What did you all play for your audition for 1st year Conservatoire?

[matjas]

This is something that I keep wondering about... 
What does everybody play for the audition for the 1st year Conservatoire?
And what was your level of playing at that time? (impl. how long did you struggle with your audition pieces,...)

My audition repertoire: Chopin - Etude op. 10 nr. 9
                                     J.S. Bach - Prélude & Fuga WTK 1 nr. 22 (5 voci)
                                     Beethoven - Sonata op. 10 nr. 1
                                     Chopin - Scherzo nr. 1 op. 20

What do you guys think of my audition repertoire? I did play many other pieces, but this are some pieces I can play so well, that I feel safe and secure with...
I'm going for musicality, not virtuosity.
My current level of playing...  Well, I learned the Scherzo in about two weeks... 
Looking forward to reply's! Thanks.

[imbetter]

a chopin scherzo in 2 weeks???

[matjas]

I don't usually practice that many hours a day, but I wasn't sure about my audition repertoire, maybe it was a little bit to easy?  So two weeks before the audition (the first audition anyway) I worked like hell to add the Scherzo to my repertoire...  It wasn't that hard, it's mostly repetition, I don't know how to say this in English, it's always the same musical idea repeating, no great deal of information to learn...  Not so difficult as some slow pieces I've learned, maybe the fact that this type of music is totally my style has something to do with it...  I would not be able to do the same thing with pieces I don't feel connected with in the way I feel connected with many pieces Chopin wrote... 
So, what do you think of my repertoire for the auditions?

[matjas]

I usually worry about the tempo and level of studying at the Conservatoire next year, can I take it from your reply that I don't have to worry like that? 

[pianowolfi]

This rep is definitely not too easy in my book. Not at all. I can imagine that someone learns this Scherzo in two weeks if he/she is very gifted and the piece is "totally his/her style". Well to me this has something of prodigy but okay, that occurs sometimes (btw to me the first Scherzo is one of the most difficult pieces at all, especially if you have to play all the Scherzo's in the first part of a concert and you need to begin with this one, a constellation  I will probably rather avoid ) It matters how you play and how you are able to sell yourself. But you say that you can play them all so well and you feel safe and secure with them- okay then go for it. 

[quantum]

My university audition rep was something like:
Chopin: Etude Op.25/1
Chopin: Ballade No.1
Beethoven: Op.10/3
Bach: Partita No.2
Debussy: Prelude Les Collines d' Anacapri
Bartok: Roumanian Folk Dances

I never got to perform all of it for any one audition.  I wanted to be comfortable with my program so I chose several pieces I had already been playing for a couple years. 

[matjas]

What is 'prodigy'?

I know that the Scherzo is not that easy, but the Beethoven Sonata op.10-1 and the Etude op.10-9 are "easy" (the other Etudes are way more difficult), both musically as technically...  Bach is musically much more difficult...  But I didn't really have a piece to show off with  So now I have the Scherzo to show off with   

Thanks for the reply!

[pianowolfi]

What is 'prodigy'?

I know that the Scherzo is not that easy, but the Beethoven Sonata op.10-1 and the Etude op.10-9 are "easy" (the other Etudes are way more difficult), both musically as technically...  Bach is musically much more difficult...  But I didn't really have a piece to show off with  So now I have the Scherzo to show off with   

Thanks for the reply!

"prodigy" is ther term for some very gifted (often very young) persons who are able to learn difficult pieces in a very short time and perform them very accurately just out of their given talents.

Good luck!