Pieces for recital

[wriggletto]

Bach Busoni Chaconne
Rigoletto Paraphrase by Liszt
Appassionata
Liszt Piano Concerto No1

A friend asked me to put together some programme notes on the above pieces, just short, around 3-4 lines for each -about the piece and composer - but I have no idea where to start. Since there are so many pianists here, I though I'd try here for some help!

Could someone please help me out a bit? Thanks.

[comme_le_vent]

why doesnt he do it?

since hes the expert, right?

[wriggletto]

Because he's really busy, we both have school and I'm trying to help him out. I'm sorry to bother you but I really don't know where to start. If you don't want to help, it's ok, but I didn't think it was necessary to make sarcastic comments.

[kempff]

ok, here is a bit about Liszt 1st piano concerto. Hope it helps:

Liszt wrote seven works for piano and orchestra, but called only two of them concertos. The origins of the first of them date back to 1830, when he was just 19, but the work didn't reach its final form until 1853. The composer himself was the soloist in the premiere two years later in Weimar, with Berlioz as conductor. For lovers of musical trivia, Liszt's Piano Concerto No 1 is the answer to the question:"What famous work's finale begins with a solo triangle?"
The four movements, played without a break, are one of the finest examples of the composer's mastery of cyclic form, in which the first theme is subjected to a sequence of radical transformations to yield the sharply contrasted ideas on which the whole structure is built.

[sharon_f]

Do a Goggle search on each. I'm sure you will get back a huge amount of information.