Hard and "stunning" piano pieces?

[lyndsey791]

I'm looking for a piano piece for competition that has delicate and loud parts, that's under 10 minutes(: I prefer pieces in a minor key.

My hands are a bit small.

Pieces like:

Rachmaninov Prelude in G Minor
Lizst La Campanella
Lizst Grande Valse Etude
Brahms Hungarian Rhapsody in B Minor
Beethoven Sonata "Appassionata" Movement 1
Chopin Sonata no.2 in B Flat Minor

[nocturnetr]

Prokofiev- Toccata Op. 11. I am a worshipper of Prokofiev and Toccata Op. 11 is my bible. So disagree and I shall tear your soul apart

[j_menz]

A Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody perhaps? Or from Alkan, aime moi or la morte from trois morceaux dans le genre pathetique Op15, salut, cendre le pauvre or super fulmina babyloniae.

[49410enrique]

um hello. i'm alex's op 28. you can call me fantasie.  you are all about to get owned. i'm sorta sorry. sorta not though. you shouldn't have even bothered to show up. that's okay. i'll be done in about 9-10 minutes.

yeah i think it could totally play out like that between the scores in the judge's pile.

btw you have not heard these works if you have not heard sofrinsky. just sayin'.

[49410enrique]

maybe a nice rhapsody?

[49410enrique]

also one of my favorites, percy grainer, lots of great impressive and 'stunning' pieces to choose from this is a nice middle length one. not too short and not right at that 10 minute mark

[49410enrique]

um you all didn't think i'd pass up the chance to give kapustin a shout out did you?
um yeah, this is such a bad a$$ piece!

[j_menz]

I should also put in a plug for some of the Tausig transcriptions.  Very effective at knocking socks off!

[gearmenta]

Ondine or Scarbo form Gaspard de la Nuit

[ahinton]

A Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody perhaps? Or from Alkan, aime moi or la morte from trois morceaux dans le genre pathetique Op15, salut, cendre le pauvre or super fulmina babyloniae.

Good suggestions, although I think that, by "fulmina", you mean "flumina" (unless some external irony is at work here!)...

What about Sorabji's Toccatinetta - an unique example of one of his big ambitious multi-movement piano works squeezed into a mere handful of minutes?

Best,

Alistair

[emrysmerlin]

C.V Alkan and F. Liszt both have a lot of flashy bits.

La campanella is overplayed. The main theme is also not that musical, though very much craved.

How about Gershwin's Rhaps' in Blue, or how about a hamelin etude? How about Busoni's Elegy No. 4 'Turandots Frauengemach'?

[j_menz]

I think that, by "fulmina", you mean "flumina" (unless some external irony is at work here!)...

Indeed I do.

My keyboard appears to have a somewhat bizarre sense of humour. 

[pianoplayjl]

I love this piece. Very colourful.

JL