What are you practicing today (last post wins)

[real_piano._.potato]

Can't say I've ever seen, or would expect to see, Hanon exercise 12 along side Rachmaninoff etude-tableaux op 33 no 5 in e-flat minor!

How is that weird though? hanon is for warm up and the rachmaninoff is for competitions!

[essence]

-Rachmaninoff etude tableau in e flat minor (the op 33 one)

Non allegro – Presto

!!!

Mainly falls under the fingers, but still very difficult.

Not something you play cold.

[dizzyfingers]

I get it!

You could play the Hanon with 6 flats for an even better warm up!

[real_piano._.potato]

Rachmaninoff etude tableau in e flat minor (the op 33 one)

I am lowkey tired of this piece though

[the_franzliszt]

I'm running through some pieces for a recital coming up right now + a couple that I just want to have in my repertoire.

Libertango - Astor Piazzola
Bolero - Frederic Chopin
Etude Op. 10 No. 5 "Black Keys"- Frederic Chopin
Vexations - Erik Satie (YES I WILL REPEAT IT 840x)
Guero - Helmut Lachenmann (DONT ASK LOL)

And I'm also practicing these as an accompanist to my vocalist,

Apres un Reve - Garbiele Faure
Vergebliches Standchen - Johannes Brahms
The Nightingale and the Rose - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Edit: Not all of these are me "Practicing", a few I'm just running through a couple time to keep memorized and keep performance worthy.

[the_franzliszt]

It has been quite a while since I have posted in here, but I guess here's a repertoire update!

Nice repertoire list, Is this daily practice or split practice (splitting different pieces up for different days) ? Or is it just pieces you have performance/comp. ready?

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[psipsi8]

I haven't had much time during the past week to practise a lot but yesterday I played Grieg's Piano Sonata in E minor op.7. After listening to it about a month ago I really wanted to learn it but I found while starting to learn it that it was kind of superficial and I regretted it. However, it's growing on me, it's extremely interesting. Furthermore, because at the same time I dusted off Brahms' op.118 which I half-learned about 20 years ago, I found that the two works share many traits. But it appears that Grieg wrote his first. All very exciting. Grieg though has some other unique elements and harmonies which I can't specifically describe in any other way other than saying they're "troll" elements, also present in his other piano works e.g. Lyric Pieces.

[dizzyfingers]

I find Bach's sons music much more interesting than their father's, in all genres.
I already worked on JC Bach Sonata in G op.5 n°3 and will chose a CPE Bach sonata next week with my teacher as she likes and knows quite a few CPE Bach works. Maybe the one in A major H.439

I can understand this. JS Bach's music, where often beautiful, and always consummately crafted, and usually interesting, pianistically (keyboardly?), can be a bit impersonal, a bit abstract.
The Bach sons' music wasn't really played when I was a student, so I know next to nothing about their repertoires.  That's awesome your teacher has spent some time researching CPE Bach.

I suppose someone should make a post, one for each son, discussing their repertoire?   Most played, most difficult, best, etc.


 

[pianistavt]

I'm coming out of a phase of concentrating all my time on a few chamber music pieces and now playing a lot of different etudes, trying to decide which to place at the top of my practice list.  Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome.

Czerny op 740 no 4 in Bb (good for 5-4, 5-3 and wrist throws)
Czerny op 740 no 35 in F (repeated notes, I'll probably transpose it to F#)
Chopin op 10 no 5 black key
Chopin op 10 no 7 in C (toccata)
Chopin op 10 no 11 (rolled chords)
Moskowski op 72 no 8 in C (thirds)
Rachmaninoff op 39 no 9 (an engaging, beautiful challenge)
Scriabin op 42 no 7

[essence]

Rachmaninoff op 39 no 9 (an engaging, beautiful challenge)

You mean the last one in D major? I would describe it as rumbustious rather than engaging. I find it one of the less difficult of the set.

[thorn]

I'm reworking Albeniz Triana. I played it 13 years ago but never felt completely on top of certain sections. A masterclass by AdL popped up on my YT which inspired me to come back to it. I've been focusing on the first couple pages of the middle section at half speed and it's feeling more stable than last time.

[the_franzliszt]

Today,
I ended up starting Chopin's Etude Op.10/9 in F minor (Put about a 1 hour into it)
- Main thing is not overpedaling and making sure my right hands melodic line shaping/phrasing is good
- Also not slowing certain parts down where they don't need to be (work on hesitation)

Libertango - Put 30 minutes into light (lighter practice today)
- Work on memorization in the latter half of the piece and polishing up, up to speed

Bolero - Chopin - Put an hour into it today
- Worked on memorization and not slowing (hesitating in iffy spots)

Vexations - Erik Satie - Repeated it a bunch - tried to shape and bring out different voices at points

Apres un Reve - Garbiele Faure
Vergebliches Standchen - Johannes Brahms
The Nightingale and the Rose - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

- Polished those up to performance worthy.

[ash120]

Today's agenda:
- A Chopin etude to warm up (today - Op. 10/9; I pulled the LH apart a little.)
- Beethoven - Appassionata (Piano sonata Op. 57) - main focus for today.
-Ginastera - Danza del Guacho Matrero (Op. 2/3) - I spent a little time.
And then I sightread junk sheet music...just to keep a little bit of sightreading practice going.

[dizzyfingers]

Today's agenda:
-Ginastera - Danza del Guacho Matrero (Op. 2/3) - I spent a little time.

Have you started applying band-aids yet?

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[pianistavt]

I'm practicing Brahms and Chopin, much to my chagrin.
Nothing after 1905
No Bartok  :-(
I am learning a 2-page Prokofiev Vision Fugitive, so that's kinda redemptive.
Oh yeah - a flute/piano sonata by J. Feld - quite modern, and Martinu trio for flute, cello, piano, so I guess I am playing music after 1905!
Phew.

[lilypad]

I have a Martinu piece, "Spring in the Garden", that I hope to get to this year. Right now I'm still plugging away at Alexis Ffrench's "Last Song".  Both pretty lower level based on what I see people working on here. 

[thorn]

Oh yeah - a flute/piano sonata by J. Feld - quite modern, and Martinu trio for flute, cello, piano, so I guess I am playing music after 1905!

Also some collaborative stuff- Brahms op.38, Debussy cello sonata, and Ravel Asie.

[pianistavt]

Yeah ensemble music is so rewarding.  It was totally neglected in my pedagogy from 12 to 22.  It should be a standard component for serious piano (i.e. music) students - can't a teacher engage in duets?  Now I'm heir to all the ensemble drawbacks pianists are known to have (not going into that rn).

Why isn't the Chopin cello sonata included in the competition?
It's a beautiful high-caliber work.

[dizzyfingers]

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[verrufene_stelle]

Working on different pieces but mostly concentrating on a piano Rhapsody by Dohnányi.

[yqxpiano]

learning transcendental etude 2, will probably learn most of them eventually besides no 4, 5, 8 and 12... for now at least
taking a stab at  ballade 4