First full recital, putting together the programme

[jason2711]

Hi, a local library contacted me last friday to do a lunchtime recital on the 17 december.  I've never done a full-length recital before, just played in competitions or performed one or two pieces as part of a joint thing. Plenty of time to polish things up, but because i have a competition and masterclass performance at the end of november i can't really learn too much new repertoire.  It would be on a digital piano, though a good one, if that affects your advice.

A provisional programme I've thought of would include

Rachmaninoff: prelude in C# minor
Faure: nocture #4 in Eb major
Poulenc: First and Second Novelettes (possibly third but i don't know it much yet)
Liszt Consollation #3
Beethoven: Sonata Opus 10/1 in C minor
Chopin: Ballade in G minor

encore (if needed) Schumann: Traumeri from Kinderscene

now, all of that i'm pretty much on top of, except for the 2nd and 3rd movements of the beethoven.  I was also considering playing the third novelette for both the sake of completeness and it adds a more melancholy dimension to the novelettes.  Another piece i was thinking of adding in was bartok's suite opus 14, which i have learnt already, but my teacher wasn't sure about whether it would be well received or not.  Personally, I would quite like the thought of giving them something to talk about, and it might even draw a few people to more modern music, but i wouldn't want to upset anyone this early on.  Another potential encore piece is Rimsky-Korsakow's 'Flight of the bumblebee', but that might be classed as flagrant showing off.

I also know the first movement of mozart's 12th sonata in  F major (i think its the 12th anyway), and might possibly learn the other two movements to throw that in instead of maybe the beethoven, or something else

any advice from those who are more experienced would be thoroughly appreciated.  I'm 17 and am hoping i'll get further opportunities to do this (even more so if professionally )

[perfect_pitch]

There was the story of a pianist who played some really fast piece like 'Flight of the Bumble bee' for an encore and the audience got a bit annoyed at the cockiness of the Pianist...

Playing Traumeri is the perfect encore piece I would say. Shows your emotionally brilliant side. Shows the audience that you care more about beauty than speed.

Pretty good program.