def go with what your teacher recommends and cross reference with the requirements the school you are applying to allows. if you tour/visit the schools, ask some of the piano students what they auditioned with , it will give you an idea of what has actually succeeded.more important how you play than what so long as it meets the school's guidelines.that said i have a few ideas.regarding 'modern' i chuckly but understand what the antiquated thinking of this is after, though I have trouble even stretching the chronological truth to consider Scriabin and Prokofiev modern.I would strongly consider underrated Barvinsky, the 5 preludes are super great and seldom performed, here's a few recordings of 3 of themthis set of 2 , the fist is longer,lyrical like a hymn, so pretty..., slower/contemplative, the 2nd a fast moving storm.for classical sonata you might look to CPE Bach wrote wonderful ie. just wonderful reallynot terribly long eitherI. VivaceII. Adagio (5:35)III. Allegro assai (8:50)or Hummel
Agreed you should go with your teacherHOWEVER...The first ballade is WAY overplayed and probably like half of the audition population will play it.For "modern music" that can be misleading. Cause Scriabin is like 100 years ago and Prokofiev is like 60 so how is that modern? IMO I would email the school and ask them what do they exactly mean by 'modern'
i recommend the no. 1 ballade just for the novelty of pissing some users here.
Can you explain what you mean by that? I don't exactly get it
I think that means that some users here generally tend to look for obscure piano literature for the sake of it, rather than deepening their approach to the more renowned pieces, thus labeling them as overplayed and not worth listening to for the 100th time. (hence why some Alkan tonic-dominant-tonic piece here in audition room gets way more views than a great recording of 1st ballade might get) but i don't mean it in a bad way.
And for modern music: I think it's everything that's no longer considered romantic . Some universities say that pieces composed after 1900 would be considered as modern.
Ad technique: I don't do alot of excercises anymore, but I like recording myself on my phone and then watch it later and check if I am doing more movements than neccessary etc., you might want to try this tooWhich schools in germany are you attending to ? A couple of my friends have studied at the Hochschule in Leipzig and they said the teachers were great.Ich wünsche dir viel Glück und Erfolg tho
Nah it's an inside joke.I personally don't like Chopin as much as other people and I don't actually like the first Ballade at all which is why Mjames thought it was funny. But I didn't see it until now As far as deepening an approach to more renowned pieces, that piece has literally been played by everyone in every way possible so it's not like you can be innovative with it anymore lol. And that's not just cause I don't like it. Like for example if you showed up to an audition with the Mozart A minor sonata it would be the same deal with it being overplayed. Wait I actually don't like that one either so that's not a good example. But anyways you know what I mean.
That's still misleading cause people still wrote romantic music well into the 20th century. Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, and Medtner for example.I've been facing the same problem cause I'm also auditioning for my DMA next Winter. I decided to play it safe and do a piece by James Lee III. He's a composer still alive today and a lot of his works were premiered after like 2010 so it's like MODERN modern.But seriously these schools need to update their websites