Bravo! This is a real novelty piece, and the pastiche variations serve as an homage to those composers as well. It's perfect for an encore, which is your intent. It certainly requires virtuosity. I would imagine for a piece such as this that the composer would need to practice it as diligently as any other artist. Your wonderful performance confirms that.
Yes, I think it worked well as an encore; I'll definitely be keeping it as an option for the future!
Bravo!
Highly amusing, and well done in terms of pastiche-particularly Liszt, Alkan, and Thalberg (I think Chopin and Rachmaninoff are both a little more difficult/impossible to pastiche in this context).
Nevertheless, extremely well done! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks. Yeah, Chopin's not easy to pastiche - getting as far as Chopinesque was the best I could do whereas with the others I found it easier to pick a specific facet of their style and use that. The "Rachmaninov" is a little Hollywood-Rachmaninov, but it (probably because I had fun reharmonising everything!) and the "Alkan" are my favourite of the variations. The "Alkan" is, frankly, a direct stylistic lift of the 13th variation from Le Festin d'Esope!
Nice!
I really liked the variations, not my style but very nice nonetheless, honestly you should put this on a sheet I can see a lot of people wanting to play this.
You're quite possibly right - a pianist friend wants to try it out. Ultimately I will notate it - at the moment it exists purely in my head, other than the introduction which I have written out.
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