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Offline jlh

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Your most recent concerto!
on: August 14, 2007, 05:02:17 AM
Related to ameliaw's thread about your 1st concerto, this thread is for the concerto that you have most recently learned and/or performed.  If you have not yet learned/played a concerto, please post in the other thread.  ;)

I'll go first:

I most recently re-learned Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto for a competition this summer.


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Offline soliloquy

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #1 on: August 14, 2007, 07:40:37 AM
Beethoven No. 3

Don't do many concerti or much chamber music so just filling out some common rep stuff :-[


Plan to do Dusapin's A Quia next though.

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #2 on: August 14, 2007, 08:00:07 AM
Mozart #24 in c minor K.491, 15 months ago.

No concerti on the horizon for me, I'm focusing on solo lit.
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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #3 on: August 14, 2007, 11:15:18 AM
Emperor half a year ago. Rach 3 for same competition next year.

Offline burstroman

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #4 on: August 16, 2007, 04:09:00 AM
Max Reger Concerto

Offline Pumkinhead

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #5 on: August 16, 2007, 07:38:12 AM
I competed with Tchaikovsky 1 during the school year, but I'm planning on two easier works to finish in the same amount of time this year. Rhapsody in Blue and the Ravel G Major.

Offline teresa_b

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #6 on: August 16, 2007, 12:26:43 PM
Beethoven 4 (chamber version).   Now working on Mozart 9 (K271)

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #7 on: August 16, 2007, 03:08:33 PM
I is learning the Pixis Concerto.

Absolute delight.

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #8 on: August 16, 2007, 10:58:16 PM
Well... I was working on Rachmaninoffs 2nd concerto earlier this summer, focusing on the first movement though but learned most of the 2nd movement too. After that, I started learning Ravels left-hand concerto which is almost memorized but which I had to put aside since I have to have a onehour+ program ready for a competition in Rome in October, so I'll continue the Ravel concerto after that. and then hopefully enter the schools concerto competition around februar next year :)

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #9 on: August 16, 2007, 11:15:58 PM
Plan to do Dusapin's A Quia next though.

Good one.

My most recent concerto is the Arensky fantasia on russian folksongs.

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #10 on: August 16, 2007, 11:19:43 PM
Good one.

My most recent concerto is the Arensky fantasia on russian folksongs.


lol  I'm watching a vid of that on youtube this very moment!  creepy :o

Offline sjskb

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #11 on: August 17, 2007, 12:11:37 AM
Most recently learnt and performed: tchaikovsky 1st

coming up soon: yellow river concerto... anybody heard of this one? ;D

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #12 on: August 17, 2007, 01:53:52 AM
coming up soon: yellow river concerto... anybody heard of this one? ;D

Of course. I didn't think anyone here would actually learn it though. I mean, is it really worth the trouble? I have never seen much in it.

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #13 on: August 17, 2007, 02:16:36 AM
Of course. I didn't think anyone here would actually learn it though. I mean, is it really worth the trouble? I have never seen much in it.

it is a chinese piece written to depict the 2nd world war with japan... maybe as an absolute concerto, it's just a flourish of fast notes and thundering octaves. But if you do understand the background and circumstances where it is written, it is actually a very touching piece of music....

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #14 on: May 13, 2008, 03:51:47 PM
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Offline thalbergmad

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #15 on: May 13, 2008, 07:06:44 PM
The delete concerto, i have never heard of that one.

Is it any good??

My most recent concerto is the Griffin 3rd.

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Offline pmz310

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #16 on: May 14, 2008, 06:54:06 PM
Just finished Grieg, now working on Chopin, then either Brahms 1 or 2, or rach 1
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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #17 on: May 15, 2008, 02:22:37 AM
Just finished Grieg, now working on Chopin, then either Brahms 1 or 2

You are, my friend, absolutely crazy.

Offline retrouvailles

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #18 on: May 15, 2008, 03:54:56 AM
Either he is crazy, or he is not doing a satisfactory job on it. Or maybe both. Or maybe he is completely capable of it. Who knows? Until we hear a recording, that is.

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #19 on: May 15, 2008, 06:45:22 AM
he didnt say whether he has started work on the Brahms or when he will. just said that it would be his next to learn after the chopin.

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #20 on: May 15, 2008, 10:52:20 AM
Mozart No. 23 in A mjaor K.488 and Shostakovich 2 for my finals
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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #21 on: May 15, 2008, 11:46:44 AM
Performed Mozart 9 in April (which I posted in Audition room and got 0 responses!  :(  ), and now working on Bach F minor and Mozart G major for next spring.

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #22 on: May 15, 2008, 12:41:55 PM
he didnt say whether he has started work on the Brahms or when he will. just said that it would be his next to learn after the chopin.
what i meant was i would like to learn either one of them after learning chopin 1
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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #23 on: May 15, 2008, 12:57:55 PM
Performed Mozart 9 in April (which I posted in Audition room and got 0 responses!  :(  ), and now working on Bach F minor and Mozart G major for next spring.

Teresa

i might've listened part of it. if i remember correctly, i was impressed with your sound, i.e. clear n pearly which is very suitable for mozart. well-done! tds
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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #24 on: May 15, 2008, 01:07:33 PM
i might've listened part of it. if i remember correctly, i was impressed with your sound, i.e. clear n pearly which is very suitable for mozart. well-done! tds

Hey, Thanks!  (I thought nobody cared  ;) )  It is very long, so I suspect people didn't want to take that much time to listen, which is understandable.  (Would you mind terribly posting your comment on the thread in Audition Room? )

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #25 on: May 15, 2008, 01:16:30 PM
see if i can find the thread. tds
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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #26 on: May 15, 2008, 05:09:58 PM
mozart piano concerto no. 20....
that's surely a nice piece....
but definitely a tragedy to learn LOL...

Offline franzliszt2

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #27 on: May 15, 2008, 10:56:39 PM
Just performed Grieg....will perform Prok 1 in July, so I guess I'll have to start learning that.

Will probably start Sharwenka 4th after Prok 1 for October competition

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #28 on: May 16, 2008, 10:33:10 AM
grieg
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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #29 on: May 19, 2008, 04:17:32 PM
Most recently learnt and performed: tchaikovsky 1st

coming up soon: yellow river concerto... anybody heard of this one? ;D

where can i get an online version of that piano concerto!?!?!?
Learning:

Chopin Polonaise Op. 53
Brahms Op. 79 No. 2
Rachmaninoff Op. 16 No. 4 and 5

Offline ryanyee

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #30 on: May 21, 2008, 01:29:20 PM
bach bwv1052,1055/6, cant remember, bwv1060/1,bwv 1064. i see that no one here has tried playing a bach concerto yet. probably the easiest ones among all of these concertos though.

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #31 on: May 27, 2008, 09:59:45 AM
At the moment, playing Ravel's Concerto for piano in E major.  I'm still a bit tentative, so it's going slower than my usual speed.
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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #32 on: May 27, 2008, 05:02:58 PM
the Barber piano concerto a few months ago

it was pretty difficult, but definately worth it

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #33 on: June 02, 2008, 02:27:36 PM
I want to play Rach2 but no guts to learn it. :-[
Many say it's hard and so on..
but i really love it!!
I know the melody of the whole concerto very well because it's so beautifully written.
I want to play as many pieces as I can before I die.

Offline rachmaninova

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #34 on: June 02, 2008, 05:21:28 PM
Going to study Beethoven's 3rd very soon (another one amongst the millions who studied it)...
I'd like to try Penderecki's after that... (I'm more active on chamber music)

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #35 on: June 02, 2008, 11:22:30 PM
about to finish chopin piano concerto no 1, e minor.....very dear to my heart, and will be performing it with my college orchestra (grad student but not in music, lol) come late summer.....

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #36 on: June 03, 2008, 04:56:31 AM
Bach d minor, for a comp at college. I absolutely love it :)
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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #37 on: June 03, 2008, 11:27:23 AM
Well, here's another Bach.  Now learning Bach F Minor (1056) and reprising Mozart G Major (K453) for next spring.  LOVE the fact that this Bach concerto is ony 10 minutes in toto;)

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #38 on: June 04, 2008, 04:22:58 PM
k453 is a wonderful piece... i think i might learn that as my first concerto...
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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #39 on: June 05, 2008, 11:34:18 AM
k453 is a wonderful piece... i think i might learn that as my first concerto...

Do!!!   ;D It is not as technically difficult as some of the other Mozart ones, and it is just beautiful.

Teresa

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #40 on: June 23, 2008, 06:28:56 AM
My last concert was in the House of the Culture (León) the past week, i play lilium and a Minuet of Bach.

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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #41 on: June 23, 2008, 02:22:17 PM
k453 is a wonderful piece... i think i might learn that as my first concerto...

teresa is soooo right!  great piece.  tackle it.

[say, tompilk, in my lurking days on this forum I thought I read that you were working on Mendelsshohn "Variations Serieuses"?  How'd that go for you?]

back on topic:  I'm doing Rach2 with a fellow pianist for a local fund-raiser gala.  small potatoes, but I'm nervous all the same.
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Re: Your most recent concerto!
Reply #42 on: July 08, 2008, 03:01:27 PM
Shostakovich no.1 in F major
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