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Topic: Need help finding a slow sonata movement  (Read 1570 times)

Offline vilius

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Need help finding a slow sonata movement
on: December 30, 2008, 09:38:41 AM
You probably get a lot of these kind of threads here, but I really need some help, I hope I'm not annoying anyone...

I need to play a slow movement from a classical era sonata for an audition. I would be very grateful if you guys/gals could recomend me some, because I'm having a hard time finding a suiting one.

Other things I'll be playing for the audition:

Beethoven - Sonata in F sharp Major, no.24 op.78, movement 1
Rachmaninoff - Prelude in G minor, op.23 no.5
J.S. Bach - Prelude & Fugue in Eb Major, WTC 2

The slow sonata movement should preferably be a bit below the first two of these when it comes to technical difficulty, but don't hold anything back, the more I have to chose from, the better!

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Re: Need help finding a slow sonata movement
Reply #1 on: December 30, 2008, 12:17:04 PM
You probably get a lot of these kind of threads here, but I really need some help, I hope I'm not annoying anyone...

I need to play a slow movement from a classical era sonata for an audition. I would be very grateful if you guys/gals could recomend me some, because I'm having a hard time finding a suiting one.

Other things I'll be playing for the audition:

Beethoven - Sonata in F sharp Major, no.24 op.78, movement 1
Rachmaninoff - Prelude in G minor, op.23 no.5
J.S. Bach - Prelude & Fugue in Eb Major, WTC 2

The slow sonata movement should preferably be a bit below the first two of these when it comes to technical difficulty, but don't hold anything back, the more I have to chose from, the better!

why not the 2nd mvt of your Beethoven Sonata? people commonly play a whole sonata for auditions in fact or 2 movements sometimes if it is a Beethoven/Mozart sonata
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Re: Need help finding a slow sonata movement
Reply #2 on: December 30, 2008, 05:47:37 PM
Mozart---II. k332 F MAJOR; Eb I. # 4 ; K. 457 C MINOR
Beethoven--Op. 2 # 1--C major II
Schubert----Bb mvt. 3   A major op. 142 mvt. II

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Re: Need help finding a slow sonata movement
Reply #3 on: December 30, 2008, 09:49:39 PM
The second movement of Beethoven op. 10 no 3 is beautiful (my favorite at the moment). Other than that, I agree with me movements kitty on the keys suggested.

why not the 2nd mvt of your Beethoven Sonata? people commonly play a whole sonata for auditions in fact or 2 movements sometimes if it is a Beethoven/Mozart sonata

I may be wrong, but I don't think that sonata has a slow movement.
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Re: Need help finding a slow sonata movement
Reply #4 on: December 31, 2008, 12:49:01 AM
Thanks Kelly_Kely! That is one of my fave's too.Yes the F# has only 2 mvts. and both quick.

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Re: Need help finding a slow sonata movement
Reply #5 on: December 31, 2008, 04:40:51 PM
Thank you very much for your help, I especially find the Mozart k332 to be strikingly beautiful. Any more recomendations are also very welcome so I can have many choises. Also, don't be afraid to recomend harder pieces too.  ;)

Again, thank you!

And Happy New Year!

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Re: Need help finding a slow sonata movement
Reply #6 on: January 01, 2009, 05:26:21 PM
Schumann----slow movement from the G minor Sonata, Op. 22 :)

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