30 min Recital

[presto agitato]

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?

[pianistimo]

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.

[pianistimo]

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.