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Topic: Your Fantasy Short-Pieces Recital  (Read 2419 times)

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Your Fantasy Short-Pieces Recital
on: January 16, 2018, 11:15:35 AM
This is my favorite way to waste time and stroke my ego.  Ruminating on awesome recital repertoires that I will never actually play xD

Let's say 60-70'

No pieces over ~10 minutes
No more than three pieces over ~5 minutes


What is your coolest ever recital of short pieces, to either play (hey, it's fantasy, so let's pretend you've got chops like Argerich), or maybe to hear from some particular pianist?  Can either be a pure recital, or maybe a competition round where you need to show off a lot of different stuff.  I think the latter is more fun to think about, but go with whatever you're feeling!

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Re: Your Fantasy Short-Pieces Recital
Reply #1 on: January 16, 2018, 12:57:04 PM
OK, I'll bite.

To begin with: Liszt Isolde's Liebestod, to give the false impression that it's going to be a serious recital.

Thereafter, in no particular order:
Tausig Das Geisterschiff
Hamelin etude on La Campanella
Alkan Le Preux, Le Festin d'Esope
Thalberg Dal tuo stellato soglio
Liapunov Ronde des sylphes and Ronde des fantomes
My own fantasy on Robert le Diable (I don't see the Liszt one making it in below ten mins)
Brassin Magic Fire Music
Dreyschock revolutionary etude, lh in octaves.
Cziffra Bumblebee, Tritsch-Tratsch

The coda only of Cziffra's William Tell for an encore.
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Re: Your Fantasy Short-Pieces Recital
Reply #2 on: January 17, 2018, 10:32:04 PM
OK, I'll bite.

To begin with: Liszt Isolde's Liebestod, to give the false impression that it's going to be a serious recital.

Thereafter, in no particular order:
Tausig Das Geisterschiff
Hamelin etude on La Campanella
Alkan Le Preux, Le Festin d'Esope
Thalberg Dal tuo stellato soglio
Liapunov Ronde des sylphes and Ronde des fantomes
My own fantasy on Robert le Diable (I don't see the Liszt one making it in below ten mins)
Brassin Magic Fire Music
Dreyschock revolutionary etude, lh in octaves.
Cziffra Bumblebee, Tritsch-Tratsch

The coda only of Cziffra's William Tell for an encore.


Do you have something against recitals of short pieces, or what?  xD

How about Rach 33 + Debussy Etudes?

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Re: Your Fantasy Short-Pieces Recital
Reply #3 on: January 17, 2018, 10:51:00 PM
The second recital can be the entire Alkan Esquisses, then.. ;)
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Re: Your Fantasy Short-Pieces Recital
Reply #4 on: February 04, 2018, 11:46:01 PM
Since it's Debussy's year, how about using the preludes as intended?  Also, I refuse to believe this is a bad thread 8)


Claude Debussy      Prelude "Les collines d'Anacapri," Book I No. 5
Glinka/Balakirev   The Lark
Claude Debussy      Prelude "Ondine," Book II No. 8
Domenico Scarlatti   Sonata in D Minor, K. 141
         Sonata in C Minor, K. 40
         Sonata in A Major, K. 24
Claude Debussy      Prelude "La puerta del vino," Book II No. 3
Franz Schubert      Impromptu in F Minor, D. 935 No. 4
Claude Debussy      Prelude "Feuilles mortes," Book II No. 2
Johann Sebastian Bach   Prelude and Fugue in G Minor, Book I No. 16
Claude Debussy      Prelude "La danse de Puck," Book I No. 11
Camille Saint-Saens   Etude "En forme de valse," Op. 52 No. 6
Claude Debussy      Prelude "General Lavine - excentrique," Book II No. 6
Salvatore Sciarrino   Anamorfosi
Claude Debussy      Prelude "Ce qua vu le vent d'ouest," Book I No. 7
Sergei Rachmaninov   Etude in E-Flat Minor "Appassionata," Op. 39 No. 5
         Etude in A Minor "Little Red Ridinghood," Op. 39 No. 6
Claude Debussy      Prelude "Feux d'artifice," Book II No. 12
Alexander Scriabin   Poeme "Vers la flamme," Op. 72




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