College Audition Repertoire!

[Barbosa-piano]

    Hello everybody! It's summer, and I am back! (This is the only time of year I have time to Log in...).

    I am finally going to be a senior in high school next year, and I am getting ready for college auditions. I just wanted to share the repertoire, and see what you think-
 
         Here it goes-
      Chopin - Etude Op. 10 N. 12 Revolutionary- I need to get it up to speed.
      Chopin- Nocturne Op. 27 No. 2 D Flat Major
      Debussy Images- Refletions dans l'eau
      Villa- Lobos- Impressoes Seresteiras-  Halfway done so far.
      Bach- Something unusual- Prelude and Fugue No. 14, Book 1 F# minor
      Beethoven- Appassionata Sonata-

I am trying very hard to practice technically difficult passages in everyone of them everyday, but often time becomes a problem. 

      Other two I have ready are Rachmaninoff's Prelude Op. 23 N.5 and my UIL Competition piece this year- Chopin's Polonaise Op. 40 N.2 in C minor.

      Thank you in advance- 

[pet]

What colleges or conservatories will you be applying to?

The repertoire looks balanced.  You should maybe add a piece from the Classical Period.  Maybe omit one of the Chopin pieces?

[pita bread]

What colleges or conservatories will you be applying to?

The repertoire looks balanced.  You should maybe add a piece from the Classical Period.  Maybe omit one of the Chopin pieces?

Pretty sure the Beethoven Appassionata is classical 

[pianistimo]

if you are a highschool senior next year - sounds like you'll be really ready to play next year if all of this is 'in the works' right now.  one thing that helps me is a couple of months (or one month) before the auditions - to record everything in a sort of order - with the exact tempos and dynamics in place and listen to it at night when you are just going to bed.  you get things really established in your head.  and, also, to play with the tape when you get a chance and mark the places that you can't keep up or remember things.

and, to practice playing in front of people before auditions.  don't worry if they don't make any sort of facial expression.  they're not supposed to show how you did during the audition.  so just play your best and wait for the results.  sometimes your pieces will not be heard in entirety - and it doesn't mean you are playing terrible if they cut you on the first couple pages.  it just means there is only so much time to audition x amount of students.  usually they can tell how good you are by the first 10 - 15 minutes.  everyone needs improvement - so not being perfect isn't held against you.  mentally make yourself expectant of entrance.  much better than dragging in and casting hopeful looks at the wall sideways.  walk in and take charge of the place.

[pet]

Oh you're right pita!  I always mistake that Sonata for a Romantic piece because of the way it sounds.  My mistake!  I believe it was written in the early 1800s.

[maxreger]

Appassionata is not classical, its allready part of the early romantic repetoire.

[kriskicksass]

Appassionata is not classical, its allready part of the early romantic repetoire.

While Beethoven's place on the Classical->Romantic spectrum is a great topic for conversation and debate, for the purpose of auditioning to a conservatory, the Appassionata is decidedly classical.