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What Concerto should I play?

Saint-Saens #2
1 (10%)
Rachmaninoff #2
3 (30%)
Grieg- Concerto
1 (10%)
Liszt- #1
4 (40%)
Mendelssohn- #1
1 (10%)

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Offline rubinsteinmad

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Which Concerto should I play?
on: July 05, 2015, 02:04:57 AM
I'm playing a concerto for a competition, and was wondering what concerto to play? Thanks!

Offline j_menz

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Re: Which Concerto should I play?
Reply #1 on: July 05, 2015, 03:14:24 AM
The Rubinstein 4th.



Or is your madness for Arthur rather than Anton?
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Re: Which Concerto should I play?
Reply #2 on: July 05, 2015, 08:44:01 AM
One of Dussek's concerti.

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Re: Which Concerto should I play?
Reply #3 on: July 06, 2015, 04:13:17 AM
The Rubinstein 4th.



Or is your madness for Arthur rather than Anton?

Arthur. But I kind of like Rubinstein's Melodie in F and his Variations on Yankee Doodle. ::)

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Re: Which Concerto should I play?
Reply #4 on: July 06, 2015, 10:02:31 AM
Are you given a list and you can only play from those? (If so, oh dear - how positively dreadful)

If you have free reign and you can hanike any if those listed
I would consider
Things like

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Re: Which Concerto should I play?
Reply #5 on: July 06, 2015, 10:06:49 AM
Or so.something like this?





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Re: Which Concerto should I play?
Reply #6 on: July 06, 2015, 11:12:32 PM
Are you given a list and you can only play from those? (If so, oh dear - how positively dreadful)

If you have free reign and you can hanike any if those listed
I would consider
Things like


That technique........................................................................................
I wonder if you can be genetically modified yet to have a 2 octave handspan :-[

But that Catoire Concerto is so PRETTY! It is just too unfortunate that if I played that, the judges would be all squishy squishy at how I did not obey the rules.

Yes, one of the competitions gives you a list. And I know I'm either going to do the Mendelssohn Concerto or the Grieg Concerto there. Again, I have to clarify: I've never played those. The competitions are in 1-4 years. ::)

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Re: Which Concerto should I play?
Reply #7 on: July 06, 2015, 11:23:21 PM
If I were Hamelin or someone who does a lot of underrated music (Ciccolini, maybe?), and if I had the technique to do them well ::), I'd do these concertos. But too bad they're "unorthodox" to play in competitions :'(

Szpilman- Concertino
Liapunov- Both?
Catoire- Op. 21 ;D
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