Choosing pieces for the next recital

[faa2010]

Hello, I need some suggestions in order to play in the recital of the next year.

My teacher wants her students to play 2 piano pieces.  She also wants that at least one of them to be something with Allegro.

My piano level, I am not sure at this moment, but I can tell you what I am doing right now:

I have been improving Chopin's Nocturne C# minor op 20, but I have already played it years ago. I am with Bach's Inventions 1, 4, 7, 8, which I am practicising and getting by heart. Also I am learning Mozart's Minuet in G K1 which is easier and I am getting the first two pages of Debussy's Claire de Lune, which I am having difficulties with memorization right now. Also I am practicing Chopin's Raindrops, also with problems with memorizing even if I can play it using the piano sheet.

What can you recommend me? Thanks for anticipation.

[49410enrique]

hmm does it have to be a classic from the standard repertoire? can it be modern music say from a movie? a game? do you have the freedom to choose anything in your level (or just above, usually a good idea to shoot up since you're going to improve between now and then so harder than you can handle right now is probably  about right).


how about the kapustin sonatina, it's charming, and very 'haydn-like' in many ways, rhythms can be a bit tricky but it is full of humor and wit. it is a refreshing little work where the composer dropped the virtuosic shinanigans (which i love) in favor of a simple (not easy, but simple) little tune. 

or if you want something even more modern but still lovely and seldom heard in recitals, this work from FFVII PC is so evocative, the moving open intervals give it an almost modal feel with a bit of jazzy lyricism and it really brings an 'eastern' image to light, think pagodas, or empirial palace in china, or somethign along those lines

so much music out there this is just what popped in my head while reading yours but there's way more we can come up with after thinking a while, especially with more guidelines.

[chopin1993]

Maybe some of Prokofievs Visions Fugitives could be interesting?
These are very nice and short pieces.

Good luck!

Valerie