Whatcha workin' on??

[Antnee]

What's everybody working on nowadays?

I myself....

Bach--Italian concerto 1, fuge in C

Chopin- Heroic polonaise, Revolutionary

Beethoven-Waldstein Sonata

among other things

I would like to do some more scarlatti and start some haydn. Maybe do more Chopin etudes too.

-Tony-

[.COM]

Hello,

Sadly I'm currently working on Mozart's Turkisk March.

Don't get me wrong but I do like Turkish March. I had started on this piece a long time ago but decided to work on something a lot more challenging. I learned the whole piece except for the second page, somewhere around measure 30-50.

I would have been working on the "Revolutionary Etude", but I have a problem with my keyboard. (Long story).

-Dot out

[.COM]

Hello,

Sadly I'm currently working on Mozart's Turkish March.

Don't get me wrong but I do like Turkish March. I had started on this piece a long time ago but decided to work on something a lot more challenging. I learned the whole piece except for the second page, somewhere around measure 30-50.

I would have been working on the "Revolutionary Etude", but I have a problem with my keyboard. (Long story).

-Dot out

[.COM]

Oops. I guess I pressed enter twice.

[willcowskitz]

What's sad about Turkish March?

I'm (long term) working on Totentanz.

And others, with less priority:

Moonlight 3rd
Sibelius' March of the Finnish Jaeger Battalion piano transcrpt.
Sibelius' Finlandia piano transcription
12th Hungarian Rhapsody

[abe]

--Brahms Rhapsody in Gm (actually I'm done with it, my teacher wants me to keep it with me).

--Mendelssohn Conerto in Gm (almost done but can't get it up to performance tempo, grrr, any tips?)

--Chopin etude 0p 25, no. 9 (butterfly)
              etude Revolutionary

--WTC 1 fugue in Bb

--Mozart sonata in F (i've done 1 + 3 movement, and i'm supposed to be working on the second, but am not motivated as I don't have lessons until sept.)

[abe]

--Brahms Rhapsody in Gm (actually I'm done with it, my teacher wants me to keep it with me).

--Mendelssohn Conerto in Gm (almost done but can't get it up to performance tempo, grrr, any tips?)

--Chopin etude 0p 25, no. 9 (butterfly)
              etude Revolutionary

--WTC 1 fugue in Bb

--Mozart sonata in F (i've done 1 + 3 movement, and i'm supposed to be working on the second, but am not motivated as I don't have lessons until sept.)

[Antnee]

     ^^^ What is it with double posting ?!


             
             
               

[bachmaninov]

Well currently I'm being a "little" laid back because i just finished a competition in Sicily!

I am currently working on a upcoming "russia" competition in moscow....

-Sonata No. 2 (Third Movement) - Rachmaninoff
-Sonata No. 5 - Scriabin
-Tocatta- Prokofiev

Yes alot of heavy duty work I am really not working forward to...

In my spare time, I like to play with the Chopin Ocean Etude... And Schumanns Tocatta...

[bachmaninov]

O dont get me wrong I do not call these pieces "laid back" pieces!

What i mean by "laid back" is that... im not practicing  

[klavierkonzerte]

right now i'm working on :

the first mvt of beethoven apasionata  ( very very very hard)

chopin impromptue (not half as hard as i thought)

and when i finish those pieces i'll work on the concertos of clara schumann and kullak (the most buitfull piano concerto ever written).

[Bernardswatch]

Hugarian Rhapsody No 2  

Beethoven Symphony 7 lizst transcription - starting with the second movement

Chopin Balade in G Minor - pretty much finished although im not looking to perfect it.

Pieces which I might learn but not looked at in much detail just sight read etc;.;;

Hugarian Rhapsody No 3
Brahms Rhapsody in Gm

Im also looking to learn a few chopin noctures & waltz as they are a lot lighter to play

[DarkWind]

Rachmaninoff - G Minor Prelude
Ravel - Alborada del Gracioso
Ravel - Pavane pour une infante defunte
Chopin - Etude, Op. 10, No. 2
Schumann - Fantasiestucke, Op. 12
Rachmaninoff - Sonata No. 1
Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin

Looks more like a playlist :p.

[thierry13]

Chopin:Revolutionnary study ( finished)
           Fantaisie impromptu
Beethoven:Pathetique sonata
Liszt:Hungarian rhapsody No.2
       sonata in b minor

(among a lot more i want to eventually do  )

[shasta]

Saint-Saens Concerto No.5 ("Egyptian")
Rach's Corelli Variations
Beethoven's "Rage over a Lost Penny"
Scriabin's Nocturne for the Left Hand

[scrabble]

Chopin:
-nocturne 9/3
-etude 10/3
-etude 25/12
-ballade 3 (though I don't think I will finish this very soon)

Brahms:
-intermezzo 118/2

Bach:
-Sinfonias 7 and 10
-Prelude in c minor

[ahmedito]

Im actually in a kind of limbo. Im in a different city than my teacher, so Im not taking lessons right now and Im starting my graduate in september, but I havent recieved the list of repertoire Im supposed to be playing.... soooo, Im just keeping older pieces Ive played in shape for some recitals (got to get money to help pay for my wife's air fare) and working on some new Scarlatti sonatas....

so, what Im playing right now:

Shostakovich concerto n.1 (the one with the trumpet )
Sonata op. 90 Beethoven
Grieg 6 lyric pieces op.  68
7 different Scarlatti sonatas
Chopin Berceuse
Lachenman Ein Kinderspielen
Debussy Etude 5
Rachmaninoff etudes 4 and 5 from op. 33


and some chamber music...

[Rob47]

These days i just practice all day, i dont have a job (I realize its a blessing to not have a job when not in school and be fine), so what I've been working on is

bach toccata in d minor fantasie and fugue (pretty cool)

mozart k 284 and k330(best mozart 2nd mvt ever), no beethoven presently

chopin
-op10 n.2,  (a very helpful etude), n.4
- polonaise f#minor op.44

Liszt
-Reminsces of Robert le Diable (Valse Infernale)  (anybody know any good recordings of the opera?)
-transcendental no. 8 wild jagd (thought about feux follets then heard Mei Ting recording and decided to stop thinking about it)

Rachmaninoff

c# minor prelude (Why not i've never learned it and it is bad ass)

3rd piano concerto (overrated, its only hard because theres a million notes in each bar......and its also hard, but a winner nonetheless! although I wish I had chosen no. 2 its so much more powerful)

and of course a little Petrouchka from my boy Stravinsky which in my opion is technically (as opposed to muscially, although certain people would say technicality involves your musicality but thats not what this topic is about) much harder than Rach 3.

And a composition im writing and etude called "The Hummingbird had too much Nectar". its pretty stupid.

Anyway, happy practicing everybody, and remember stop practicing and go do something else (unmusical)  if your mind is wandering.

Rob

[thierry13]

Wow rob, since how many years you play?? You're atending pretty hard repertoire   Could you send us a midi/mp3 or a score of your composition??

[liszmaninopin]

Rautavaara Sonata no. 2
Sessions Sonata no. 2
Ligeti's Desordre, Autumn in Warsaw, and Der Zauberlehrling
Violette Sonata 6
Chopin op. 25 #12
Prokofiev Sonata #7
Ravel's Ondine and Le Gibet
Beethoven's op. 111

I've copied this list from my other post, because it hasn't changed much in the past couple of days.  Some of these pieces are brand new to me, others I'm still tangling with from a while back, lol.

[pianistsk8er]

I'm working on Ballades 1 & 4 of Chopin and some easier wedding music (Canon in D, Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring) - easy stuff, but I need it because I will be playing in one.

I'm new here, is there a place to post up recordings and have them evaluated?.. (i.e= Audition Room)

[liszmaninopin]

No, there's not really an audition room.  If you want to post something, though, just make a thread somewhere under "performance" or "students' corner"

[Rach3]

3rd piano concerto (overrated, its only hard because theres a million notes in each bar...

I disagree strongly - figuring out the technique for the fast notes is less than half of the difficulty. Maybe less. But the fast passages are very difficult by themselves, true. I spend more time working on tone and voicing, in the first movement  - it's not trivial.

I'm working on (for a while) now:

Bach, b-flat minor P&F from WTC I
Beethoven, Les Adeiux sonata (81a)
Rachmaninoff, second sonata, 1st mov.
                      third concerto, 1st mov.

and I'm starting Beethoven op. 111 sonata.

[Max]

Well I just finished Chopin Ballade 2 and Debussys Ballade, and I've been working on Chopet 10/5 for a while now..and kind of working on Mozarts Sonata 16..and I just sightread first 4 pages of Debussys Reflet dans l'eau...does that answer your question?

[belvoce]

I'm working on Beethoven sonata op.2 no.1, second movement.

[Nightscape]

I'm getting ready for college, and I'm working on:

Scarlatti: D minor sonata K517
Beethoven: Sonata op7
Liszt: La campenella etude(I can hear the sighs)
Ravel: Sonatine, Jeau deux

and Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto.

These pieces are tough, but I think that their musical difficulties outweigh thier technical difficulties.

And I agree that Petrouchka is has massive technical difficulties, just look at the left hand tremelo in the third movement!

[Rob47]

to answer thierry13 i've played since a very young age, 4, and im almost 20 now.  However, my composition is very "modest" and as I stated eearlier kind of dumb. its an etude for trills and tremolos of various intervals, but its also in a mode where, regardless of key or octave variation, every other note is raised.(It doesn't work in certain keys, so i just avoid those keys). Uhm in the end it just sounds.....interesteing.
But when its done i guess i could post a pdf and midi. My composing is still extremely weak.

Rob

[Pumpkinhead]

I'm working on:

Prokofiev sonata no. 2
Shostakovich Piano Concerto no. 2
Liszt- Mephisto Walts

Hey Rach 3, I'm also working on that prelude and fugue by Bach. How far have you gotten?

[Eusebius_dk]

These days I'm doing:

Beethoven: Sonata op. 110

Liszt: Mephisto Waltz no. 1

[rph108]

Prokofiev: Suggestion Diablique(Actually translated more like big happenings, but I guess Prokofiev thought it sounded cooler)

Chopin: Scherzo 1

Bach: WTC 1 C# Major

Liszt: Concerto 1(trying to learn everything by november for a competition! Ahhh!)

Once I finish the Prokofiev and Chopin Im going to finish Beethoven's Tempest

And also maybe Alkan's Toccatina in D minor I think. A great showoff piece.

[Shagdac]

Gottschalk: Union (almost done)!
                  Bamboula
                  La jota
Schumann-Liszt:  Widmung (Dedication)
Beethoven:  God Save the King (w/7 variations)
Rach: Prelude in G minor

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[goansongo]

I don't play as much as I used to, so I'm learning kinda slow.  Anyway, I started this piece awhile ago, but I put i off for awhile too.  And what's with all the pieces that you guys play?  It's crazy!  I mean, I have trouble just focusing on one piece and people here are practicing like... five or six pieces!  You guys must be really dedicated.  

Godowski - Chopin Etude Op. 10 No. 1

[rph108]

Well, alot of us are music majors and stuff. Plus that etude your working on is extremely difficult.

[sharon_f]

Bach French Suite #6
Beethoven Sonata in A-flat Op. 26
Brahms Intermezzo in A Op. 118, No.2
Tcherepnin Bagatelles, Op. 5