[Question]What are you working these days ?

[blackpianistjp]

Hello,

Id be curious to know what are you working these days ?
And are you having difficulty to pull off one segment of a piece ?

Thanks !

[visitor]

i started work on a japanese (CAP - "chuo art publishing") out of print (from probably from the early/mid 90's) 5 book/volume set of piano and transcriptions of std works written as jazz pieces so re harmonization, and written out imrpovs on those themes, they are cool especially the first few Chopin 'jazz preludes' i started with , however I am finding that when the pieces are written in a 'swing' that although i usually do not have trouble with this, certain written out rhythms trip me up, especially 4 r note quadruplets when the piece is in 3/4 jazz [swing] waltz.

also understanding when to swing and when to play it straight is problematic. I believe the Japanese text/practice and performance advice prior to each piece may explain it some but I cannot read Japanese so I'm left to try and feeling it out. I've been around the Jazz idiom my entire 'piano life' but not a lot of formal training, so some of the finer points I struggle with. Making decent progress though and hope to record some soon , i kinda have too or it till take forever to get through all 5 books.   

[iansinclair]

Schubert Bflat major sonata -- D 960.  Can't think why I didn't learn it when my fingers were... forty or fifty years younger and still agile.  Better late than never?

[stevensk]

Just finished Gluck (Sgambati) Melodie from "Orfeo e Euridice"

[piulento]

Working on some pieces for a university audition about a year from now:
- Bach P&F in B flat minor from WTC I
- Mozart Sonata no. 11 in A major
- Chopin Nocturne op. 27 no. 2 in D flat major
- Debussy Prelude from "Pour le Piano" Suite
- Jann Freidlin Serenade in E minor
(Would love your opinion on the repertoire choices...)
- Aside from the audition, working on the first movement of Schubert's Sonata no. 16 in A minor.

I'm really having some trouble in the Nocturne with the 'Con Forza' section towards the end... (Listen at 3:40) I can play it at proper speed, but it's hard playing it as naturally and as smoothly as I want it to be.

So what about you blackpianistjp?

[alkan2010]

Rachmaninov's Polichinelle -urgh! some couple of measures are nasty-
Bach B Flat P/F from Book 1
Abreu's Tico Tico No Fuba
Moscheles' Harmonious Blacksmith Variations
and Hunten'sCinderella Rondo (just for fun  )

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Beethoven Op 106, Stravinskys Perrouchka, rach concertos 1-4, Gaspard de la Nuit, Chopins revolutionary étude in octaves under one minute and all the Ligeti etudes.  Tbh it's not that bad.  

I've sightread through everything at full speed except for maybe some of the Ligeti etudes were at like 85%.  I gotta work on my sight reading.

Oh and I'm also working on two couperin pieces for a harpsichord recital I have on Friday and stuff to play for my sisters wedding.

[visitor]

Beethoven Op 106, Stravinskys Perrouchka, rach concertos 1-4, Gaspard de la Nuit, Chopins revolutionary étude in octaves under one minute and all the Ligeti etudes.  Tbh it's not that bad.  

I've sightread through everything at full speed except for maybe some of the Ligeti etudes were at like 85%.  I gotta work on my sight reading.

Oh and I'm also working on two couperin pieces for a harpsichord recital I have on Friday and stuff to play for my sisters wedding.

Not bad.

[annm377]

I'm currently working on:

Beethoven Sonata Op. 10 No. 3
Bach Prelude and Fugue in G Sharp Minor (Book 1)
Un Sospiro
Chopin Fantasy in F minor Op. 49
Bartok Two Romanian Dances Op. 8a, 1st movement