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Offline dinosaurtales

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Taking a survey - Masters recitals
on: January 02, 2006, 06:44:52 PM
Who has done one? What did you play?
So much music, so little time........

Offline amanfang

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Re: Taking a survey - Masters recitals
Reply #1 on: January 02, 2006, 06:55:32 PM
I am doing the first of my master's recitals in March.  (I am working on my MMus in Piano Pedagogy.)  Our first recital is a chamber recital, and I am playing all piano duo with a friend of mine.  We are playing Busoni/Mozart Duettino Concertante, Liebermann's Three Lullabies Op. 76, and Liszt's Reminiscences of Don Juan for two pianos. 
I am thinking about literature for my solo recital next spring, and have not nailed anything down.  Since I am pedagogy, my recital is shorter - only 50 minutes.  At the moment, my program has:

Beethoven - Sonata Op. 54

Brahms - Variations on Theme by Schumann, Op. 23 (This was originally a 4 hand work, transcribed for 2 hands by Kirchner - I LOVE this set)

Liebermann - Three Impromptus Op. 68

I'm not completely sure about the Liebermann yet though.  Those three total 35 minutes, and I am thinking about adding some of the shostakovich preludes from the Op. 34 set to open the program with, and then possibly do the Brahms, then Beethoven, then Liebermann, but I don't know.  I have over a year to decide what I'm doing, and most of my attention is on my recital for the fall at this point.  I may pick a longer 20th century set and forget about the shostakovich preludes.  Not sure yet.  Good luck in choosing literature!
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