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Offline adidaschica

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what is a great contemporary piece?
on: August 24, 2004, 09:31:44 PM
hi, do you know if there is a great contemporary(20th century)or impressionest  piece to play in a competition?

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Re: what is a great contemporary piece?
Reply #1 on: August 25, 2004, 12:14:48 AM
Try Lowell Liebermann's Nocturne #3.
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Re: what is a great contemporary piece?
Reply #2 on: August 25, 2004, 01:07:07 AM
Here are a few (I am sure people will add more):

Villa Lobos – Rudepoema

Barber – Sonata

Prokofiev – Toccata, Sonatas

Debussy – Feux d’artifice, L’Isle Joyeuse

Ravel – Miroirs, Gaspard de la Nuit, Le tombeau de Couperin

Bela Bartok – Sonata

Alban Berg – Sonata

Arnold Bax – Toccata

Manuel de Falla – Fantasia Baetica

Elliott Carter – Sonata

Charles Griffes – Sonata

Camargo Guarnieri- Choro Torturado, Toccata.

Just the tip of a very large iceberg.

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Re: what is a great contemporary piece?
Reply #3 on: August 25, 2004, 01:42:44 AM
Also, the Scriabin Sonatas, and Bartok's Allegro Barbaro.

I think that Violette's Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Sonatas are great contemporary pieces, but I wouldn't recommend them for competition.

You could look into one of Sessions' Sonatas.  Mathias' Sonata #1.  For Debussy, you should look at the etude.

Offline donjuan

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Re: what is a great contemporary piece?
Reply #4 on: August 25, 2004, 01:45:41 AM
Rachmaninoff's arrangement of Flight of the Bumblebee is always a great piece- shows off chromatic scale technique and  control over the instrument, and it really isnt too difficult.
donjuan

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Re: what is a great contemporary piece?
Reply #5 on: August 26, 2004, 10:59:20 PM
How about Oscar Peterson?  ;)

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Re: what is a great contemporary piece?
Reply #6 on: August 27, 2004, 12:54:31 PM
being a bit patriotic- carl vine piano sonata it's the bomb
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Re: what is a great contemporary piece?
Reply #7 on: August 27, 2004, 11:38:10 PM
being patriotic:  ;DIn Memoriam Bela Bartok, by Lopes-Graça (in seven parts: Portico / Dance I / Incantation I / Dirge / Dance II / Incantaion II / Tribute -- Festive)

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Re: what is a great contemporary piece?
Reply #8 on: August 28, 2004, 01:38:23 AM
oh I just thought of a great work, but it isnt piano.

the American Symphony.  (I forgot who the composer is, but it is the piece from "Mr. Holland's Opus")

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Re: what is a great contemporary piece?
Reply #9 on: August 28, 2004, 01:53:22 AM
A number of the Feinberg Sonatas are excellent.

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Re: what is a great contemporary piece?
Reply #10 on: August 28, 2004, 04:24:44 AM
You might consider one of the selections from Messiaen's
Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus. Number 13, titled Noel is an absolute knockout!

Or how about one of the Ligeti Etudes?
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