What do you think about the pieces that I will learn this year?

[presto agitato]

Hello friends.
I’d like to know your opinions about the pieces that I will learn this year.

JS Bach – Fantasia in A minor form BWV 904
JS Bach – Prelude and Fugue in E flat minor BWV 853
Brahms – Caprice in D minor Op.116-1
Brahms – Intermezzo in A minor Op.116-2
Mozart/Liszt – Lacrimosa from Requiem in D minor
Liszt – Soneto 104 del Petrarca.

Right now I’m working on Brahms’s Op116-2. Wonderful piece!!

Happy new year.

[lelle]

What kind of opinions are you after? Question is kinda vague tbh

Prelude and Fugue in E flat minor BWV 853 are beautiful though.

Happy new year!

[rachfan]

I think that the pieces you have on the list are all great repertoire.  But if I were you, over course of a full year I would try to do 10 pieces rather than six.  I'd also try to get a better balance of the stylistic periods.  You've got Baroque (2), Viennese Classical (1) and Romantic (3) represented there.  Where is the Impressionistic and Contemporary?  What about a piece by Debussy or Ravel? How about a Late Romantic work, perhaps by Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Bortkiewicz, Catoire, or Faure?  For Contemporary you'd need to do some research to find something that would most interest you.

[kelly_kelly]

I think that the pieces you have on the list are all great repertoire.  But if I were you, over course of a full year I would try to do 10 pieces rather than six.  I'd also try to get a better balance of the stylistic periods.  You've got Baroque (2), Viennese Classical (1) and Romantic (3) represented there.  Where is the Impressionistic and Contemporary?  What about a piece by Debussy or Ravel? How about a Late Romantic work, perhaps by Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Bortkiewicz, Catoire, or Faure?  For Contemporary you'd need to do some research to find something that would most interest you.

The Mozart/Liszt doesn't count as Viennese classical, in my book. But regardless, I think what you're missing is a substantial work, i.e. a sonata or a suite, that would make your repertoire more suitable to say, perform a recital.

[john11inc]

I don't think you should pigeonhole yourself into learning a such-and-such list of repertoire for a year.  Who knows what pieces you might get bored with, or how your tastes and/or interests might change in the course of a year.

[rachfan]

Yes, the Mozart/Lizst is Romantic again.  I read that one too quickly.  Sorry.  But it helps make the case to branch out a bit more into other styles.