Help!

[nuty]

Hy everyone!
At the moment I'm working on few pieces for a national competition (Slovenia). My teacher and I have choosen:

1. Bach: English Suite 2., Preludio
2. Beethoven: Sonata Op. 14 No. 1
3. Weber: Perpetuum mobile
4. Rachmaninoff: Elegie Op. 3 No. 1

I don't have problems learning the repertoar. But still I would like to hear the pieces from someone else before I perform them. I allready searched around but I oly found a recording of Rachmaninoff. So if anybody has a recording of any of those pieces could you please send it to nuty69@gmail.com.

Thank you for help!

[brahms4me]

I don't know if you were able to get to this site for the Rachmaninoff but just in case:     

https://www.classicalarchives.com/

You have to subscribe but it's free and they'll allow you 5 downloads per day.  If you want to have a paid subscription ($25 a year) then you'll have total access.

[le_poete_mourant]

Go to your local library and check out some CDs.

[apion]

Go to your local library and check out some CDs.

Whoever would have thought of that ?

[pianistimo]

if that is carl maria von weber's perpetuum mobile - you might want to read some funny stuff about vladimir de pachmann - who completely loved his music and was fairly avante garde, too - and probably why he played his music so well.  you see - carl maria von weber was mostly a self-taught pianist - so his compositions take unusual fingerings to deceptive heights.  for someone like pachmann - this was nothing.  to play arpeggios and flashy stuff with speed.  everyone else was stuck on scalular playing.  the viennese style.

so -de pachmann championed weber pretty well.  i think i found this article by googling it on google scholar - basically 'piano fingering weber perpetuum mobile' or something.  it was about the third or fourth article down.

the last thing i found was an article entitled 'weber and the piano' by robin langley.  i know this has nothing to do with listening to this piece - but it has a little 'background' for you to say if you have to say something about the composer:

'...weber was born on 18 november 1786, a few weeks after the first performance of le nozze di figaro, and he died on 5 june 1826, some nine months before beethoven.  in weber's formative years, therefore, the piano was undergoing an important new stage in its development.  the five-octave instrument for which the concertos of mozart (weber's cousin by marriage) were written was giving place to one of six-and-a-half octaves capable of wider dynamic range, colour, and sustaining power.

weber had bought a grand piano by brodmann of vienna in 1813 and, from the completion of sonata no. 1 the previous year, his music regularly demanded the whole range....weber's early piano style - for example, the momento capriccioso dedicated to meyerbeer and written, interestingly, in 1808....grasps the new opportunities, literally with both hands.

weber's writing for the instrument is strongly individual.  despite his awareness of his predecessors' achievements, particularly dussek and his pupil prince louis ferdinand's, as a player he was self-taught and his technique was formed in the main by his natural gifts.  he had large hands, so chords and figuration covering a 10th are common, and he laid great stress on the equal cultivation of both hands, which are required to range freely over the entire compass....weber's passage-work has a scintillating glitter; it lives dangerously (for the unwary performer), and the originality of both the final destination and the imaginative paths it takes on the way contain elements of surprise unhappily absent from the ponderous periods and schoolroom safety of the general viennese style.'