need help for my repertoire

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HI PEOPLE!!
I need a post-romantic(20th&modern) piano work for my next semester.
I'm 17 and on my 2nd semester of pre-university(not the common North-America education system...) I started the piano when I was 4 and gave up at 9 or 10 because I hate it when I was a child...decided to continue at 14 and love it now and get into a piano performance program after high school. I have a relatively good technique(used to practice Hanon&Czerny when i was small) but I really need to work on the sense of music, to feel it .

Believe me or not, I have NEVER perform any post-romantic piano work before, but i need absolutely have one for my recital program. My teacher gave me something pretty easy to begin, we picked Debussy's Deux Arabesque No.1 last semester and it killes me ..... technically it wasn't a problem, I can almost sight-read the piece but musically I can not get it...I played it so strangely for my exam, the judges found it was really heavy for an arabesque and the rubato much exagerated TAT..

So now, I need a new piece, according to my experince above, please give me some suggestions, I'd like to have a small piece less than 5min (got already an intense program), it can be a little tough technically(try to compensate the musical illness) but musically less challenging(I know i can't handle l'isle joyeuse though i appreciate so much). My teacher want me to find something that i like by myself, I passed a whole day on Youtube to listen to Ravel Debussy Copland Shoenberg Poulen Kabalevsky Gershwin Messiaen etc...and i feel lost.

All you comments will be appreciate! THANKS in advanced!

Sorry for all the language errors, i'm not a native English speaker.

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[emilye]

 what do you think about this prelude? or

[pies]

 what do you think about this prelude? or

The Rach piece is late romantic, so he can't use it.

[djealnla]

https://www.sorabji-archive.co.uk/compositions/piece.php?pieceid=66

[aintgotnorhythm]

I would suggest something from Shostakovich 24 preludes and fugues (Op 87), preludes 4, 21 and 22 being my current favourites.

[thinkgreenlovepiano]

I struggled with that Arabesque too. It's very very beautiful, but when it comes to playing it just was not "me"...

You said you've been listening to music all day and feel lost- did you not like any of the pieces you listened to at all??

My repertoire is TINY, so I'm not the best person to suggest pieces, BUT I'm *around* the same age as you, and I learned the arabesque sometime last year. So I'm just going to tell you which pieces I've considered learning/ suggestions from my teacher.

I like Ginastera a lot... try listening to his Rondo Sobre Temas Infantiles Argentinos, or one of his Twelve American Preludes. Those are probably some of his shorter and easier pieces, according to my teacher.
 I also liked the preludes from Gershwin's Three Preludes, or one of Muczynski's six preludes.
Humoreske by Shchedrin is also a lot of fun, I learned that one. I think it may be quite easy for you (although it wasn't for me, haha).
Bartok's Romanian Folk Dances and his three rondos are fun too.  
And I definitely second the Shostakovich preludes and fugues, op 87 and 34- they are really awesome!


 

[brogers70]

You could try one or two of the pieces from "On an Overgrown Path" by Janacek. "So Unutterably Anxious" is a great musical picture of - - you guessed it -- anxiety. "They Chattered like Sparrows" has great 5/4 polyrhythms and sounds cool. Several of the other movements might be appropriate, too, but I've suggested the ones that I think are harmonically most modern (though still tonal).

[bleicher]

How about Bartok's Romanian Folk Dances? They are completely different from Debussy, as they're rhythmic and don't need a light touch, so you may get on better with them musically.