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Easier piano concertos?

on: June 08, 2006, 06:38:18 PM

Piano concertos are famous for being incredibly difficult and virtuosic (is that a word?), but are there any easier piano concertos out there?

Just wondering.

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Reply #1 on: June 08, 2006, 06:40:10 PM

Kabalevskys third piano concerto.

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Reply #2 on: June 08, 2006, 07:13:31 PM

did i dream this, or is the ravel g maj really supposed to be fairly easy?

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Reply #3 on: June 08, 2006, 07:35:28 PM

Mozart´s early concertos and Haynd´s in D major.

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Reply #4 on: June 08, 2006, 08:33:29 PM

Quote from: elevateme on June 08, 2006, 07:13:31 PM

did i dream this, or is the ravel g maj really supposed to be fairly easy?

I think the first two movements are ok - the last one looks like a killer to me. The D major is actually quite doable, apart perhaps from the cadenza...

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Reply #5 on: June 08, 2006, 08:38:30 PM

***. No. Just no.... No.

Ravel Left Hand Concerto is harder than Bartok 2, Prokofiev 2, Beethoven 4 or Rachmaninov 3.

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Reply #6 on: June 08, 2006, 08:47:37 PM

Grieg, Mendelssohn (I think)

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Reply #7 on: June 08, 2006, 08:53:10 PM

Quote from: kelly_kelly on June 08, 2006, 08:47:37 PM

Grieg, Mendelssohn (I think)

I dont agree at all

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Reply #8 on: June 08, 2006, 09:00:31 PM

grieg concerto is very hard

when somone say it's easy it's in relative to the famouse concertos like brahms rach and beethoven.

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Reply #9 on: June 08, 2006, 09:38:24 PM

Sorry then

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Reply #10 on: June 08, 2006, 10:08:32 PM

Shotakovich 2 is not too demanding. And great. Some bits are little tricky, but on whole managable, and great fun.

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Reply #11 on: June 08, 2006, 10:53:41 PM

Quote from: soliloquy on June 08, 2006, 08:38:30 PM

***. No. Just no.... No.

Ravel Left Hand Concerto is harder than Bartok 2, Prokofiev 2, Beethoven 4 or Rachmaninov 3.

Hm, not to me.

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Reply #12 on: June 09, 2006, 01:29:48 AM

I agree, Shosta 2 would be good. Was written for his son and is not too tricky - in fact I was told not to learn it coz it wouldn't push me far enough!
The Grieg is not terribly difficult technically - it should be manageable (even if you fluff some of it) - if you want to bring something new to it and perform it for a competition, then it'sprobably not the best choice.
I heard the Schnittke concerto for piano and strings - pianistically, it looked rather easy, nothing really in the way of Lisztian virtuosity - in fact, I think te girl didn't win coz the piece really wasn't suitable for competition.

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Reply #13 on: June 09, 2006, 06:01:34 AM

There are no "easy" concertos that are also "great." However, I think the "easiest" of the "great" concerti are these:

Mendelssohn no. 1
Mozart no. 21
Beethoven no. 3
Mozart no. 27

The easiest among the "virtuosic" concerti are:

Ravel G Major
Saint-Saens no. 2
Mozart no. 20
Mozart no. 24

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