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mjames

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"brilliant" concertante works for solo

on: April 20, 2016, 04:07:43 PM

I really love this style of piano, the "brilliant" style (no, chopin didnt invent it! so stop calling it "chopinesque"!!!). Here are a few examples:

Basically, I want a list of brillante concertante (what you would expect in a concerto, except for solo piano) works like this! From major or unknown composers, I don't mind..

I think it's my favorite style of piano writing. It's so fun.

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Reply #1 on: April 20, 2016, 04:15:08 PM

i have quite the big subcollectionof these, a lot of the best stuff is not recorded or was at one point and now lost. i think i even have a rare early part of 20th century book dedicated to just this type of works by a bunch of composers even i had never heard of, so it grew on me and i pick these things up everytime i come across one.

here's a fav of mine

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https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/18572

The Star Spangled Banner. Paraphrase Brillante pour le Piano.
-Herman Wollenhaupt

I have tinkered w the idea to work this up someday w hopes of recording it around a 4th of July of something

will post more later
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Reply #2 on: April 20, 2016, 04:16:52 PM

HAHAH! ZOMG!

US anthem in brillante style? That is SOOOO cool. ahahah

I've actually thought of doing that. When I get good enough, I'd love to do anime covers in brillante form.

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Reply #3 on: April 20, 2016, 05:05:07 PM

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Reply #4 on: April 20, 2016, 06:04:37 PM

William Vincent Wallace (1812-1865)
Fantaisie brillante de Salon pour piano sur des Melodies Ecossaises Roy's Wife - We're a' Noddin'

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Reply #5 on: April 20, 2016, 06:16:32 PM

Nice, keep it coming guys!

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Reply #6 on: April 20, 2016, 06:49:47 PM

Quote from: visitor on April 20, 2016, 06:04:37 PM

William Vincent Wallace (1812-1865)
Fantaisie brillante de Salon pour piano sur des Melodies Ecossaises Roy's Wife - We're a' Noddin'

Where do you find these gems, Visitor?

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Reply #7 on: April 20, 2016, 06:56:03 PM

Quote from: goldentone on April 20, 2016, 06:49:47 PM

Where do you find these gems, Visitor?

here and there in my travels and used book store, old library stacks escapades. but shhh, it's a secret

*i'm a bigger fan of the americana and folk music themes based works but this isn't about me, it's for mjames, so here

**need to find where i stashed a link to a cool score of a brillante paraphrase on a stephen foster work, it's in my 100 year or so old ditson anthology of these brillante salon works, but i think there's a google books project link somewhere...

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Reply #8 on: April 20, 2016, 07:26:00 PM

Quote from: mjames on April 20, 2016, 06:16:32 PM

Nice, keep it coming guys!

try this on

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Reply #9 on: April 20, 2016, 07:29:20 PM

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Reply #10 on: April 20, 2016, 09:08:31 PM

Macdowell's 1st sonata?

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Reply #11 on: April 20, 2016, 10:16:14 PM

Well, who doesn't like virtuosic, bright, elegant and sophisticated sounding pieces?:-)
If only my fingers wanted to join this party in

Though not so sure about the style of the first one, bc it uses a lot of lower register which is not typical of "brilliant" style

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Reply #12 on: April 21, 2016, 12:16:35 AM

Pretty sure I shared this with you already, but this is some good sh*t. There's also a lot of good in Rach's Op. 3:

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Reply #13 on: April 21, 2016, 03:33:49 AM

Quote from: kawai_cs on April 20, 2016, 10:16:14 PM

Well, who doesn't like virtuosic, bright, elegant and sophisticated sounding pieces?:-)

Me?

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Reply #14 on: April 21, 2016, 04:07:46 AM

Quote from: outin on April 21, 2016, 03:33:49 AM

Me?

liar

"op. 46 is one of my fav chopin works"

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Reply #15 on: April 21, 2016, 04:08:32 AM

Quote from: kawai_cs on April 20, 2016, 10:16:14 PM

Well, who doesn't like virtuosic, bright, elegant and sophisticated sounding pieces?:-)
If only my fingers wanted to join this party in :

Though not so sure about the style of the first one, bc it uses a lot of lower register which is not typical of "brilliant" style

alkan is pure beast. hooly craaap

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Reply #16 on: April 21, 2016, 05:43:30 AM

Quote from: mjames on April 21, 2016, 04:07:46 AM

liar

"op. 46 is one of my fav chopin works"

i was going to add that there's this exception but was lazy

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Reply #17 on: April 21, 2016, 03:45:05 PM

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Reply #18 on: April 21, 2016, 03:47:42 PM

Maybe you like Biedermeier

Some Hummel

or a delicious Czerny

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Reply #19 on: April 26, 2016, 07:53:25 AM

Quote from: mjames on April 21, 2016, 04:07:46 AM

liar

"op. 46 is one of my fav chopin works"

hahahaha, he got you outin

Beware, everything gets cross-checked

I really like that TE no 2 by Liszt. Maybe somebody here posts it one day.
I wonder how it sounds when played by a "normal" person (not some famous virtuoso).

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Reply #20 on: April 26, 2016, 09:23:52 AM

Quote from: kawai_cs on April 26, 2016, 07:53:25 AM

hahahaha, he got you outin
Beware, everything gets cross-checked

Can't be an authentic citation though, since I would never use the "word" fav

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Reply #21 on: April 26, 2016, 06:12:33 PM

i was paraphrasing

but okay

Quote from: outin on August 08, 2015, 03:42:07 AM

I want to play music from my favorite composers, but also be somewhat realistic. I do love pieces like Chopin 3rd sonata or his Allegro de Concert,"

there's some strong shades of the early "brilliant" chopin in the 3rd sonata as well, especially in the first and second movements.
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Reply #22 on: April 26, 2016, 06:18:20 PM

speaking of early chopin...

How could I miss the op. 22???

My goals:

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Reply #23 on: April 27, 2016, 03:46:16 AM

Quote from: mjames on April 26, 2016, 06:12:33 PM

i was paraphrasing

but okay

there's some strong shades of the early "brilliant" chopin in the 3rd sonata as well, especially in the first and second movements.
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Well, it may be a matter of perception or defition... If you are talking about brilliant piano writing in the Hummel style, then sure, that is always welcome

But if you are talking about a specific style of music, then no thanks...I especially cannot stand pieces like his op. 2...

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Reply #24 on: April 27, 2016, 09:48:24 AM

Took me longer than i tought to fund a good recording of this that liked

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Reply #25 on: April 27, 2016, 01:32:19 PM

Quote from: outin on April 27, 2016, 03:46:16 AM

Well, it may be a matter of perception or defition... If you are talking about brilliant piano writing in the Hummel style, then sure, that is always welcome

But if you are talking about a specific style of music, then no thanks...I especially cannot stand pieces like his op. 2...

lol ever heard of blasphemy
in my religion, hell consists of Hanon and Bach (but if youre a bachlover, bach is banned for u)..................

henselt is so weird. his early works are awesome but his later ones,.....are sooooooooo bland.

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Reply #26 on: April 27, 2016, 03:27:16 PM

Quote from: mjames on April 27, 2016, 01:32:19 PM

lol ever heard of blasphemy
in my religion, hell consists of Hanon and Bach (but if youre a bachlover, bach is banned for u)..................

I'm no Bachist...my hell will be Mozart all day long...and evenigs with the Tchaikovsky concertos

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Reply #27 on: April 27, 2016, 07:40:25 PM

Quote from: mjames on April 27, 2016, 01:32:19 PM

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his early works are awesome but his later ones,.....are sooooooooo bland.

I think henselt is groovy overall.
this is a really fantastic recording of both opus w the 24 etudes some other great pieces, the nocturnes and that awesome andante and allegro concertante

here is the playlist

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Reply #28 on: May 25, 2016, 06:59:29 AM

A favorite of mine,

A lot of brilliant sections in here due to contributions from the other composers

German but pretty "Brillante"

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Reply #29 on: August 02, 2016, 06:24:43 PM

CMW, an earlier example

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Reply #30 on: July 21, 2017, 05:32:02 AM

The best of his 4 rondos:

Better than his more mature op.16, and it has nothing to do with me only being able to play op. 5

Immature and his later stuff is way better, but it's still better than what most of his senior contemporaries (by decades) were doing with the genre at that time.

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Reply #31 on: July 21, 2017, 05:39:25 AM

At the time I made this thread i wasn't a big fan of Liszt but after playing a few of his stuff it's quite clear that he was an absolute master of this genre.