Master Degree Recital/ All Variations Program

[sukiay]

I am going to give an recital of my master degree of piano performance.
I am thinking of giving a "all-variations-recital" program
I decided to play Bach/Busoni Chaconne
                         Beethoven Sonata OP. 109
And I just cannot think of another variations that suit my programme.
As my hands are not big and I am small (skinny) I would not decide Brahms's variations, Schumann symphonic etude or Rachmaninov's Corelli's variations...
Actally, I am thinking of Copland's Piano Variations....but it seems very difficult in the rthythm and there are chords larger than octave...(i have small hands.... )..
or Franck's PRelude CHorale and FUgue...but this piece is not related to the topic of "variations..."

Anyone has any suggestions for me?

[orangesodaking]

The one piano piece by Mendelssohn that I like: Variations Serieuses Op. 54.

You don't NEED big hands for the variations you listed. My friend just performed Schumann's symphonic etudes and his hands are my size (reach a 9th).

Don't worry about rolling big chords. I do it all the time! The only piece that I've found so far that would REALLY pose a problem is Schumann's Toccata in C Major, Op. 7. But that piece poses many OTHER problems too, haha.

[chopinspride]

Stephen Hough did a very interesting recital of waltzes and variations It was excellent!

My suggestions....

 "The Harmonious Blacksmith" Suite - Handel

Piano Sonata No. 11 - Mozart
9 Variation on a Minuet by Duport - Mozart

Variations in F Minor - Haydn

Piano Sonata Op.26 - Beethoven
Piano Sonata Op.111 - Beethoven
32 Variations in C Minor - Beethoven

Wanderer Fantasy - Schubert

Variations on a theme of Robert Schumann - Clara Schumann

Variations on a theme of Chopin - Rachmaninoff

Variations Op. 27 - Webern

Hope you like them

[lohshuhan]

how about the complete Goldberg Variations?

[mike_lang]

how about the complete Goldberg Variations?

Serkin once did it as an encore . . . Perhaps that's a thought?

[sharon_f]

Gubaidulina, Chaconne

[mike_lang]

Gubaidulina, Chaconne

Ooo!  Haven't heard that one, but I played celesta with our Wind Orchestra for her "Hour of the Soul" (or something like that, can't remember exactly - mezzo soprano and wind orchestra).  I'll have to listen!

[verywellmister]

Dutilleux Choral et Variations

[lohshuhan]

Dutilleux Choral et Variations

AH HA! Thats an excellent piece to do!! 

[orangesodaking]

How about this:

-Brahms Paganini Variations Book I
-Brahms Paganini Variations Book II
-Liszt Paganini Etude No. 6
-Muczyski Desperate Measures

(intermission - bring out second piano)

-Lutoslawski Paganini Variations for 2 pianos
-Rachmaninoff Rapsodie on a Theme by Paganini (Orchestra arranged for second piano)

[pianisten1989]

How about this:

-Brahms Paganini Variations Book I
-Brahms Paganini Variations Book II
-Liszt Paganini Etude No. 6
-Muczyski Desperate Measures

(intermission - bring out second piano)

-Lutoslawski Paganini Variations for 2 pianos
-Rachmaninoff Rapsodie on a Theme by Paganini (Orchestra arranged for second piano)

and why not add the corelli variations and the Symphonic etudes?

[liszt1022]

Looks like a program of Paganini's 24th caprice variations.

[orangesodaking]

Looks like a program of Paganini's 24th caprice variations.