Those pieces

[perprocrastinate]

Do you have a set of pieces that you always have memorized because you love them so much?

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Everything in my repertoire.




With the exception of Bach.

[adari]

Everything in my repertoire.

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[fftransform]

Scriabin's Vers la Flamme and Sonata No. 9, approximately the first half of Lemma-Icon-Epigram, Herma, most of Ustvolskaya's Sonata No. 5, Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues, Prokofiev's Toccata, Ondine from Gaspard, Liszt's Ballade No. 2/Tannhauser/Chasse-Neige/Fusees/Dante Sonata, a few Scarlatti Sonatas, the first movement of Boulez's Deuxieme Sonate, Etude pour les Sonorites Opposees, the prelude from Shostakovich's Prelude and Fugue No. 22, 2nd movement of Mozart's Sonata K. 280.  Maybe a couple more, but can't think of them off the top of my head.  They're memorized because they're what I tend to play when just "messing around," so to speak.

[danhuyle]

Liszt La Campanella, TE5, TE10
Chopin 4 Scherzi, Ballade 4, Etude 10/12
Scriabin Sonata no2, Etude Op8 no5,12

Pieces I can pull out of a hat - That's my definition of pieces I always have memorized.

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Scriabin's Vers la Flamme and Sonata No. 9

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[49410enrique]

Scriabin's Vers la Flamme and Sonata No. 9, approximately the first half of Lemma-Icon-Epigram, Herma, most of Ustvolskaya's Sonata No. 5, Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues, Prokofiev's Toccata, Ondine from Gaspard, Liszt's Ballade No. 2/Tannhauser/Chasse-Neige/Fusees/Dante Sonata, a few Scarlatti Sonatas, the first movement of Boulez's Deuxieme Sonate, Etude pour les Sonorites Opposees, the prelude from Shostakovich's Prelude and Fugue No. 22, 2nd movement of Mozart's Sonata K. 280.  Maybe a couple more, but can't think of them off the top of my head.  They're memorized because they're what I tend to play when just "messing around," so to speak.

That's really awesome. Especially with it being more modern in nature (me I have the hardest time getting it memorized, that is 20th cent.  pieces seem to take me forever, and I tend to forget them the quickest).

Your post did make me chuckle, in a good way not in a 'laughing at you way' with the statement and  juxtaposition of the list of great and difficult repertoire followed by the statement that you pretty much 'couldn't recall' the easier (at least it seems that way) information with regard to remembering what it is you remember! Funny how memory and recall work and sometimes don't want to work together it's happened to me before when studying for exams where I know what I should know for application of the informaton, but if asked to list out what I know and can apply I would probably struggle with it at first.

Again though just a casual/informal congrats on some great pieces under your belt, I wish I had something half as substantial at my beck and call at any given moment.

[asuhayda]

I never remember any of my pieces... what was the question again?

[j_menz]

I don't memorise anything, so no. But, I do have the scores at hand.

[scherzo123]

Everything in my repertoire.




With the exception of Bach.

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[perprocrastinate]

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How do you manage to memorize absolutely everything you learn? Over the years, it must be a chore to maintain each and every single piece!

I have these pieces memorized (and never hope to forget them anytime soon): Chopin Etude Op. 10-12, Chopin Etude Op. 25-12, Bach Invention #1, Bach Invention #4

I really tried to recall several more pieces after a three week vacation, but I got sick of learning them a second time, despite the fact that I still want to play them. Oh well, gonna be stuck with my tiny tiny repertoire until I can muster the motivation to relearn pieces.