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Offline gralva

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Bucket list works?
on: January 20, 2025, 04:09:31 PM
What are works that you want to learn in their entirety before you leave us behind to fend for ourselves?

For me, Liszt Sonata in B Minor and Chopin Berceuse in D flat Major. And that's just so far. I haven't listened to everything yet. Others can be on my list, but not as much as those two works.

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Re: Bucket list works?
Reply #1 on: January 20, 2025, 04:42:07 PM
A ton of them. Right now, Schubert D 958, Schumann Humoreske, Scriabin Sonata 4, Schoenberg Little Pieces, Webern Variations, Schubert D 946, and Chopin Ballade 3 are farthest down. I have yet to get to everything I want to play. There's just too much good music out there. I do have a list, though, and it's 28 pages long. I doubt I'll ever play that much but most music gets really good once you explore it enough.
last 3 schubert sonatas and piano trios are something else

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Re: Bucket list works?
Reply #2 on: January 20, 2025, 06:32:55 PM
Currently, my main "end-goal" is Liszt's S. 139 version of Mazeppa.

Le Festin d'Esope (Alkan) is another one that I eventually want to reach. That's even further away, though.
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Re: Bucket list works?
Reply #3 on: January 20, 2025, 09:41:22 PM
Beethoven's Les Adieux sonata and Schubert's last sonata in Bb.

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Re: Bucket list works?
Reply #4 on: January 21, 2025, 12:27:32 PM
Nice list. I had to listen to most of those. They Schubert Sonata is lovely. Honestly, I was never a fan of playing Schubert, but I've always enjoyed listening to it.

I'd only ever heard of Alkan as being difficult. I hadn't listened to his music. That one sounds like it's really hard to make the picture correct.

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Re: Bucket list works?
Reply #5 on: January 21, 2025, 06:54:44 PM
My list is unfortunately long..

Paganini/Liszt etude No. 6 S.141, Spanish Fantasy

Scriabin Sonata 5

Chopin Ballade No. 4, Barcarolle Op. 60, all the etudes, preludes, nocturnes

Bach all of WTC

++A lot more

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Re: Bucket list works?
Reply #6 on: January 21, 2025, 10:53:50 PM
John Adams - Hallelujah Junction
Bartok - suite op 14
Brahms - Handel Variations
Chopin - Barcarolle, 4th ballade, fantasy in f minor, various etudes
Godowsky - Java Suite, Passacaglia
Liszt - La Campenella, Mazeppa
Medtner - some shorter pieces
Ornstein - sonata 4 and/or 8
Prokofiev - 5th sonata, 7th sonata, 8th sonata, suggestion diabolique
Schubert - sonatas: a minor d845, A major d959, Bb d960
Stravinsky - Petroushka (1st and 2nd pieces)



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Re: Bucket list works?
Reply #7 on: January 23, 2025, 03:53:05 PM
Beethoven's Les Adieux sonata and Schubert's last sonata in Bb.

BROGERS70 - What about Brahms - you love Brahms, right?  Maybe his rhapsodies op 79?

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Re: Bucket list works?
Reply #8 on: January 23, 2025, 07:06:17 PM
BROGERS70 - What about Brahms - you love Brahms, right?  Maybe his rhapsodies op 79?

I do love Brahms, he's just not on my bucket list because I'm already learning his late piano pieces (Opus 116-119) and his sonatas are likely to remain beyond my technical level. I've never actually been crazy about Opus 79.

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Re: Bucket list works?
Reply #9 on: January 25, 2025, 08:12:03 AM
My list is unfortunately long..

Paganini/Liszt etude No. 6 S.141, Spanish Fantasy

Scriabin Sonata 5

Chopin Ballade No. 4, Barcarolle Op. 60, all the etudes, preludes, nocturnes

Bach all of WTC

++A lot more

WTC... That's quite the undertaking. There are really a lot nice pieces in there. For me, as far Bach goes: Fantasy and Fugue and in a minor BWV 944. Not incredibly hard, but damn it sounds cool.

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Re: Bucket list works?
Reply #10 on: January 25, 2025, 01:11:21 PM
I've had the fortune of playing many of my bucket list works when I was in music college and during the 4-5 years that followed. There are still many great works out there but many of my true bucket list works have already been studied at least once.

Some things that are left are:
Scriabin Sonata 5
Scriabin Sonata 4
Scriabin Sonata 9
Scriabin Etude Op 42 no 5
Chopin Scherzo 3
Ravel Miroirs

Plus a number of others i can't remember at the moment

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Re: Bucket list works?
Reply #11 on: January 25, 2025, 05:30:44 PM
I've had the fortune of playing many of my bucket list works when I was in music college and during the 4-5 years that followed. There are still many great works out there but many of my true bucket list works have already been studied at least once.

Some things that are left are:
Scriabin Sonata 5
Scriabin Sonata 4
Scriabin Sonata 9
Scriabin Etude Op 42 no 5
Chopin Scherzo 3
Ravel Miroirs

Plus a number of others i can't remember at the moment

Lelle - Since you've played so much Scriabin, may I recommend Samuil Feinberg sonata 3 for your bucket list?



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Re: Bucket list works?
Reply #12 on: January 25, 2025, 06:04:23 PM
i know this is a piano rather than organ forum, but I had a bucket list for the organ, and after performing them all in church services, I kinda lost enthusiam, and returned to the piano.

Bach's major preludes and fugues and fantasie's and the passacaglia of course.
Liszt Ad Nos, Warem sarem and Bach fantasie and fugue
Rheinberger sonata
Ruebke sonata
Alain trois danses, two fantasies
Various Messiaen pieces incl. Dieux Parmi Nous
Franck chorales 1 and 3
Elgar sonata
hakim fantasie on Adeste Fidelis

the above are all great pieces of music. demanding musically and technically. Much of the organ repetoire less so. i used to play the Brahms choral preludes a lot.

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Re: Bucket list works?
Reply #13 on: January 25, 2025, 06:11:41 PM
Since you've played so much Scriabin, may I recommend Samuil Feinberg sonata 3 for your bucket list?

Thanks for the recommendation! I haven't played much Scriabin at all actually. Just the 2nd sonata and the Etudes op 2 no 1 and op 8 no 12.

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Re: Bucket list works?
Reply #14 on: January 25, 2025, 06:18:23 PM
My piano bucket list includes Scriabin Fantasy, but it is very difficult to make convincing, particularly the fast quiet passages, with multiple lines. It is much more difficult than it sounds.

I have already performed sonatas 10 and 8 in master classes or in public. Sofronitsky is the master in the 8th.

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Re: Bucket list works?
Reply #15 on: January 29, 2025, 04:18:06 PM
I've had the fortune of playing many of my bucket list works when I was in music college and during the 4-5 years that followed. There are still many great works out there but many of my true bucket list works have already been studied at least once.

Some things that are left are:
Scriabin Sonata 5
Scriabin Sonata 4
Scriabin Sonata 9
Scriabin Etude Op 42 no 5
Chopin Scherzo 3
Ravel Miroirs

Plus a number of others i can't remember at the moment

I hadn't heard the Scriabin Sonatas until you mentioned them. Some of them have really hauntingly beautiful melodies, very rich harmonies too. I'm probably going to end up getting the complete set. I like to follow along with the music while I listen, especially of tunes out of my league, for now

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Re: Bucket list works?
Reply #16 on: February 12, 2025, 03:49:45 AM
Alkan Grande Sonate, Alkan 12 etudes in all the minor keys, Sorabji Sequentia Cyclica, Sorabji in the Hothouse, Scriabin Black Mass (Sonata no.9), Tausig/Wagner Die Walkure, Alkan Symphony for Solo Piano, Alkan Concerto for solo piano, Liszt Totentanz

That's my very much overshot bucket list. Working on J.S. Bach WTC 2 and Liszt Der Doppleganger. I preformed Dopplerganger and just started the WTC. Been playing for about 6 years.

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Re: Bucket list works?
Reply #17 on: February 12, 2025, 11:26:35 AM
Alkan Grande Sonate, Alkan 12 etudes in all the minor keys, Sorabji Sequentia Cyclica, Sorabji in the Hothouse, Scriabin Black Mass (Sonata no.9), Tausig/Wagner Die Walkure, Alkan Symphony for Solo Piano, Alkan Concerto for solo piano, Liszt Totentanz
Well, I have some good news for you.
Alkan's Symphony and Concerto are both contained within Op. 39, the Minor Keys Etudes.
So you can technically scratch those two off the list already. :)
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