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Hi, I'm new here (:

Next year is my senior year and I have to give a recital, so I want to put together a really good program that's also meaningful to me. Sadly, I have this weird hesitation to attempt certain pieces that I would love to play because I feel they may be too hard or my hands are too small (farthest I can reach is an octave).

I'm thinking about playing Liszt 'Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este' or Ravel Gaspard de la nuit, but I'm definitely skeptical of my ability to play the latter. I've played all of Ravel's other piano works which is why I want to "finish" in a sense by playing Gaspard de la nuit, because I love Ravel. Miroirs was really hard and honestly quite a painful reach for me at times. I've played a few pretty hard pieces with difficult reaches/stretches (i.e. Prokofiev Toccata, Schumann Carnaval, Jeux D'eau) but I feel like I might be setting myself up for failure if I try to learn these pieces if my technique isn't developed enough.

Any thoughts would be appreciated!