What repertoire did you study this year?

[lelle]

As the year moves towards its end I thought it could be interesting to look back at what we all have played during the year. It would also be interesting to see whether or not we finished it, just read it a vista and how much we practiced it insofar we can remember.

I keep notes and spreadsheets of the repertoire I work on, but it lacks any detail on how much time I spent on the pieces.

Here's mine:
Chopin: Etudes op 25. 1-12 (memorized the ones haven't played before but did not push all of them to full tempo since that is beyond me on some of them)
Chopin: Preludes Op. 28 1-24 (memorized, got most of them to a decent tempo considering I'm no virtuoso, played it informally on a public piano once)
Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit (worked mostly on ondine and le gibet, ondine not full tempo)
Schumann: Kreisleriana (started working on it at the end of the year)
Bach/Liszt Prelude & Fugue in a minor BWV 543 (old piece that I polished up for performance again)
Chopin: scherzo 2 (learned this last year but dusted it off a bit this year)
Chopin: Polonaise-Fantasie Op. 61 (learned this last year but dusted it off a bit this year)

Plus a bunch of reading various repertoire with no goal of learning it.

Most of my practice was probably spent on the Preludes, Etudes and the Bach/Liszt.

[brogers70]

That's an impressive bunch of work, Lelle.

Mine was much modester. I did a house concert in the fall with 4 Scarlatti sonatas (K27,87,380,531), the Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue in C major, the Grieg Air from the Holberg Suite, and Schubert's Opus 90 4 Impromptus. Now I'm working on the next program, the Bach Partita in Bb, Brahms Opus 116 #5, 118 #6, and 119 #1, all strange and modern, and the last one Op 119 #1, has a whole lifetime's worth of emotion in under 4 minutes. Those and then the first book of Janacek, On an Overgrown Path. Learned all the notes on all of them, but have lots of refining to do before I could play them in front of anybody other than family.

[sonata_5]

Wow!
I’ve been taking my RCM’s so
Level 8:
Scarlatti sonata in f minor k 185
Beethoven sonata op 49 no 1 mov. 1
Gliere prelude Eb major op 31 no 1
Springer Tango Callejero
Burgmuller the storm
Karganov op 21 no 3
Competition:
Debussy reverie
Mozart sonata k 545 mov. 1
Summer:
Bach WTC book 1 prelude and fugue c minor
Beethoven op 2 no 1 movement 1
Chopin black keys(still working on it)
Rcm level 9:
Scarlatti k 132
Haydn sonata f major hob 23
Brahms intermezzo op 116 no 2
Joplin easy winners

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Like 6 different recital programs and I won’t remember a single note of any of them going into 2025

 

[dizzyfingers]

Here's mine:
Chopin: Etudes op 25. 1-12 (memorized the ones haven't played before but did not push all of them to full tempo since that is beyond me on some of them)
Chopin: Preludes Op. 28 1-24 (memorized, got most of them to a decent tempo considering I'm no virtuoso, played it informally on a public piano once)
Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit (worked mostly on ondine and le gibet, ondine not full tempo)
Schumann: Kreisleriana (started working on it at the end of the year)
Bach/Liszt Prelude & Fugue in a minor BWV 543 (old piece that I polished up for performance again)
Chopin: scherzo 2 (learned this last year but dusted it off a bit this year)
Chopin: Polonaise-Fantasie Op. 61 (learned this last year but dusted it off a bit this year)

Impressive indeed! 
I guess you love Chopin!

[dizzyfingers]

Now I'm working on the next program, the Bach Partita in Bb, Brahms Opus 116 #5, 118 #6, and 119 #1, all strange and modern

Never thought of Brahms as strange and modern.  Cracks me up!

[lelle]

That's an impressive bunch of work, Lelle.

Mine was much modester. I did a house concert in the fall with 4 Scarlatti sonatas (K27,87,380,531), the Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue in C major, the Grieg Air from the Holberg Suite, and Schubert's Opus 90 4 Impromptus. Now I'm working on the next program, the Bach Partita in Bb, Brahms Opus 116 #5, 118 #6, and 119 #1, all strange and modern, and the last one Op 119 #1, has a whole lifetime's worth of emotion in under 4 minutes. Those and then the first book of Janacek, On an Overgrown Path. Learned all the notes on all of them, but have lots of refining to do before I could play them in front of anybody other than family.

That's a good amount of work too! I think there is a significant difference between polishing something up for concert, like you did, and memorizing pieces and getting them up in tempo but not full performance tempo, like I did. It's the final stretch getting it ready and secure for public performance that's more than half the work, and that's the work I did not do that certainly enables you to tackle more pieces.

[brogers70]

Never thought of Brahms as strange and modern.  Cracks me up!

Well, in a temporal sense, every composer is modern while they are writing, but I meant something a little different. I mean modern in the sense that he uses a language and set of conventions that lead to expectations about how things should go, but then pushes things in an unexpected direction to violate those expectations. So something hundreds of years old can be modern in that sense - Gesualdo madrigals, Biber violin sonatas, the Musical Offering, the Grosse Fugue. Those late Brahms piano pieces, to me, are modern in that sense.

[pianistavt]

Very good idea for a post, it's helpful to review the year.  Motivates to make a plan for next year.

The pieces I performed/recorded or have a good ways along that track are:
Felix Arndt - Nola
Bach - prelude/fugue in Eb from book 2
Bartok - Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (4 out of 6), Sonatina
Beethoven - sonata op 109 (mostly first two mvmts), sonata op 31 #3 (4th mvmt)
Brahms - Intermezzo op 119 no 3
Chopin - ballade 3, scherzo 2, ballade 2, etude op 25/8
Confrey - Coaxing the Piano
Debussy - toccata
Gershwin - 3rd prelude
Moskowski - etude op 72 no 3
Prokofiev - pieces from Romeo/Juliet:  nos 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9
Scriabin - etude op 42 no 7, preludes op 11: in C, in e, in a
Czerny - op 740 no 8 (lh), 49 (octaves), 31 (arp)
            - op 299 no 7 (transpose), no 12 (transpose)

I played through older pieces, including many studies by Czerny and Chopin pieces.
I also worked on these pieces but am in an early stage:

John Adams - China Gates
Beethoven - opus 109 3rd mvmt
Brahms - Rhapsody in b minor op 79, Capriccio in d minor op 116
Prokofiev - the other pieces from op 75, Romeo/Juliet
Scriabin - sonata 2

[lelle]

Very good idea for a post, it's helpful to review the year.  Motivates to make a plan for next year.

The pieces I performed/recorded or have a good ways along that track are:
Felix Arndt - Nola
Bach - prelude/fugue in Eb from book 2
Bartok - Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (4 out of 6), Sonatina
Beethoven - sonata op 109 (mostly first two mvmts), sonata op 31 #3 (4th mvmt)
Brahms - Intermezzo op 119 no 3
Chopin - ballade 3, scherzo 2, ballade 2, etude op 25/8
Confrey - Coaxing the Piano
Debussy - toccata
Gershwin - 3rd prelude
Moskowski - etude op 72 no 3
Prokofiev - pieces from Romeo/Juliet:  nos 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9
Scriabin - etude op 42 no 7, preludes op 11: in C, in e, in a
Czerny - op 740 no 8 (lh), 49 (octaves), 31 (arp)
            - op 299 no 7 (transpose), no 12 (transpose)

I played through older pieces, including many studies by Czerny and Chopin pieces.
I also worked on these pieces but am in an early stage:

John Adams - China Gates
Beethoven - opus 109 3rd mvmt
Brahms - Rhapsody in b minor op 79, Capriccio in d minor op 116
Prokofiev - the other pieces from op 75, Romeo/Juliet
Scriabin - sonata 2

Good haul! And that was the plan, to hopefully encourage inspiration and new plans for the next year

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I have practiced mostly concertos last year, but here's a list of all the pieces I have studied over the last year, which honestly isn't a lot, but hopefully I can do even more this year!

Bach - Sinfonias No. 3-15, Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major
Mozart - Piano Concertos No. 20 and 21 in D Minor (full) and C Major (1st movement)
Saint-Saëns - Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Op. 22 (1st movement)
Beethoven - Sonata No. 18 Op. 31 No. 3 (full)
Debussy - Prelude from Pour le Piano, Jardins sous la pluie
Chopin - Etudes Op 10. No 5-7
Liszt - Liebestraum No. 3 in A-Flat Major
Brahms - Rhapsody Op. 119 No. 4 in E-flat Major
Sousa/Horowitz - The Stars and Stripes Forever

There are also a bunch of RCM pieces that I studied with my teacher, since I'm still on those books, but hopefully I can be finished with them this year since I'm at level 10 now 

[pianistavt]

I have practiced mostly concertos last year, but here's a list of all the pieces I have studied over the last year, which honestly isn't a lot, but hopefully I can do even more this year!

Bach - Sinfonias No. 3-15, Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major
Mozart - Piano Concertos No. 20 and 21 in D Minor (full) and C Major (1st movement)
Saint-Saëns - Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Op. 22 (1st movement)
Beethoven - Sonata No. 18 Op. 31 No. 3 (full)
Debussy - Prelude from Pour le Piano, Jardins sous la pluie
Chopin - Etudes Op 10. No 5-7
Liszt - Liebestraum No. 3 in A-Flat Major
Brahms - Rhapsody Op. 119 No. 4 in E-flat Major
Sousa/Horowitz - The Stars and Stripes Forever

There are also a bunch of RCM pieces that I studied with my teacher, since I'm still on those books, but hopefully I can be finished with them this year since I'm at level 10 now 

That's a lot of music!  13 Sinfonias!  And the Partita is 17 minutes of music.  And two complete Mozart concertos!  Sounds like 3-4 hours a day of practicing, to me.

[lelle]

That's a lot of music!  13 Sinfonias!  And the Partita is 17 minutes of music.  And two complete Mozart concertos!  Sounds like 3-4 hours a day of practicing, to me.

You can let a suprising amount done if you are organized, efficient, and work on repertoire close to your level!

[gralva]

I'm fairly new to the piano. Played trumpet professionally for a couple decades. Muscles started dying, kidneys and liver failure, muscle weakness, then almost ended up in a coma. As it turns out, all I needed was thyroxine for severe hypothyroidism. Unfortunately, the damage around my lips was permanent. In order to fill that musical void, I picked up piano at the end of 2023. Here's the stuff I leaned in 2024. I had a huge head start to most beginners because I only need too learn piano technique and sight-reading. (Excuse my lack of opus numbers and such.)

Grieg Notturno, Watchman's Song
Chopin Marche Funebre
Chopin Preludes #2, 4, 6, 7 and 20
Chopin  Mazurka op 17 #4 in a minor
Beethoven Moonlight Sonata mvt 1
Liszt Consolation #1
Liszt Etudes #4 in D minor
Bach Preludes no 1 in C Major
Bach Little Preludes for the beginner #1
Bach Six Little Preludes #1
Bach Inventions #1 & #4
Satie Gymnopedie #1

You can probably guess the approximate order here.

[lelle]

I'm fairly new to the piano. Played trumpet professionally for a couple decades. Muscles started dying, kidneys and liver failure, muscle weakness, then almost ended up in a coma. As it turns out, all I needed was thyroxine for severe hypothyroidism. Unfortunately, the damage around my lips was permanent. In order to fill that musical void, I picked up piano at the end of 2023. Here's the stuff I leaned in 2024. I had a huge head start to most beginners because I only need too learn piano technique and sight-reading. (Excuse my lack of opus numbers and such.)

Grieg Notturno, Watchman's Song
Chopin Marche Funebre
Chopin Preludes #2, 4, 6, 7 and 20
Chopin  Mazurka op 17 #4 in a minor
Beethoven Moonlight Sonata mvt 1
Liszt Consolation #1
Liszt Etudes #4 in D minor
Bach Preludes no 1 in C Major
Bach Little Preludes for the beginner #1
Bach Six Little Preludes #1
Bach Inventions #1 & #4
Satie Gymnopedie #1

You can probably guess the approximate order here.

That's a good haul. Sorry about your illness, I can't imagine being robbed of your primary instrument.