Pieces for me to learn

[I Love Xenakis]

ok.  Everyone just start listing pieces in the 4-12 minute length category that you suggest I learn, cause I'm bored.  Romantic, Impressionist or any Modern era.  Difficult, but nothing rediculous like Finnissy please.  Just post some of your favorite pieces in those eras!  And as far as the romantic thing goes, don't say anything by Mendelssohn or Brahms.  I hate them.


Things I've already thought of:
Sorabji Quasi Habanera Op. 8
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DAMNIT ><

[BoliverAllmon]

solo only?

[thalbergmad]

For the Romantic I would choose the Tausig-Weber Invitation to the Dance.

Superb transcription that rarely gets an outing.

I am so happy I have found someone else who hates Mendelssohn and Brahms.

[verywellmister]

4-12 min...

Rach Etudes
Some Liszt pieces
Chopin Scherzos, Etudes, Nocturnes, Impromptus
Ravel Jeux d'eau
Debussy Reflets dans l'eau
Copland's Cat and Mouse

[I Love Xenakis]

I am so happy I have found someone else who hates Mendelssohn and Brahms.

You already knew I hated them =P  You haven't caught on that I'm skepto yet?  o.O

4-12 min...

Rach Etudes
Some Liszt pieces
Chopin Scherzos, Etudes, Nocturnes, Impromptus
Ravel Jeux d'eau
Debussy Reflets dans l'eau
Copland's Cat and Mouse

Already know all the Rach etudes/chopin pieces I'm interested in learning, which liszt pieces are you refering to, already know the ravel, don't want to learn the Images I and the Copland is too easy.


Am currently listening to that Weber transcription.

EDIT: not super impressed with this Weber.  But I just thought of another piece- the Saint-Saens Etude en Forma de Valse.  Add that to teh list.

[Kassaa]

Prokofiev third sonata?

[stevie]

hahaha, when answering, be aware of the level of pianistic accomplishment of the thread starter

[I Love Xenakis]

Prokofiev third sonata?

actually i'm not a big fan of that piece.  don't really know why.

[etudes]

Chopin Allegro de Concert,Barcarolle,Fantasie,3rd Sonata(too long)
Liszt Norma,Sonnambula,Don Juan,Puritani
Xenakis Evryali,Herma
Hamelin La Campanella,Prelude & Fugue,Triple Etude
Lyapunov some of transcendental etudes
Alkan Le Festin, three etudes op.76,2nd movement from sonata
Feinberg sonatas
randomly Godowsky etudes,Passacaglia(a bit too long)
i am sure all the pieces i mentioned you knew it already but maybe you want to try some

[etudes]

Chopin Allegro de Concert,Barcarolle,Fantasie,3rd Sonata(too long)
Liszt Norma,Sonnambula,Don Juan,Puritani
Xenakis Evryali,Herma
Hamelin La Campanella,Prelude & Fugue,Triple Etude
Lyapunov some of transcendental etudes
Alkan Le Festin, three etudes op.76,2nd movement from sonata
Feinberg sonatas
randomly Godowsky etudes,Passacaglia(a bit too long)
i am sure all the pieces i mentioned you knew it already but maybe you want to try some

add Sciarrino de la nuit

[I Love Xenakis]

Ok so far we've thought of:

Boulez Douze Notations
Boulez Incises
Chopin Fantasy Op. 49
Ginastera Sonata No. 1
Massenet Papillons Blancs et Noirs
Ravel Sonatine
Rautavaara Seven Preludes
Rautavaara Six Etudes
Rzewski Squares
Saint-Saens Etude en Forma de Valse
Sciarrino De la Nuit
Scriabin Sonata No. 7 "White Mass"
Sorabji Quasi Habanera Op. 8
Tchaikovsky-Pletnev Adagio from "Sleeping Beauty"

[nanabush]

Liszt etudes: Wild Jagd, Chasse Neige, Hungarian Rhapsody #6
Chopin: Ballade in F minor, Berceuse
Rachmaninoff:  Etudes tableaux op 39 #5, 7
Ravel: Jeux d'Eau, Sonatine, Scarbo, [Toccata (t de coup.) not quite 4 minutes but incredible!]
Debussy: L'isle Joyeuse, Cathedral Engloutie
Prokofiev:  Sonata #3,6,7
Bartok: Suite op 14, op 8a

[I Love Xenakis]

Liszt etudes: Wild Jagd, Chasse Neige, Hungarian Rhapsody #6
Chopin: Ballade in F minor, Berceuse
Rachmaninoff:  Etudes tableaux op 39 #5, 7
Ravel: Jeux d'Eau, Sonatine, Scarbo, [Toccata (t de coup.) not quite 4 minutes but incredible!]
Debussy: L'isle Joyeuse, Cathedral Engloutie
Prokofiev:  Sonata #3,6,7
Bartok: Suite op 14, op 8a

Already play the bold ones.  Don't like any of those other pieces besides the Sonatine.

[verywellmister]

liszt trans. etudes and pag. etudes i meant

and venezia e napoli

[pianistimo]

just listened to piers lane play the saint saens etude (en the form of valse).  very nice!  maybe easy for you.  probably pair it with something else?  am curious because i've not heard much of the composer rautavaara.  what is he about?  don't know much about him.

[stevie]

just listened to piers lane play the saint saens etude (en the form of valse).  very nice!  maybe easy for you.  probably pair it with something else?  am curious because i've not heard much of the composer rautavaara.  what is he about?  don't know much about him.

 that saint-saens etude is very very hard, and most definetly harder than it sounds and...too ahrd for him

rautavaara is finnish, living, probably not for too long becuase hes very old.

havent you figured out yet that skepto is full of sh*t?

[skeptolotapus]

omigawrsh!  here i go again. how embarrasin .  I see that my bad self is been alot more active than I, or our therapist, thought.  C'mon now bad self, Xen, ya know we aint supposed to be splitting like this here no more.  We're supposed to be coming together in one head so we can like coexitense ya know?

on another note (get it note? hyuk hyuk hyuk) until just a lil bit ago I used to have this whole fantasy world of great pianists playing the hardest songs ever at the greatest music school adn I would write out lil programs for the performnces and I made up a composer who's real real hard and made out one kid to be the greatest prodigy ever and I would imagine what it was like there at  Raftman (the imaginary school) and Steven Kistman was the greatest prodigy there who would play Malada suites on his recitals (Malada was the greatest composer) and it was all kinda modeled on this one boy at school who plays the piano so good and made me feel so mad and jelous so I guess I made this world and then brought some of it on here and of course I cast myself as Kistman and...oh boy guess we got more work to do than even the therapist thought. 

well, lik e the threapist said too, I'm just reminding my bad self that my good self is here too-I'm checking up on me hyuk hyuk hyuk.

[I Love Xenakis]

omigawrsh!  here i go again. how embarrasin .  I see that my bad self is been alot more active than I, or our therapist, thought.  C'mon now bad self, Xen, ya know we aint supposed to be splitting like this here no more.  We're supposed to be coming together in one head so we can like coexitense ya know?

on another note (get it note? hyuk hyuk hyuk) until just a lil bit ago I used to have this whole fantasy world of great pianists playing the hardest songs ever at the greatest music school adn I would write out lil programs for the performnces and I made up a composer who's real real hard and made out one kid to be the greatest prodigy ever and I would imagine what it was like there at  Raftman (the imaginary school) and Steven Kistman was the greatest prodigy there who would play Malada suites on his recitals (Malada was the greatest composer) and it was all kinda modeled on this one boy at school who plays the piano so good and made me feel so mad and jelous so I guess I made this world and then brought some of it on here and of course I cast myself as Kistman and...oh boy guess we got more work to do than even the therapist thought. 

well, lik e the threapist said too, I'm just reminding my bad self that my good self is here too-I'm checking up on me hyuk hyuk hyuk.

Stevie, I think you need to get your money back from your therapist.

[thalbergmad]

Stevie, I think you need to get your money back from your therapist.

Then he can contribute towards your sessions.

[I Love Xenakis]

Then he can contribute towards your sessions.

No.  I have a tendency to eat all of my therapists.


Anyways, how bout back to the original question?

[e60m5]

Do you get a kick out of masquerading as an accomplished pianist, Skepto/Xenakis?

Seriously. I'm just wondering.

[rob47]

"i believe him, yo. i don't know why but i do."