"brilliant" concertante works for solo

[mjames]

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.

[visitor]

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

rest of score here
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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[mjames]

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.

[chopinlover01]

[visitor]

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

[mjames]

Nice, keep it coming guys!

[goldentone]

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?

  

[visitor]

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...

[visitor]

Nice, keep it coming guys!

try this on

[visitor]

[medtnaculus]

Macdowell's 1st sonata?

[kawai_cs]

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

[chopinlover01]

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:

[outin]

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

Me?

[mjames]

Me?

liar

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

[mjames]

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

[outin]

liar

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

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

[visitor]

[alkan2010]

Maybe you like Biedermeier 
Some Hummel

or a delicious Czerny

[kawai_cs]

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).

[outin]

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 

[mjames]

i was paraphrasing

but okay

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.
....

[mjames]

speaking of early chopin...

How could I miss the op. 22???

My goals:

[outin]

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.
....

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...

[visitor]

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

[mjames]

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.

[outin]

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

[visitor]

...

 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

[alistaircrane4]

 A favorite of mine,

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

 German but pretty "Brillante"

[visitor]

CMW, an earlier example

[mjames]

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.

[mjames]

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.

[c_minor]

I don't know if this counts, but try Gottschalk's Tarantella. There's a piano transcription by the composer himself.

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Herz and Pixis fantasies:

[mjames]

Really enjoyed the theme and variations! Love how much love you give to obscure composers.

Studied at the Warsaw conservatory under Josef Elsner, making him Chopin's junior!

Not bad for a 15 year old!

[visitor]

dear ehm jaymz

much luv
he that visits
 

[mjames]

Brilliant waltz, enjoyed it.


Kinda weird how there's no Liadov yet!

(obvious inspiration is obvious...)