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Offline healdie

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RecomendPerformance piece
on: May 23, 2008, 09:35:09 PM
Hi i have a piano performance at college at the end of next year but i am prepaing for it now, I have 1 piece the Chopin Nocturne No. 2 in Eb but i am also looking for another contrasting piece prefrerbly something more upbeat (but from around the same period)

I am about grade 6 i was hoping someone could recomend me a good piece to go with the Nocturne, i will also say it is not a classical concert I am an extra in a popular music concert so to keep the audiences attention the piece can't be too long either, i would be grateful for any suggestions Thanks
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Re: RecomendPerformance piece
Reply #1 on: May 24, 2008, 12:03:09 PM
well u could try the posthumous chopin nocturne in c# minor. unsure of the opus number. or a prelude and fugue?
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Reply #2 on: May 24, 2008, 07:13:33 PM
A prelude and fuge can you recomend a good one please, remember i am only about grade 6 standard, thanks
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Re: RecomendPerformance piece
Reply #3 on: May 24, 2008, 07:57:56 PM
A schubert impromptu?
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Re: RecomendPerformance piece
Reply #4 on: May 25, 2008, 05:31:57 AM
probably with a different era
normally romantic pieces are contrasted well with this era
baroque is contrasted nicely with romantic
some suggestions is trying out a courante, gigue
these are pretty upbeat in terms of their rhythm compared to a slow, more emotional nocturne

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Re: RecomendPerformance piece
Reply #5 on: May 25, 2008, 05:41:19 AM
the 1st prelude and fugue and the 16th too. bk 1.
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Re: RecomendPerformance piece
Reply #6 on: May 25, 2008, 09:23:46 AM
Quote from: healdie on May 24, 2008, 07:13:33 PM
A prelude and fuge can you recomend a good one please, remember i am only about grade 6 standard, thanks

prelude and fugue shostakovich no. 1 op. 87 ? i dont know
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