Pieces for a competition?

[lalo57]

So I have my first competition next October... (the national young interpreter's competition... Lousily translated from Spanish (I'm from Colombia)). And I got no idea about what I should play... The recital must be 60 min long, and there must be contrasting pieces... Like in style and period and well. Anyway I know I'll play Papillons (Schumann) and Dumka (Tchaikovsky) and maybe a French Suite by Bach since English suites are too difficult (that should give you a heads up about my level)... I have to play a contemporary piece (the competition suggests Prokofiev or Ginastera because of their birth dates) is there any piece by Prokofiev that is like impressive without being impossible?! My teacher suggested Rqchmaninoff's 4 prelude or 3 moment musical...  What romantic piece (besides papillons) would you recommend? ( it is also Busoni's 150 years or so) Also I thought of a sonata.. Maybe a Schubert's or Beethoven's sonata (I've only played Mozart's and Scarlatti's:((( )

[cabbynum]

Shonberg op.11 complete

Chopin op.55 no.1

Schubert op.90 no.1 and no.4

Do a Mozart sonata if you can play it well that is extremely impressive! Just not the blasted A minor sonata...

Beethoven sonatas. I suggest op.31 no.2
Op.27 no.1
Op. 90
Op.78
Op.2 no.2

Schubert any sonata except for the last 3.

More romantic
Check out chopin impromptus not the fantasie impromptu.

Maybe a liszt religious harmony or easier years of pilgrimage piece

[visitor]

Dumka is beefy and i wonder if having a 2nd romantic work is the right way to go. Maybe representing each period ie baroque, classical, romantic, (insert maybe post romantic 'romanticism'?), early 20th centrury, mid 20th century, contemporary.

if you pick and choose to fill each or  most of those categories, I wonder if you would need to even have two representatives from same style at all?

this one is hard to classify, more along post romantic romantic?

or perhaps some Seixas

Bomtempo pehaps?

there's tons out there. at the end of the day however, play what you like and are passionate about. connect w/ the music, and the audience, and convey your intent to them. hard to beat that. good luck. let us know what you ultimately decide or how well you place/when you win.

[cabbynum]

For baroque
try these

This is an amazing piece of music.

The Hen haha

Cyclops our own Awesom_0 has a pretty amazing recording of this piece on here somewhere.

For Classical

Beethoven G minor Fantasy

Schubert E minor Sonata

Schubert A minor

of course any Mozart or Haydn or Beethoven sonata work but I thought i would post these that you may over look.

Romantic

Chopin Barcarolle

Chopin Fantasie

Any Ballade and any Scherzi

Bortkiewicz

Stravinksy

Stockhausen

[lalo57]

Thanks for replying, you gave me some awesome music there. I loved Chopin's op 55 no 1 and maybe if played fast at theme it could be somehow impressive. I had never heard Bomtempo in my entire life... What an amazing composer.. And Taktakishvili wow... That was some seriously beautiful music. The Beethoven Fantasia was so awesome too!! I bet it was an inspiration for Chopin's 1st ballade. Thanks for all, guys.

[vixxa]

Hi,
 Would you like to do Brahms' Intermezzo op 118 No 2?

[cabbynum]

Thanks for replying, you gave me some awesome music there. I loved Chopin's op 55 no 1 and maybe if played fast at theme it could be somehow impressive. I had never heard Bomtempo in my entire life... What an amazing composer.. And Taktakishvili wow... That was some seriously beautiful music. The Beethoven Fantasia was so awesome too!! I bet it was an inspiration for Chopin's 1st ballade. Thanks for all, guys.

Do not ever go for technically impressive. Play the music the way the music should be played. Do not just play it fast to be impressive. That is the biggest mistake you can make.

[danielche]

some chopin etudes?

[pencilart3]

some chopin etudes?

What on earth? Chopin etudes when he's shying away from English Suites?  Not a good idea. You could possibly start with 10/6, but "Some Chopin Etudes" won't quite cut it.