Audition CD!!

[bachfan87]

I have to make this prescreening CD for Mannes, and all I know is that they want up to 45 minutes of music from at least 2 contrasting eras. So these are the pieces I'm working on right now, I'm not sure if I should put them all in or just some. What's your opinion?

Bach - Prelude and Fugue in C# Major, WTC book II
Beethoven - Tempest Sonata movement 1
Ravel - Tombeau de Couperin mvt 1
Chopin - Etude in c minor 'ocean'
Rachmaninoff - Prelude in D Major op. 23 no. 4
Chopin - Introduction and Rondo in Eb, op. 16
Muczynski - Masks (doubt anyone's heard of this - it's modern)
Bartok - Suite op. 14 mvt 1 (i don't know whether to add the other movements as they are not quite ready, but since this is 'contrasting' should I put it with the rest of the pieces?)

ANY help would be GREATLY appreciated!!

[iumonito]

Undergrad?  Who teaches at Mannes that you have decided to go there?

From your list, I would say

Bach
Beethoven
the two Chopins
Muczynski

Kill the rest for audition purposes.  For undergrad that is a completely respectable repertoire.  Put your best 5 minutes at the front. The people evaluating the auditions will not hear everything, but skip around.

If you are applying for a graduate degree, you probably ought to choose some more substantial Chopin (for example Op. 49) and XXth century (for example a Prokofiev or Scriabin sonata, or some important Ravel or Debussy, like Images I).  And a more substantial Beethoven work, like Op. 35 or Op. 81a could not hurt.  But then, you probably would not be asking this question.