Juliard/General College audition repertoire

[siava95]

Dear members!

I wanted to ask you, if you would review my reportoire for the auditioning, prescreening process and the live audition itself. 

I will apply in 2015 in November/December, therefore i have to start recording my programme in august at the latest. So basically i have like 7-12 months to perfect a programme.

To give you a general level of my technical and artistical capabilities, i´ve played Liszt: 8,10,12 transcadentals,2nd rhapsody, spanish rhapsody, mephisto waltz, a campanella,gnomenreigen, paganini etude, some other liszt etudes, , of prokofiev i have the toccata,
From Beethoven i have the waldstein and the tertz sonata in c-dur..(TERRIBLE ONE!)
I´ve played all the Chopin Scherzi except the 4th.. Now i also have some Rach preludes, and just began studying the 1st Chopin etude and the tertz etude, actually not as hard as people make it to be..
I´ve played lots of other works, these are the hardest i would say..
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Bach Prelude and Fugue:
What would you consider the best for auditioning, which both isn´t too easy(ave marie), but at the same time has a low probability of *** up due to nerveousness.
Fx the C# major, i absolutely hate to play this prelude at competitions.



Beethoven: Waldstein Sonata
Is this too overplayed, meaning that there are probably 500 others that have played this sonata for years, meaning they are really inside the piece, therefore generally will play it at a very high level




A substantial composition of Brahms,Liszt,Chopin,Schumann,Mendelssohn.
(Etudes, nocturnes, short dances, waltzes, or comparable pieces are not acceptable.)

Generally i´m not such a huge fan of playing Chopin, because everysingle body has their own twisted opinion of how Chopin should be played. I´ve also been advised at numerous competitions, if you can play Liszt instead of Chopin, then play Liszt!

For this part i´m thinking of playing either: Spanish Rhapsody, or some other very virtuos piece of Liszt, he has like dooozens. Again, not going to play Mephisto Waltz here, it´s too overplayed, and everybody has their own opinion about how to play the middle-part.

Two virtuosic etudes:
one by Chopin,

What would you consider the best BUT safe etude to play, e.g. if nerveous, not such a high probability of screwing up? Right now i´m playing the 1st chopin etude, which i consider has a very high probability of screwing up. Any other virtuos etude, which you consider to be safer?


one by Bartók, Debussy, Ligeti, Liszt, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, or Stravinsky.

I have most of the Transcadentals memorized, except the Feux Follets, I can memorize it if needed!
Which would you consider to be the single best etude for this occation,which both represents something technically and musically?
My personal favourite is the 10th and 12th, please give me your opinion why 10th/12 is/isnt good, and why your view is better!



A substantial work, or a collection of shorter works, of the applicant’s choice which is:
in a different style and by a composer other than those represented in the previous requirements, and
not less than six minutes.


Here i´ve thought about playing something from Yundi Li´s "Red Piano" album, In a faraway place(very melodical)+something else, or some Kapustin Etude(Jazzy)

What are your opinions on this, is it safe to play a chinese contemporary piece, or will the judges shun it just based on that they don´t neccesarily find it "serious" enough???

Thank you!!

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[visitor]

This or other ( or others as a set, heck do them all)
I think it is wasted opportunity to not present American music at an audition to American school

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[visitor]

Consider these genius preludes and fugues
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[bechsteina160]

I absolutely love this etude by Liszt, it is not overplayed either in my opinion.
As a side note, I think the interpretation of this pianist, Fomin, is brilliant. But it could just be me.

For the Chopin etude, I think it would be interesting to play Op. 10 No. 7. It is not played that often.