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Hi, everyone - After a decade since my last exam, and purely for the challenge at 40 years old, I've been thinking of taking the London Trinity Licentiate exam. From what I'm reading, people try to present a varied programme of composers and, often, eras; but I'm also minded of playing what I want to play to convey what the music means to me. Can I, then, stick to one, or two, composers or would that be too narrow? I'm particularly keen on counterpoint. I'd like to play Bach and Shostokovich, or just Bach alone.

Proposed 1:

Bach/D'Albert, Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV 534
Bach/D'Albert, Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582
Shostakovich, Aphorisms, op 13: 10: Lullaby
Shostakovich, Prelude and Fugue in D minor, op 87: 24

Proposed 2: As before, but replacing Shostakovich with:
Bach, Toccata in D minor, BWV 913
Bach, Contrapunctus XII, BWV 1080.

Could I get away with this, or would an examiner be crying out for a Chopin nocturne or Rachmaninov etude-tableux, etc?

Many thanks