Help me with my audition repertoire

[blue d. costy]

So, I almost finished high school and I'm thinking to enter a conservatory.

The requirements are:
- 3 etudes (like Cramer, Czerny, Clementi, Debussy, Liszt, Rach etc)
- 1 Bach's Prelude and Fugue
- First movement of a sonata (like Haydn, Mozart, Beeth, schubert etc)
- 1 or more significant compositions (like shubert, Schumann, chopin, rach, Prokofieff, Brahms, liszt, scriabin etc) (6/15 min)

My repertoire would be:
-Chopin etude op. 25 n. 9 (butterfly)
-Rachmaninoff etude-tableaux op. 39 n. 2
-Debussy Etude n. 11 (pour les arpeges composes)
-Bach P&F n. 3 BWV 848 in C#major
-Mozart Sonata n. 17 K570 (First movement)
-(still have to completely decide) maybe Tchaikovsky Dumka op. 59 (would it be good enough? )

Please, help me deciding the pieces (possibly not overplayed ones) or give some advices about these, any other advice really would be appreciated too.
Thanks!

[achoo42]

Here is a website I made that can help you with this.


https://sites.google.com/view/repertoireguide/home

[ivorycherry]

I’m not really an expert or someone certified to give opinions on people’s repertoire, but here are my two cents:

I myself think that opus 25 no 9 is way too overplayed and a better option IMO would be op 10 no 4, op 25 no 1(might be too easy but is a very beautiful piece), and op 25 no 12.

For the significant composition I think the Tchaikovsky Dumka is a great pick but other pieces I would recommend just in case you you need another option would be Mephisto Waltz or Un Sospiro by Liszt, Beethoven Appasionata Sonata 3rd movement, Chopin Fantasie in F minor or the second Scherzo(might be a little overplayed idk I always loved it and have kept it in my repertoire).

Again, this is just my opinion so don’t judge me if I sound stupid.

Alex

[ivorycherry]

I think your other picks are perfect

[fftransform]

The Butterfly is considered one of the 'easy' Chopin Etudes and isn't really used for auditions.  The 39-2 is also not a technical piece.  Use the Debussy or try the Rach 33-9, it's quick to learn and doesn't sound like garbage just from a couple wrong notes.  The 39-5 or 39-9 are the same, if all those chunky chords don't bother you too much.  IMO those two are harder than the 33-9, and the 33-9 is very en vogue rn.