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Offline vikktorious

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Help about choosing pieces. (Suggestions)
on: April 29, 2013, 04:02:34 PM
Hi it is me again, I am really sorry for bothering you guys with these topics but i really need help.
I just want you to give me some pieces that I can play them with passion, with love, big dynamics, using the Ped.  and stuff. I just want like, when I finish and look at the audience, I want them to stare in me like this O_O. But let me get this straight, I don't want any Beethoven Sonatas, or Scriabin Etudes or something. My style in playing is erm...  I just want to put as much as feelings I can in the piece, I wanna make the audience enjoy not just by listening to me, but by watching me also.
About the difficulty, I am 15 years old, playing Mozart Sonate in C, Etude Rachmaninoff g-minor, Sinding - Rustle of Spring, Tschaikovsky - October and Bach - Prelude and Fugue in B - major.
I was the absolute Laureate in Serbia 1 week ago, and I just really want to play harder and make more success. Thanks for the help, I hope u guys understood me.
Find the music in yourself and let it grow :)

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Re: Help about choosing pieces.
Reply #1 on: April 29, 2013, 04:47:26 PM
Hi !

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I just want to put as much as feelings I can in the piece

You can put feeling in any piece as long as you love it. Or maybe are you looking for a sad, melancholic piece ? Chopin nocturne kind of thing.

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I wanna make the audience enjoy not just by listening to me, but by watching me also.

So the piece has to be showy ? Do I understand you correctly ?

No Beethoven sonatas, no Scriabin Etudes. Don't you like these ?

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About the difficulty, I am 15 years old, playing Mozart Sonate in C, Etude Rachmaninoff g-minor, Sinding - Rustle of Spring, Tschaikovsky - October and Bach - Prelude and Fugue in B - major.

Er... Mozart composed four sonatas in C. Which one did you played ? Do you have the K. number ?
As for the Bach prelude and fugue, I guess this is BWV 868 from Book I.


I'll try to make some suggestions.

Some Scarlatti sonatas :

K27 :



It has some crossing hands. So I guess you could say audience would enjoy to watch it.

K213  :



This is a slow piece, very melancholic.

Schubert Impromptu, opus 90 no 4 :



Any Chopin nocturne would do. If you can play some of his etudes, they would fit the bill too.

Mendelssohn : Song without word, opus 53 no 3 :


Schumann :
Albumblätter, opus 124 no 12 :



Bunte Blätter , opus 99 no 10 :




This should get you started. There are a million more.

Offline vikktorious

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Re: Help about choosing pieces. (Suggestions)
Reply #2 on: April 29, 2013, 04:52:09 PM
1st - I like Beethoven and Scriabin too, but I cannot show my feelings enough in those pieces. And yes I want the pieces to have big contrasts so I can "dance on the chair" while playing. :)
2nd - It is the Mozart Sonata C- Major K. 330 ; 1st movement.
And thanks for the help :)
Find the music in yourself and let it grow :)

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Re: Help about choosing pieces. (Suggestions)
Reply #4 on: May 01, 2013, 01:19:54 AM
I like Beethoven and Scriabin too, but I cannot show my feelings enough in those pieces.

Then perhaps you should be looking at what you are doing, not for a piece that will generate the magic.
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