Etudes-->beautiful, fun to play

[chopin4life]

Hi all,

Please give me some suggestions of lesser known etudes (not chopin or czerny).
I need one to play on my piano exam next year, it needs to be beautiful, fun to play and also a little bit impressive

To give you an idea (in terms of difficulty and style): Bortkiewicz op 15 no 9 or the transcription from Piazolla's tango etude no 3.

Please mention any fun stuff you want!
Thanks for your help.

Chopin4life

[j_menz]

Off both my shelf (except the Sorabji) and the beaten track:

Charles Alkan - Op 35
Anton Arensky - Op 74
William Baines - Piano Etude or one of the three Concert Studies (Exaltation, Radiance or the Naiad)
William Bolcom - 12 New Etudes
Georges Cziffra - Etudes de Concert pour piano
Marc-Andre Hamelin - 12 Etudes
John Harbison - Gatsby Etudes
Robert Helps - Three Etudes
Alistair Hinton - Etude en forme de Chopin
Miriam Hyde - Three Concert Studies for Piano
Nikolai Kapustin Op 40 8 Concert Etudes
Gyorgy Ligeti - Etudes (18)
Gary Noland - Three Penitential Exercises
Rodion Shchedrin - Concert Etude for Piano (Tchaikovsky's Etude)
Kaikhosru Sorabji - 100 Transcendental Studies
Karol Szymanowski - Op 33 Etudes
Carl Tausig 2 Concert Etudes Op 1

[mjames]

Man what the hell J


No Liadov?

Anyways, Liadov etude f major. Idk the opus number, but just youtube it and youll find it.

[visitor]

Where to begin .... About as vast an open ended question as one can get
Will dig around my archives and see what's in there , in the meantime how about this tangy little number

[j_menz]

Man what J


No Liadov?

Anyways, Liadov etude f major. Idk the opus number, but just youtube it and youll find it.

Haha - I probably have it, but in a book called "Selected Works", so not immediately apparent.

[outin]

Anyways, Liadov etude f major. Idk the opus number, but just youtube it and youll find it.

op 37

There's also op 40a (c sharp minor ), op 48a (a major)

And J-menz, why no Scriabin?

[j_menz]

And J-menz, why no Scriabin?

He doesn't qualify as "lesser known". Same for Rachmaninoff, Debussy and various others.

Ligeti only just scraped in on that account, as he appears to be flavour of the month in the etude stakes in competitions at present.

[outin]

He doesn't qualify as "lesser known". Same for Rachmaninoff, Debussy and various others.

Oh, missed that...Although I think anyone's are lesser known than Chopin's

[lazyfingers]

What about Adolf von Henselt's Etudes?

His Op. 2 #6 "Si oiseau j'étais" (Were I a bird) is particularly beautiful.

[visitor]

+1 to the nod for Addy Henselt. ESP that lovely birdy one

On a smilar light and airy feel is this one

[chopin4life]

Thank you all for your replies!

And J-menz, you understand exactly what I meant with lesser known.. 

[visitor]

[visitor]

2nd one from the set of ten miniatures in etude form  

eighth one

[visitor]

Ephraim Podgaits - Polyphonic Etudes for Piano
first really hooks you, I love the jazz influence of no 2, no 3 is particulary lyrical with a nice pop quality, great energy for no 4

still alive, member of Russian union of composers, would be a good addition to the thread asking for contemporary music.
https://www.podgaits.info/biografiya_.htm

[mjames]

HOLY sh*t VISITOR YOU *** HIPSTER, THANK YOU!

I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THOSE ETUDES/COMPSER FOR 3 YEARS!!!!!!

I stumbled upon them while i was browsing in the public library, liked them and that was it. I tried googling polyphonic etudes but it never came up. *** THANK YOU.

I LOVE YOU

[visitor]

....
I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THOSE ETUDES/COMPSER FOR 3 YEARS!!!!!!

I stumbled upon them while i was browsing in the public library...

I LOVE YOU

if you copied them for your own use, can you PM me the call reference number (if you have it on the cover or on one of the pages)? I have looked for these inthe past but worldcat seems intent on skipping over the publication. I want to try and see if my library can request via interlibrary lending services aka ILL;
or at least if you don't have the call number, can you PM me the library name so I can try get my peeps to speak with your peeps?  
if none of the above is good, no worres, glad I could get some eyes and ears on that kat. the music is good yo.

[visitor]

Vasilije Mokranjac
Others are on the host channel here the awesome no 1

[carl_h]

You could take a look at the Etudes composed by Felix Blumenfeld.
For example Etude Op. 14 "Sur Mer", Etude de Concert in F sharp minor Op. 24 and many more.

Grts,

[visitor]

Vasilije Mokranjac
Others are on the host channel here the awesome no 1

could not help posting this example too, very nice live recording of another, Serbian music deserves more exposure outside that region, very unique mixes and influences make for really fantastic works, espcially vocal/choral

[pianoman8]

Scriabin, Debussy