What is everyone learning at the moment?

[ayahav]

sorry about the last post..... the "x" didn't really work out... but you get my drift....

[sjaak]

hi right now i'm working on :

Brahms op.117 no.2
a VERY boring Czerny etude
the aria from Bach's Goldberg Variations
Ain't misbehavin' from ''fats'' Waller....fun to play

just finished:

first variation from the goldberg variations

[JTownley]

 I'm learning the Finale from "Appassionata"
https://www.JoeTownley.com      Lots of piano videos!!

[Reoreo111]

i'm working on chopin's ballade 1 op. 23
revolutionary etude
and a bach prelude/fugue

[Mellbell57]

I'm learning:

Ravel- Sonatine

Chopin- Polonaise in A-flat

And probably some others that I'm not working on right now, such as:

Schubert- Impromptu Op. 90 no. 1?

But I haven't been able to practice any of them except for the polonaise b/c we're moving and my mom packed the piano music early on purpose  

[Aurelio]

• Moszkowsky - Etudes for the left hand op. 92.  I have just started number 6.
  
• plan to play two more of these etudes
  
• Also, the left hand of Bach Prelude & Fugue 10 (first book)

and hoping to be a two hands piano student after summer

[Aurelio]

Hey ayahav!!

I have just seen your post,

What a insteresting thing for me is that Bach-Brahms transcription for the left hand!!!

I think I'm going to seek for the score and add to my temporary left hand repertoire for this summer.

Thanks a lot for the idea!!

[88keys]

For my recital in October, for which some of you provided me with great practicing and preforming tips:

Chopin's Etudes from Op. 10: Nos. 3, 4, 6, 9 and 12.
My own Etudes, Op. 52: Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 18.

And my current Beethoven pick, which I practice on my spare time:

Beethoven's Sonata #31 in Ab,  Op. 110. A kind of wierd piece, but very beautiful.

[liszmaninopin]

I am working (albeit somewhat slowly) on Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto #1.  I am also working on Rachmainoff's Preludes op. 23 #4 and 5.

[Franz_Liszt]

I'm learning Mozart's 11th Sonata and Beethoven's 30th Sonata

[sasson]

Chopin's Waltz Op 69, No 2. (Posthumous)
and CPE Bach's Solfeggietto...

S~

[Franz_Liszt]

I learning Beethoven 30th Sonata , and Mozart's 11th Sonata.

[eddie92099]

I am learning:
Liszt: La Campanella
Ravel: Scarbo
Prokofiev: 7th Sonata
Beethoven: Appassionata
..and dabbling in Prokofiev's 2nd Concerto and Liszt's Totentanz

I'm about to start Rautavaara's 2nd sonata though - slightly more obscure!

Ed

[Irock1ce]

right now workin on:
Schubert - Impromptu op.90 no.4
Beethoven - Waldstein Sonata (complete)
Chopin - Etude op.25 no.1

messin around with Brahms 51 exercises..    

[amee]

I'm learning -

Chopin's Berceuse
Debussy's "La Danse de Puck" from Preludes Bk 1
Bach Prelude and Fugue no 16 Bk 1
Mozart Sonata K 309
Rachmaninoff Prelude op 32 no 12

Also playing around with a Beethoven Sonata and some Brahms.

[ThEmUsIcMaNBJ]

New stuff I'm working on are these...

Chopin: Scherzo No.3
Beethoven: Sonata Op.31 No.3
then just finishing up op 10 no. 5 etude...  and have to finish that stupid rach moment musical #4...  so close, just lazy!

[Davek]

new pieces i'm learning:
beethoven- sonata op.13
chopin- sonata op.58
mendelssohn- Fantasy in f-sharp minor
bach- wtc bk1-#2
chopin- etude op.10 #4 ,op.25 #7
haven't chosen with concerto i will do but i will soon

[Ktari]

eddie, Gaspard de la Nuit is SOOOOO cool!!

hehe, I'm going for a senior recital, so new pieces right now would be:

Concerto #3 (Prokofief)
Nocturne #10 (Faure)
Sonata #1 (Ginastera)
Partita #6 Toccata (Bach)
Transcendental #10 (Liszt)

and then hoping to (around spring) bring back La Campanella (Liszt) and Jeux d'Eau (Ravel).. hehe kind of an unbalanced recital, but *shrugs* just for high school graduation, for fun, so it's OK i figure ^^

[rachfan]

I have very limit practice time, and at the moment I'm concentrating on Scriabin's Etude Op. 42, No. 6 in D flat, which I find sufficiently challenging.

[e60m5]

I changed teacher, so with that, comes a change in repertoire -

Now learning:

Rachmaninov: Preludes Op.23 no.4, 6, 7
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto no.3
Chopin: Nocturne Op.27 no.2
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody no.2

So, a big change in repertoire for me. However, I expect the solo repertoire to be finished in a couple of weeks at most, and the Concerto will probably take somewhat longer.

[dinosaurtales]

Boy!  You guys work on lots of stuff at once!  My teacher is trying to keep me from doing that.  RachFan seems to be the only one with a *real* schedule like mine.  I am now da**ed near done with the Field and Cramer sonatas - cleaning up stuff, and ready for *maintenance* mode.  No lessons in August.  

When I return for September, the plan is to dig into Prokofiev's 2nd Sonata, and Beethoven's Appassionata.  She seems to think I can do them.  The Beethoven looks pretty nasty, especially the first movement.  Lots of fussy stuff.

RachFan - what's the Scriabin like?  I've never played anything by him.  Difficult?  

[eddie92099]

Yeh Ktari Gaspard is awesome...especially when Argerich plays it! I have just today started Horowitz's Carmen Variations too,
Ed

[chopinetta]

March of the Dwarfs by Grieg and Mozart's sonata k576!!! oh no! i have to have a chopin these days!

[jlh]

Here's what I'm learning right now:

Prokofiev - Sonata No. 3
Chopin - Fantasy in F minor
Mozart - Concerto in A Major

I'm also re-learning the Rach 2nd concerto for a competition in January.

[eddie92099]

Fantastic reportoire Jlh! Is the Mozart concerto the 23rd (K.488)? I just studied this for AS level in UK. The other two pieces are great too,
Ed

[shas]

Beethoven:
Pathetiqu (1st&2nd mouvment)
Appasionata (2nd mouvment)

Mozart:
Fantasy in D min
Rondo in F (this is easy and boring as hell but i must learn it)

Hummel:
Romance in G

Manny group Jazz pieces

[rachfan]

Hi Dino,

Sorry it's taken awhile for me to respond, but haven't had much chance to visit the forum lately.  On your Scriabin question, he's probably my next favorite composer after Rachmaninoff, yet in all of my years, I've never played his music!  At first I thought I'd start with a few of his preludes, but wanted a bigger challenge, but not the sonatas quite yet.  

I love the Op. 42 Etudes--all so different and hauntingly beautiful.  The interesting thing about this opus is that Scriabin set up each piece around polyrhythms.  Hey, these are studies, after all!  Consequently, nothing is easy in there.  So, for example, in the No. 6 in D flat I am doing (whenever I can find a small shred of time), we find a study of  5 against 3 and then 5 against 4 toward the end to further complicate things.  If that were not bad enough, the RH is melody and accompiament in the same hand, and the 5th finger works overtime trying to cope with voicing the melody.  It's crucial to keep the foreground and background constantly in perspective in this piece.  The rich LH features challeging arpeggios, some of which require finger transfers in the fingering to avoid leaps and difficult stretches.  Oh, and the speed is MM a quarter = 100.  You also have to watch the accidentals like a hawk, as he throws in plenty of naturals within the D flat tonality to get the characteristic Scriabin sound.  There is also a lot of choreography of the elbows, lower arms and hands, I find.  If all of this makes the piece sound frenetic, it's actually supposed to be the reverse.  The mood is really a quiet, seductive, ultra-romantic restlessness.  I hope I'm up to playing this piece.  But it's not easy.  If you want to hear it, Ruth Laredo does a superb job of it on her Scriabin 2-CD set on Nonesuch.  

I don't feel too bad about this.  After Scriabin's death Rachmaninoff, a friend who had been at the conservatory with Scriabin, assembled a recital program of Scriabin's music and took it on tour as a memorial.  The recitals weren't well received in Russia.  So everyone has had their moments with this music!

[Infernal_Nerd]

Im working on:
Chopin: Waltz op. 69 n.2,
Beethoven: Sonata No. 20 Op. 49 n.2,
Perfecting Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca and soon will start going over Chopin's Op.10 No.3  

I think I need to work on more pieces  :-/
Are the Beethoven's and Chopin's pieces I'm working on are far (by level) from Tristesse (Etude Op.10 n.3 in E Major)?

[xenon]

I'm working on:

-Chopin: Etude Op. 10 No. 12 (Revolutionary)
-Beethoven: Sonata Op. 10 No. 2 1st mvt
-Granados: Laments, or The Maiden and the Nightengale

I'll be getting more repertoire next lesson .

[ahmedito]

Hmm preparing a competition and its my final year before my masters degree, so Im fairly loaded with material right now...

For the Grieg piano competition:
- Bach WTC book 1, #7
- Mozart k309 sonata
- Debussy etude book 1, #5
- Grieg 6 lyric pieces op. 68
- Prokovief 5th piano sonata in C major
- Grieg concerto

For the Morelia international festival of music:
- Shostakovitch piano concerto 1

For Chamber music graduation:
- Beethoven 2nd violin sonata
- Beethoven 5th violin sonata (spring)
- Mozart k301 violin sonata
- Bartok 2 pianos and percusion sonata

For acompainment graduation
- Schumman love and life of a woman song cycle
- Bach coffee cantata
- Gershwin songs (summertime, Ive got rythim)

For audition for masters:
- Beethoven op. 90 sonata
- Chopin fantasie-polonaise


UGH.... this is a lot, I just needed to write it down to get some perspective, my head is spinning. Im waking up at 4 am to practice all all the chamber music and acompainment, start classes at 9:00 and then put in the rest of the day for the piano stuff...
Remember, when youre feeling pressured, believe in god, and love others... thats about it.

[thracozaag]

Hi Dino,

Sorry it's taken awhile for me to respond, but haven't had much chance to visit the forum lately.  On your Scriabin question, he's probably my next favorite composer after Rachmaninoff, yet in all of my years, I've never played his music!  At first I thought I'd start with a few of his preludes, but wanted a bigger challenge, but not the sonatas quite yet.  

I love the Op. 42 Etudes--all so different and hauntingly beautiful.  The interesting thing about this opus is that Scriabin set up each piece around polyrhythms.  Hey, these are studies, after all!  Consequently, nothing is easy in there.  So, for example, in the No. 6 in D flat I am doing (whenever I can find a small shred of time), we find a study of  5 against 3 and then 5 against 4 toward the end to further complicate things.  If that were not bad enough, the RH is melody and accompiament in the same hand, and the 5th finger works overtime trying to cope with voicing the melody.  It's crucial to keep the foreground and background constantly in perspective in this piece.  The rich LH features challeging arpeggios, some of which require finger transfers in the fingering to avoid leaps and difficult stretches.  Oh, and the speed is MM a quarter = 100.  You also have to watch the accidentals like a hawk, as he throws in plenty of naturals within the D flat tonality to get the characteristic Scriabin sound.  There is also a lot of choreography of the elbows, lower arms and hands, I find.  If all of this makes the piece sound frenetic, it's actually supposed to be the reverse.  The mood is really a quiet, seductive, ultra-romantic restlessness.  I hope I'm up to playing this piece.  But it's not easy.  If you want to hear it, Ruth Laredo does a superb job of it on her Scriabin 2-CD set on Nonesuch.  

I don't feel too bad about this.  After Scriabin's death Rachmaninoff, a friend who had been at the conservatory with Scriabin, assembled a recital program of Scriabin's music and took it on tour as a memorial.  The recitals weren't well received in Russia.  So everyone has had their moments with this music!

 I'm a Scriabin freak...learned all the sonatas.  The Opus 42 are really quite magnificent, but can't really agree on the Ruth Laredo comment.  There's a fabulous all Scriabin recital that Richter did in the 60's that's available on Monitor records.  The 6th Sonata and op. 65 etudes, in particular are phenomenal.  Horowitz and Sofronitsky are the other two prime Scriabinists.

[eddie92099]

Remember, when youre feeling pressured, believe in god, and love others... thats about it.

Can we stop talking about god, this is a world-wide forum,
Ed

[Irock1ce]

yeah plz.. im an athiest.. and to say that... leaves me out and makes me sad  

[DaNiElLe]

Hey guys

im learning

Bach - Gavotte
Bach - Prelude and Fugue in B (#21)
Telemann - Fantasia no. 1
Kuhlau - one of the Sonatas (cant remember which)
Grieg - Schmetterling
Chopin - Raindrop Prelude
Chopin - Waltz in A minor (Posthumous)
Liszt - Etude in D minor
Kabalevsky - Sonatina in A minor
Ross Edwards - Jubilation Mantra
Granados - Minueto from 12 Danzas Espanolas
Pieczonka - Tarantella
Beethove - Moonlight Sonata
Soler - Sonata No. 84 in D major


DaNiElLe

[thracozaag]

Learning:

Liszt-Valse Oubliee #1
Liszt/Horowitz-Rakoczy March

Maintaining:
Berg Sonata
Scriabin Sonatas #4, 7
Nancarrow Tango? (*shudder*)
Couple of Soler and Scarlatti sonatas
Vallee D(oh!)Bermann (the horowitz version)
Copland Sonata
Bunch of chopin mazurkas, scriabin preludes....

[jakester]

Thracozaag - that's quite a handfull!

As for me.. I'm not quite up to those standards.. Just a couple of chopin preludes at the moment.

Jakester

[jlh]

Fantastic reportoire Jlh! Is the Mozart concerto the 23rd (K.488)? I just studied this for AS level in UK. The other two pieces are great too,
Ed

Yes, I think that's the one.  I just started work on that one, hope it's easy to learn...

[buck]

Beethoven - Für Elise  (finally!!)  

I'm so ecstatic that my teacher finally going to teach me that (though me only grade 2)..  heh heh..  

[rachfan]

Hi Thracozaag,

I've heard of that Richter recorded Scriabin recital before.  I'll try to get it, as it is mentioned as the last word.  Thanks.

[ned]

RachFan:
I have the Richter on vinyl. I bought it in 1970. First time I had heard the Sixth Sonata or the etude in ninths. In those days there were almost no Scriabin recordings available in the US.  I was pretty excited to get this record. Richter in his notebooks says about his own recording:
"The Scriabin is a live recording; there are quite a few wrong notes in the 6th Sonata, but it's still not without interest and has a certain life and integrity to it. As for the op. 65 etudes, they are not without merit. At all events, they're not a disaster." Richter was definitely not easily satisfied! What he writes about some other pianists can be devastating, including Horowitz, Ashkenazy, Michelangeli and Pollini.
I think Laredo is very good. I heard her live in the Scriabin Third Sonata and it was magnificanet. She has lots of power and a sensual quality that fit the music perfectly. I don't think the old Connoisseur label (now Nonesuch?) did justice to her superb tone quality. I heard Richter live several times. To me he was a true ascetic. His playing struck me as brittle, not well suited to Chopin for example, but great for Schubert, Beethoven. Prokofiev, and many others. He never performed the Scriabin Third Sonata in public so I can't compare him to Laredo on that piece. Have you heard Sofroniztky's recordings of Scriabin? Great! His Chopin is good too. Actually very close to Artur Rubinstein's. I was surprised.
Ned

[thracozaag]

Hi Thracozaag,

I've heard of that Richter recorded Scriabin recital before.  I'll try to get it, as it is mentioned as the last word.  Thanks.

 There's also a PHENOMENAL live Scriabin 5th sonata (from Italy, I believe) that's available on DG. Enjoy.

[bachopoven]

Just completed:

One of the Beethoven German Dance
One of the Mozart Minuets ( I don't pay attention to the keys or Opus. No.s I will in the future.)

Now Learning:

Beethoven Ecossaise
Fur Elise (the variations, already learned the 'chorus.')
Chopin Prelude in E min
Other small pieces by Turk
And some other small pieces.

[bachopoven]

yeah plz.. im an athiest.. and to say that... leaves me out and makes me sad  

then believe.

[eddie92099]

then believe.

If only life were that simple,
Ed

[xenon]

Sure, life is simple: Eat, sleep, Play Piano

Not to mention school, piano lessons, masterclasses, reciitals, competitions, homework, etc

I understand that some people are offended by the subject of God, and that religion should not be brought up on an international internet-based forum.  But one should not feel left out becuase of the opinions and beliefs of others.  Everyone is entitled to their own belief.

I would normally be converting the heathens but I do realize that these are new times now, where the seperation of church and state is critical.  It is a shame though that some people hide behind this to limit free speech.

[eddie92099]

"Whilst religion remains, we shall live in backward times."

How's that for profundity in the morning? Do you think I could be the next Nietzsche?
Ed  

[TwinkleFingers]

whether people want to face religion or not,  ALL will face judgement in the end.  Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved.  The question is, where do you want to spend eternity?  do you want eternal suffering where people weep and nash teeth??  I can see your heart is very hardened.  Dont feel bad about it.  God will change you if it's His will.  I pray that He will. God Bless.
P.S. when you said can we stop talking about (G)od (capital G),  who was talking about it?  I scrolled up and couldn't find anyone.  

[eddie92099]

Remember, when youre feeling pressured, believe in god, and love others... thats about it.

I'll spend eternity in a coffin,
Ed

[TwinkleFingers]

that would be better than hell. unfortunatly it is not an option.  And there is a supreme being that will judge you, me, and every other person who existed on the face of this planet.  and funny you guys say to stop talking about God, and yet you have to turn it into a debate every time.  its like Jack Nicholson,"you can't handle the truth!"

Ed,and all other religious debaters, I've started a religious debate topic in the miscellaneous forum.  We all can go there and stop this nonsense of getting "off the topic".

[TwinkleFingers]

JTownley, do you have any videos with closeups of your hands??  very nice playing.  Light years ahead of me!!LOL