Schumann posthumous variations

[pianolin94]

So I'm putting together a graduate recital for the spring and while I think I have enough rep, it might be nice to do something romantic Era, pretty, and/or reflective. I discovered Schumann's posthumous variation no. 5 (part of the symphonic etudes I think) which I find absolutely beautiful.
 It's so short so I was wondering if it would be weird to play just the set of posthumous variations and not the whole symphonic etude set?

I don't necessarily "need" another piece but I thought this really the bill of what I was looking for. Other pieces I've found that are beautiful also tend to be showy and I already have lots of showy pieces....I'd love to do a consolation but they're so overplayed...

Here is a link to the variation:

[visitor]

you can kinda do whatever you want w an encore, have it up your sleep, don't tell anyone about them, do the first bow then quickly come back and announce them and pop them out

if not that, given you're doing some of Bob Muczinsky's work, you might look at some of his variations from desperate measures/ie the Paganini variations, and some select variations from that after the main theme, that's a super freakin cool piece too