i must be woefully unprepared or just have bad 'piano self esteem' i think pretty much all the 'romantic' large scale piano + orchestra works are wicked hard! i mean i've yet to pony up to any of them for fear of 'biting off more than i can chew' , usually you don't realize it until perhaps weeks/months in then what?
enough about my pitty party/jealousy/insecurity, we're all at various stages in our piano development so i can't complain, i just need to stay motivated to practice and keep growing,
still it makes me think that maybe i'm doing something wrong if at this point i still don't have the 'cojones' to step to one of those monsters (i love the grieg btw, before i expanded my horizons beyong the standard, it was by far my favorite concerto, i still find myself enjoying recordings of it i hadn't yet come across).
i guess my main contribution (if i will sound like a broken record or parrot with repitition) is
pick the one you just like better, again the work you're most passionate about is the one you will approach with the most discipline, you'll work hardest at it, and as developing musicians, i 've yet to see real benefit to picking 'the easiest work' when choosing repertoire, it's seldom even enters into the equation on my end when picking pieces to work up, i feel that once you have a resonable list in terms of your ability (
with teacher guidance)
you should probably pick the one that is most difficult for you, you'll learn more from it. i mean we practice what we suck at right? we don't neccessarily benefit for working on what we're already pretty good at correct?
PS what kind of senior recital? i've only seen two student recitals ever where a work for piano plus orchestra (with a piano ii reduction) was ever presented in the program, usually it's reserved for solo piano stuff only (and those were graduate/master's level programs). fyi there's a pretty good alkan transcription of the mozart d minor for solo piano, might be worth exploring....
okay not great video (the work is great the quality of the recording could be much better) but there aren't exactly a lot of this floating around the interwebs...