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Offline david456103

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Which program do you like better?
on: June 13, 2015, 05:00:43 PM
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!
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Offline pianoman1349

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Re: Which program do you like better?
Reply #1 on: June 13, 2015, 05:16:57 PM
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??
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Offline michael_sayers

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Re: Which program do you like better?
Reply #2 on: June 13, 2015, 07:31:57 PM
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
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Offline thorn

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Re: Which program do you like better?
Reply #3 on: June 14, 2015, 11:17:57 AM
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?
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