Which program do you like better?

[david456103]

Option #1:

Beethoven...Sonata in C, Op. 53
                       I. Allegro Con Brio
Ravel...Gaspard de la Nuit
                  II. Le Gibet
                  III. Scarbo
Chopin...Ballade in F Minor, Op. 52

Option #2:

Beethoven...Sonata in C, Op. 53
                      I. Allegro Con Brio
Ravel...Gaspard de la Nuit
                 II. Le Gibet
                 III. Scarbo
Chopin...Polonaise in A-Flat Major, Op. 53

Thanks!

[pianoman1349]

Option 1, mainly as the Chopin Ballade makes more sense than the polonaise after Scarbo.  Musically, the epicness of a ballade is more fitting with the vivid poetic imagery behind Scarbo than the polonaise.  Also, from a technical standpoint, do you really want to launch into parallel fourths directly after Scarbo??

[michael_sayers]

Option #1.  

If I were you I would include the rest of the Waldstein Sonata and all of the Ravel - otherwise there will be questions about why several movements were excluded.


Mvh,
Michael

[thorn]

I agree with the above ^

I'd do Beethoven-Ravel- ligher encore type piece myself. If you want to play Chopin maybe one of his waltzes or something?