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Which 2 of the following do you prefer?

Liszt: Spanish Rhapsody
15 (24.6%)
Bach-Busoni: Chaconne in Dm
13 (21.3%)
Chopin: Ballade No. 3 (Ab maj)
19 (31.1%)
Ravel: Toccata from "Le Tombeau de Couperin"
12 (19.7%)
Liszt-Stradel: Les Preludes
2 (3.3%)

Total Members Voted: 31

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Topic: help me choose two of these..  (Read 1735 times)

Offline donjuan

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help me choose two of these..
on: June 14, 2006, 06:01:32 AM
help me decide on my next project to work on..

please pick 2 from the list that you like the most. (I'm not asking about difficulty)

thanks

Offline Kassaa

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Re: help me choose two of these..
Reply #1 on: June 14, 2006, 06:10:23 AM
Chopin and the Spanish Rhapsody. Did the third ballade this year, it's a very cool piece and it's fun to work on it. Most difficult parts for me are the first four pages (getting the right sound).

The Liszt is a good show off piece and sounds cool.

Offline maxy

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Re: help me choose two of these..
Reply #2 on: June 18, 2006, 04:49:29 PM
Liszt SR and Bach-Busoni.  It won't make for a well balanced program, but heh, I don't care!  8)

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Re: help me choose two of these..
Reply #3 on: June 18, 2006, 05:05:51 PM
I picked the Stradal coz i like the forgotten ones.

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Offline donjuan

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Re: help me choose two of these..
Reply #4 on: June 18, 2006, 05:09:58 PM
thanks for your replies! 

I actually started Spanish Rhapsody and the Chopin Ballade, but I found the ballade so hard to memorize (like all Chopin) so I switched it to Chaconne.

In other words, Im now doing what maxy said

Offline burstroman

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Re: help me choose two of these..
Reply #5 on: June 24, 2006, 03:58:46 AM
The Chopin Ballade is the best of the lot. Listen to Richter's version; it's ideal.

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Re: help me choose two of these..
Reply #6 on: June 24, 2006, 11:52:08 PM
I don't like any of them.
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Offline nanabush

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Re: help me choose two of these..
Reply #7 on: June 25, 2006, 12:04:48 AM
Chopin Ballade and Ravel Toccata  ;D two of my alltime favs!
Interested in discussing:

-Prokofiev Toccata
-Scriabin Sonata 2

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Re: help me choose two of these..
Reply #8 on: June 25, 2006, 12:07:42 AM
The Chopin Ballade is the best of the lot. Listen to Richter's version; it's ideal.

Seconded.

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Re: help me choose two of these..
Reply #9 on: June 25, 2006, 04:35:33 PM
The Bach-Busoni Chaconne BWV1004 is a real masterpiece and definitely gets my #1 vote.  While the Chopin Ballade is probably the other one you SHOULD learn, I voted for the Spanish Rhapsody anyways just cause it's such a badass piece =P  Try to get Bolet on it; it's joygasmic.
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