What are you learning right now?

[soliloquy]

This has to be the 100th thread of this kind.  Can we plz just get it stickied?




Brahms Fantasies Op. 116
Brahms Sonata No. 3
Brahms Waltzes Op. 39
Scelsi Action Music

[rob47]

[mike_lang]

Chopin Etude 10-2
Schumann Abegg Variations
Bach C Minor French Suite

Does anyone have any interesting info on the Abegg, other than the use of the name as theme?  I apologize for the effective "double-post" on my part, but I thought there might be some knowledgeable people on here.

To anyone who has played the Abegg variations:
What do you make of the 2nd variation?  I find the ascending m2 motive and some very approximate harmonic structure, but I am finding it quite puzzling in relation to the theme.

Otherwise, any interesting info on the other pieces would be great!

Thanks,
Michael

[nanabush]

I'm in a crazy Rach phase right now, so last week my teacher let me choose another Etude Tableau to learn, and I chose op 39 #8 which is my favorite of the set.  I've been spendin alot of time getin the left hand motion fluent, and then tacklin the right hand double notes after.  Also still workin on 3rd Danzas Argentina, and 3rd Italian concerto mvmt.

[kelly_kelly]

Moonlight 3
Ghopin Nocturne #21
Chopin Waltz op. 69 No. 2

Edit: Add Etude 25-1 (more to come, though)

[pies]

Ligeti Etudes 1, 5, 6, 10, 14a
Prokofiev Piano Sonatas No. 5, 6, 7
A Sorabji piece
Moonlight Sonata

[elias89]

Beethoven op.2/3
Chopin nocturne op.48/1
Bach BWV851
Mozart-Volodos  "turkish march-Paraphrase"

[mike_lang]

Beethoven op.2/3
Chopin nocturne op.48/1
Bach BWV851
Mozart-Volodos  "turkish march-Paraphrase"

Can someone tell me more about this Volodos?  Like Sorabji, this forum is the first time that I've heard of him.

Thanks,
Michael

[dnephi]

Concert pianist, I have his Rach 3 recording. (About Volodos that is)

I am learning:
Bach Fransosische Suite BWV816
Chopin Op. 10 #12
Mendelssohn Piano Concerto #1 in g minor
Brahms Intermezzo Op. 118 #2

[mike_lang]

Ligeti Etudes 1, 5, 6, 10, 14a
Prokofiev Piano Sonatas No. 5, 6, 7
A Sorabji piece
Moonlight Sonata

Wow - that's quite a bit of material at once.  How do you like the 6th Prok sonata?  That is probably my favorite of his sonatas.  Have you heard Kissin's recording?  He talks in the liner notes about a "Stalin leitmotif", a.k.a. the first theme of the first movement, and its violent reemergence in the finale.

[thalbergmad]

Today, i have been messing around with the Schutt/Strauss Wiener Blut transcription.

Tomorrow, it will probably be something different.