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Offline mikey6

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Repertoire suggestion
on: September 11, 2008, 05:19:21 PM
I need a 45 minute program for a competition and at the moment have -
Debussy Image bk1 (15 mins)
Beethoven Bagatelles op.126 (20 mins)

So I need 10 minutes of a virtuosic kind.  Was possibly thinking the 13th Rhapsody, but any other suggestions?
Oh and nothing written past 1911!
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Re: Repertoire suggestion
Reply #1 on: September 12, 2008, 06:56:54 AM
Scriabin Fantasy?
For us musicians, the music of Beethoven is the pillar of fire and cloud of mist which guided the Israelites through the desert.  (Roughly quoted, Franz Liszt.)

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Re: Repertoire suggestion
Reply #2 on: September 12, 2008, 09:11:04 AM
Islamey :-D

Schumann toccata
Liszt Tarantella

I like the sound of a rhapsody as well.

Saint Saens etude in the form of a waltz.

Chopin Scherzo

Just some random thoughts  ;D

 

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Re: Repertoire suggestion
Reply #3 on: September 12, 2008, 03:51:49 PM
Scriabin Fantasy?
Not a huge fan...will investigate
Islamey :-D
BLEH!!  though you already knew that!
3rd sherzo is in the 1st round
I've done the tarantella to death, the Schumann is...well...hard!
possibly the Saint Saens.
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Re: Repertoire suggestion
Reply #4 on: September 12, 2008, 04:26:06 PM
Please do Saint Saens! I love that piece!

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Re: Repertoire suggestion
Reply #5 on: September 12, 2008, 07:18:24 PM
Oh and nothing written past 1911!

May i ask what is wrong with anything written past 1911?
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Re: Repertoire suggestion
Reply #6 on: September 12, 2008, 07:37:13 PM
Not a huge fan...will investigate

what

Offline mikey6

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Re: Repertoire suggestion
Reply #7 on: September 15, 2008, 03:42:42 PM
May i ask what is wrong with anything written past 1911?
Beats me, ask the the competition organisers.
what
Just not a huge fan of the piece, what else can I say.....
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Re: Repertoire suggestion
Reply #8 on: September 15, 2008, 04:03:50 PM
the 9th rhapsody clocks in around 10 minutes + -

Franck - Prelude Fugue and Variation is also basically 10 minutes
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Re: Repertoire suggestion
Reply #9 on: September 20, 2008, 12:38:51 AM
Beats me, ask the the competition organisers.Just not a huge fan of the piece, what else can I say.....

so soliliquy wont say some weird contemporary
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Re: Repertoire suggestion
Reply #10 on: September 20, 2008, 01:59:10 AM
Alkan Etude Op35 No 7 L'incendie au village voisin
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    part2
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Re: Repertoire suggestion
Reply #11 on: September 20, 2008, 02:33:12 AM
the 9th rhapsody clocks in around 10 minutes + -

Franck - Prelude Fugue and Variation is also basically 10 minutes
exactly my favorite rhapsody  8) I was about to say it  8) 8)
well.. 10 mins
Liszt Réminiscences de Robert le Diable  is one of the forgotten piece :D
too bad...Medtner - Sonata Tragica...was written ca. 10 years too late..otherwise it would fit the program so well.
Alkan - Le Festin Aesop op.39 no.12 would do the job as well  8) 8)
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Re: Repertoire suggestion
Reply #12 on: September 20, 2008, 04:39:04 AM
I too have been searching for the perfect 10 minute virtuosic competition piece.  There is Abegg variations by Schumann which is 8.45 minutes.  Mephisto waltz is 10 minutes-but so overplayed.  Ravel's La Valse I think is about 11 minutes.  Liszt legend-st. francis walks on the water is 8 minutes.  Mendelssohn variations seriouses is 11 minutes.  Liszt hungarian rhapsodies are good, or perhaps the tarentella which is 9 minutes?  He also wrote a 12 minute transcription of Totentanz, and Danse Macabre.  Rigoletto parphrase is 7 minutes, but there is also the transcription of Norma which is amazing!  I think that may be 15 minutes though.  You could play Chopin Bolero or a Rondo-efective and underplayed.  Dante sonata?  Hope these suggestions helped. 

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Re: Repertoire suggestion
Reply #13 on: September 20, 2008, 06:22:41 AM
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Alkan - Le Festin Aesop op.39 no.12 would do the job as well   
 

He doesn't like it....I shall convert him though!!
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