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kornv9022

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Update Competition Repertoire Comments

on: March 25, 2017, 02:39:01 AM

Here is my final ideas for my competition repertoire.
First here are the requirements for the first round:

1.One Etude chosen from the list of etudes.
2.Two sonatas by Scarlatti or Soler, or a complete work or a minimum of two contrasting movements of a work by J.S. Bach or Handel (for a suite or a partita, a minimum of three contrasting movements is required).
3.One movements of a sonata from the classical period or one work from the classical period (in one movement).
4.One work or a group of movements or one movement of your choice.

Here is my repertoire list:
1. Lyapunov etude op.11 no.8
2. Sonata in B minor L33 K87 and Sonata in G major K427
3. Beethoven Sonata no.8 mvt.1
4. Liszt Sonetta 104

Is it a good balance?

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visitor

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Reply #1 on: March 25, 2017, 02:22:27 PM

Why is this even a new thread and topic? It is what , number 5 in approx 24 hours onthe same subject?
Does your reply button evem work?

As for the puece, is more how you play vs what you play. Just pucm whatevet you like the most ad you will likely work harder on and more w pieces you enjoy.

Me personally, whe given the awesome opportunity of picking anything of my own choice, i likely would not go w Liszt, the opening is puroposely way open ended, its a chance to showcase creativity and literature awareness and knowledge.

So many better ways to go, i wod probably look at Siegmeister and realted, ie off top of my head i might slot something like this is

But honestly there are huneredz of great potential candidates i would likely look t that do not incude Liszt and co., nothing against Liszt but to use itnin that kind of freddom spot is a wasted opportunity to bring something refreshing and less commonly performed to the table.
Just sayin

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Reply #2 on: March 25, 2017, 02:55:34 PM

I'll have to preface my comments: I have never played in a competition, so you can take this with a grain of salt.

I too love the Pathetique, but this an old war horse, which every judge will have heard over and over. Some will even think 'NO, not again!'. If you do not play it the way they envision it, even if yours is defensible, you will be at a disadvantage. I would learn this for my own enjoyment, but never for a competition.

You will be 21 at the time of the competition, so therefore will be competing with some who have been playing since diapers. I would suggest excluding war horses, find repertoire you love that is not so overplayed. Everyday, I find something less heard that I think, 'omg, I love that, too'

Hint: Look at Visitors many post for the little known but wonderful!

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kornv9022

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Reply #3 on: March 25, 2017, 03:35:05 PM

I thought the other post had too many comments already so I made another post. Sorry. Well I have played technically since I was 5. Just maybe I did not progress as fast as others. Hmm yes I will change the last piece to Glinka's The Lark. I have the sheet music and tried it before. I do like it a lot
But, I am not sure how it counts for the last requirement. It is 5:30 minutes long perhaps. But the list is 7. Perhaps that would be something new. There is only one recording of it that I found by Kissin. It is really not known by many pianists. The Beethoven I will keep though. I just love the piece too much. The weird thing is that the competition holders did not say the levels of the pieces required
Someone could play a very simple piece as long as it fits the type of piece or someone could play a warhorse or a really technically challenging piece. How can the two be adjudicated in the same class?

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dogperson

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Reply #4 on: March 25, 2017, 05:22:34 PM

Quote from: kornv9022 on March 25, 2017, 03:35:05 PM

I thought the other post had too many comments already so I made another post. Sorry. Well I have played technically since I was 5. Just maybe I did not progress as fast as others. Hmm yes I will change the last piece to Glinka's The Lark. I have the sheet music and tried it before. I do like it a lot
But, I am not sure how it counts for the last requirement. It is 5:30 minutes long perhaps. But the list is 7. Perhaps that would be something new. There is only one recording of it that I found by Kissin. It is really not known by many pianists. The Beethoven I will keep though. I just love the piece too much. The weird thing is that the competition holders did not say the levels of the pieces required
Someone could play a very simple piece as long as it fits the type of piece or someone could play a warhorse or a really technically challenging piece. How can the two be adjudicated in the same class?

Maybe if you stop and ask yourself the question "how will this be adjudicated", and make out a list of the criteria, you can come up with repertoire that will be useful. I think this would be a useful exercise for you to do yourself rather than asking others to do it for you. If you need a start you should go online and listen to a few of the competitions that are on YouTube and ask yourself how would you vote ... and why.

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