F Minor, op 103 (D940) -

Emil Gilels and his daughter Elena Gilels recorded at Great Pianists of 20th century.

Sheet music download at https://www.sheetmusicarchive.net/single_listing.cfm?composer_id=13

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Offline mlsmithz

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Re: 4 Hands One Piano (With or without orchestra)
Reply #2 on: September 26, 2005, 06:15:49 AM
It's a bit on the light side perhaps, but Debussy's 'Petite Suite' is a charming collection of pieces for four hands.  Not sure if the sheet music is available online, though.

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Re: 4 Hands One Piano (With or without orchestra)
Reply #3 on: September 26, 2005, 06:40:02 AM
Ravel - Rhapsodie Espagnole
Liszt - Mephisto Waltz

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Re: 4 Hands One Piano (With or without orchestra)
Reply #4 on: September 26, 2005, 11:14:10 AM
Liszt - Mephisto Waltz

MEPHISTO WALTZ FOR FOUR HANDS AND ONE PIANO??? WHERE???

Gotta have.  ;D

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Re: 4 Hands One Piano (With or without orchestra)
Reply #5 on: September 26, 2005, 01:57:16 PM
Peer Gynt \o/.

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Re: 4 Hands One Piano (With or without orchestra)
Reply #6 on: September 26, 2005, 02:14:44 PM
Some of my favorites:

Mendelssohn - Intermezzo and Nocturne from a Midsummer's Night Dream
Debussy - Suite for Piano Duet (mentioned already, charming pieces)
Godowsky -  Some of the Suite of Miniatures for Piano Duet
Schubert - Polonaise D minor Polonaise
Khachaturian/Kondratiev - Waltz from Masquerade
Alkan - Don Giovanni Fantasy
"The best discourse upon music is silence" - Schumann

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Re: 4 Hands One Piano (With or without orchestra)
Reply #7 on: September 26, 2005, 06:49:14 PM
The search function turned up this thread:

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,2428.0.html

I think most everything is there!  :)

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Re: 4 Hands One Piano (With or without orchestra)
Reply #8 on: September 26, 2005, 07:01:34 PM
Thanx,
which ones are like able to be performed with a professional orchestra or greatly is interesting to perform with many people?

Thanks again!

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Re: 4 Hands One Piano (With or without orchestra)
Reply #9 on: September 27, 2005, 05:12:01 AM
Anyone recommend a good piece for 4 Hands One Piano? With orchestra or without is fine. Need recommendations. Thanks!

Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand.

Oops.  That's 3 hands ........ sorry!

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Re: 4 Hands One Piano (With or without orchestra)
Reply #10 on: September 27, 2005, 05:39:37 AM
MEPHISTO WALTZ FOR FOUR HANDS AND ONE PIANO??? WHERE???

Gotta have.  ;D

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Re: 4 Hands One Piano (With or without orchestra)
Reply #11 on: September 27, 2005, 11:41:50 AM
If anyone knows exactly where to get Mephisto Waltz for 4 hands, I would greatly appreciate it.

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Re: 4 Hands One Piano (With or without orchestra)
Reply #12 on: September 28, 2005, 10:21:30 AM
Dvorak - Slavonic Dances (4 hand-piano)
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