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Offline lousyplayer

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Piece that expresses anger.... Help anyone?
on: May 09, 2012, 07:30:12 PM
I need a piece of difficult execution (level 8 or above) that expresses rage and anger, I wanna be driven to madness. Anyone knows a good one?

Thanks

Offline pytheamateur

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Re: Piece that expresses anger.... Help anyone?
Reply #1 on: May 09, 2012, 07:34:33 PM
Chopin's Revolutionary Etude.
Beethoven - Sonata in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 12
Chopin - Fantasie Impromptu, Nocturn in C sharp minor, Op post
Brahms - Op 118, Nos 2 & 3

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Re: Piece that expresses anger.... Help anyone?
Reply #2 on: May 09, 2012, 07:47:00 PM
this piece always seemed 'angry' to me

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Re: Piece that expresses anger.... Help anyone?
Reply #3 on: May 09, 2012, 07:49:57 PM
this one too, 'madness' is an apt term, but yes anger too a somewhat (only slight) lesser degree

Offline zezhyrule

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Re: Piece that expresses anger.... Help anyone?
Reply #4 on: May 09, 2012, 07:57:23 PM
Rachmaninoff Etude-Tableaux 39/1 in C Minor



You wanted difficult n_n A little section of it seems to get less 'angry' (around 1min in) but after a little bit it goes right back to the first mood presented.
Currently learning -

- Bach: P&F in F Minor (WTC 2)
- Chopin: Etude, Op. 25, No. 5
- Beethoven: Sonata, Op. 31, No. 3
- Scriabin: Two Poems, Op. 32
- Debussy: Prelude Bk II No. 3

Offline black_keys

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Re: Piece that expresses anger.... Help anyone?
Reply #5 on: May 09, 2012, 09:20:11 PM
Liszt orage :


Yedidia Piano sonata no 3 "outcries"


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Re: Piece that expresses anger.... Help anyone?
Reply #6 on: May 09, 2012, 09:25:33 PM
Sry double post

Offline iratior

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Re: Piece that expresses anger.... Help anyone?
Reply #7 on: May 10, 2012, 03:56:55 AM
As pointed out above, Chopin 10/12 expresses a lot of anger.  Also 25/10.  Rach 39/6.  The Alkan etude in Eb minor.  Scarlatti K. 175.

Offline jas_sorian

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Re: Piece that expresses anger.... Help anyone?
Reply #8 on: May 10, 2012, 04:30:29 AM
Not sure if you could call these "angry". .

Chopin Preludes Op 28/16, 28/24
Rachmaninoff Op 3/1, 3/2

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Re: Piece that expresses anger.... Help anyone?
Reply #9 on: May 10, 2012, 04:45:05 AM


Not wholly sure the pianist read the title, though.
"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left" -- Oscar Levant

Offline brianvds

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Re: Piece that expresses anger.... Help anyone?
Reply #10 on: May 10, 2012, 05:16:55 AM
Prokofiev's three "war" sonatas - numbers 6, 7 and 8. You will go far to find anything more ferocious. :-)
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