Looking for ideas (masters degree concert)

[genny]

I need to prepare a final concert for my master's degree in interpretation piano.

All my lif I have chosen very technically difficult repertoire, to sort of give myself confidence.. Like in sports you know, you get points just for the lever of difficulty.. But I have not played for a while and I feel more tired etc..

So I am looking for repertoire that is still very dense (my specialty), but not the type that makes you tired jsut thinking about playing it... For example, I am working on Liszt'S Mephisto waltz and I find that I get tired just thinking about practicing it... Dont get me wrong, I can do it, but I think I might enjoy playing more from something a little less demanding...

I thought about the Bach-Busoni chaconne in d minor... But what else? Any ideas?

Thanks! Dont forget, I would like something quite dense, as that is the most comfortable for me... !

Gen

[j_menz]

How on earth do you get to the end of a Masters in piano without an extensive knowledge of repertoire? What do they teach people? 

[genny]

I came here to share with fellow musicians... It's not about what I know or dont know (which you have no idea obviously, you got my question wrong)

Where do people like you come from? What triggers such rude and aggressive behavior, other then the easiness of the web's anonymity... I will never understand...

You must be a very unhappy person, very sad...

[j_menz]

you got my question wrong

Apparently. But if your not looking for piece suggestions, what is your question?

[liszt1022]

give
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[thalbergmad]

Where do people like you come from? What triggers such rude and aggressive behavior

Well, he comes from Australia which sorts of answers your question.

The Bach - Busoni has been played to death. Why not try the Brahms left hand version which has not.

Thal

[perfect_pitch]

Well, he comes from Australia which sorts of answers your question.

EXCUSE ME??? I live in Australia, and I don't ask stupid questions like that. Granted I was actually born in Scotland, but I live in Australia now.

[ranniks]

Where do people like you come from? What triggers such rude and aggressive behavior, other then the easiness of the web's anonymity... I will never understand...

You must be a very unhappy person, very sad...

Calm your horses. j_menz isn't sad at all for your information. He's a nice person and helpful.

[rachmaninoff_forever]

You must be a very unhappy person, very sad...

Normally I would agree with you just to be on the opposite side of J Menz...

But...

He's a pretty normal person.

That's all you get J Menz!!!  You got that?!

[thalbergmad]

Granted I was actually born in Scotland

Then it would be drunk stupid questions

Thal

[j_menz]

The Bach - Busoni has been played to death. Why not try the Brahms left hand version which has not.

There's an arrangement of the Bach-Busoni by Alexander Siloti, which is in many ways superior to the original, and which doesn't get nearly enough attention.

See, I can be nice.  I just can't generally be bothered.

And I still don't get how one can get to the end of a masters in piano and not have a list of stuff a mile long on one's "top play" list. I don't even get how that list hasn't been being worked on and expended since about grade 2.

[j_menz]

a pretty normal person.

Just pretty. I try and avoid normalcy. It's so average.

[genny]

You can know a million pieces and still want to talk with others and get "ideas"... You are truly assuming a lot of things...

As for getting to the end of a master degree in interpretation.. It is all about "how" you play dear. Not how many pieces you know. When you are sitting on that piano for your concert... It's about your performance.

I would be curious.. How old are you? What is your level? Do you have videos of yourself playing the piano? A website? I would love to hear you, seriously.

[j_menz]

You can know a million pieces and still want to talk with others and get "ideas"...

Agreed. I apologise if I misread your post, but we do get a lot of "what do I play now" questions here, and from pianists who, in my opinion, should have some ideas to start with. You just didn't give us much to start from, so your question was very broad. A sharing of repertoire is a wonderful thing, but it does seem to need a starting point unless it is to be rather to broad to be useful. There are any number of threads like that here, and they generally degenerate into a list of peoples current favourite pieces, regardless of context.

As for interpretation being about how well you play rather than how many pieces, that is to some extent true. But how does one apply sufficient context to one's interpretation unless one has played a wide variety of pieces?

[genny]

At the end of the day: if it works it works. If you sit down on that piano, do your concert and get an A+, then who the f*** cares about everything else.

I am a bit tired of that snobbish attitude between musicians. There is not just one way to do things, the important is the result. When it's a masters exam, you want a good grade, when it's a concert, you want to like what you did and have other people enjoy it..

[j_menz]

At the end of the day: if it works it works.

I am merely questioning what can possibly work.

If you sit down on that piano, do your concert and get an A+, then who the f*** cares about everything else.

I am a bit tired of that snobbish attitude between musicians. There is not just one way to do things, the important is the result. When it's a masters exam, you want a good grade, when it's a concert, you want to like what you did and have other people enjoy it..

Not being someone interested in exams, the whole "if I get a good grade that's all that counts" has no application to me. It didn't even do so in the fields I did study at university, though I admit it did enter into the equation. 

I still don't quite understand what you were originally asking, though.

[lostinidlewonder]

...So I am looking for repertoire that is still very dense (my specialty), but not the type that makes you tired jsut thinking about playing it... For example, I am working on Liszt'S Mephisto waltz and I find that I get tired just thinking about practicing it... Dont get me wrong, I can do it, but I think I might enjoy playing more from something a little less demanding...

I thought about the Bach-Busoni chaconne in d minor... But what else? Any ideas?

Thanks! Dont forget, I would like something quite dense, as that is the most comfortable for me...

You want "dense" pieces, but Mephisto waltz no x is too tiring and not what you want. What is dense? If "dense" is your specialty then Mephisto waltz must not be dense enough for you.

You have mentioned 2 pieces in the entire piano repertoire which is not enough information for people to go by, so you will just get random answers thrown at you.

You might want to consider choosing pieces which reflect your experience at the piano, not just pick and choose whatever there is in the piano repertoire and paste it all together as a presentation disregarding your own experience.

[genny]

This is circular..Thanks for your time...