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Topic: Admission Tests Repertoire  (Read 1392 times)

Offline jpgm9919

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Admission Tests Repertoire
on: July 11, 2015, 10:31:30 AM
Hi, I am preparing my Univertsity admission test in music(piano) in Portugal that is more less than a year than now, and I aldredy know what I will play there(Prelude and Fugue in B minor(WTC I) - Bach, Les Adieux Sonata - Beethoven, Harmonies du Soir etude - Liszt and a movement from Suite pour le Piano - Debussy, probably the Prelude).
First,  what do you think of that?
Second, i need to choose one more piece( my teacher wants me to do it), and I noticed I need something like Scherzo nº2 - Chopin, but not the Scherzo itself... I it is just so overplayed, and I don´t even know if I could learn it...and my only colleague that will also do the tests will likely play it there.

Offline j_menz

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Re: Admission Tests Repertoire
Reply #1 on: July 11, 2015, 12:42:15 PM
Second, i need to choose one more piece

Yep

I need something like Scherzo nº2 - Chopin,

No, what you need is something written after Queen Victoria died.
"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left" -- Oscar Levant

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Re: Admission Tests Repertoire
Reply #2 on: July 11, 2015, 12:54:30 PM
Yep

No, what you need is something written after Queen Victoria died.

She died in the same year the Suite pour le Piano was written, but I know what you meant...

Offline blackonwhite

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Re: Admission Tests Repertoire
Reply #3 on: July 11, 2015, 12:56:23 PM
The first scherzo isn't a bad idea.
The piano a string instrument controlled by means of percussion.
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