Classical Sonata audition program for conservatory (Musikhochschu

[prokmaninoff]

Hello, I have a question about conservatory audition program in switzerland.

It is required to play a full classical Sonata or variation-work, but in a few other schools here just a main sonata movement.

What would you recommend? I have from now about a 1.5 years time.

I'm 17 and the hardest pieces that I played are:

Chopin 3rd Ballade (working on), a good amount of etudes (excluding hard one like Op. 10/2 etc.)

Debussy Feux d'artifice

Prokofjew 3rd Mov. from 2nd Piano Concerto (working on)

Rachmaninow Etude-Tableaux Op.. 33/6 e-flat minor, Op. 39/9 (not finished yet)

I have never played a full length sonata, all movements by classical composer, I'm more interested in contemporary music and 20th century...

Classical works that I played are:
Beethoven Sonata Op. 49/2, Für Elise:), a few other bagatelles, started 1st mov. of Op. 31/2 (stopped because I lost interest), 1st mov. of Op. 109 (my favourite sonata ever)
Mozart: KV 333 1st mov. , KV 545 3rd mov. , Fantasy KV 397

So what would you recommend? I kinda like Waldstein but not sure how hard it is. And I don't know about Mozart, because it is really hard to play his music exceptional in an audition.

Im Award, that it depends with difficulty and different schools etc…

Thanks for feedback!

[lelle]

If you find Mozart difficult to play well in an audition, anything early to mid Beethoven would be a good choice. Maybe skip the most famous ones like the Moonlight sonata. I think jury's hear a lot of Waldstein's in auditions too, so I'd pick a lesser known sonata.