chopin or liszt

[paris]

i need to choose one big romantic piece and i was thinking about:
-chopin polonaise op.44  f# minor
-chopin scherzo b flat minor
-chopin ballade F major
or, maybe some liszt works, if you could recomend, because i'm not familiar very much with his works.
with schubert and shumann i'm not in love to much, and brahms i recently played, so i can't play again some brahms.

[steinwayguy]

I think you should still listen to the Schumann Symphonic Etudes. However, of the Chopin you mentinoed, I say go with the polonaise. It's not too often played, but the scherzo and ballade are.  Liszt- maybe something from Les Annes de Pelerinages like "Apres une Lecture du Dante" but that's a hell of a lot of work.

[paris]

i thought about polonaise too, but i have never played liszt, so i'm still thinking. thanx!

[apion]

Personally, I much prefer Liszt over Chopin.  Go for it!

[thierry13]

If you look for a big romantic piece by liszt, go for his opera transcriptions or his sonata.

[dinosaurtales]

I am amazed at the recent fascination of pianists playing transcriptions in recitals.  Seems like every third recital has a transcription of some sort in it, whether it was originally from an orchestral piece, or a song, or somewhere else.  Why on earth would pianists bother with such stuff when there is SOOOOOOO much literature out there actually composed for the piano - and good stuff, too! 

Any answers?  I  for one am less than impressed with this recent "fad". 

[thierry13]

I don't really see what you have against those two pieces, I consider them as pieces of the piano litterature too. And I was talking about Rigoletto and Don Juan transcriptions. And by the way, i heard them both only once, so I don't said that because they are often played 

[presto agitato]

i need to choose one big romantic piece

Andante and Rondo Capriccioso in E major by Felix Mendelssohn = The Best choice IMO

[paris]

If you look for a big romantic piece by liszt, go for his opera transcriptions or his sonata.

i'm not ready to play his sonata 

maybe if someaone could list me some liszt pieces which are not hard as sonata, but at level of polonaise op.44 and stuffs i wrote.

[IanT]

How about "St. Francois de Paule marchant sur les flots"?  This is an impressive-sounding piece, it's shorter and easier than the B minor or Dante sonatas.

You could also try "Vallee d'Obermann" from the "Suisse" volume of "Annees de Pelerinage".  This is one of my favourite Liszt pieces, although some may find large parts of it too slow.

Ian

[Daevren]

Just pick your favorite one.


Or, if you cannot choose(which could be considered some kind of weakness).

Have the teacher assign you a piece