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Just so you know, this piano recital does not involve heavy artillery. We are talking about canons here.

I thought you Yanks don't go in for understatement?

Here is a first try at program order. Please feel free to take it apart and to alter your repertoire selections.

Bach-Busoni: chorale preludes (Polyphonist)
Bach-Petri: chorale prelude (doctor S)

Rachmaninoff: Prelude Op 23 no 5 (Vid)

Bach: French Suite no. 4 (Pover)

Chopin: group of pieces (ec)
Chopin: Etude Op 10 no 4 (doctor S)

Ponce: prelude and fugue (doctor S)

Gibbons: pavane, allemande, courante (FSO)

Stanchinsky: mazurka and maybe variations (FSO)

Ravel: Prelude and fugue from Tombeau de Couperin (Tim)

Schoenfield: Intermezzi no. 1 and 3 (Tim)

Bach: Contrapunctus no. 1 from Art of Fugue (FSO)

All we know of MikeN so far is that he doesn't want to play a fugue MikeN does anything occur to you?
and Vid would you like to play more in addition to the one prelude? (you don't have to of course)

Heather, thanks for assembling this! Personally, I like both the repertoire as listed and the order of presentation. I will therefore proceed with polishing the Ravel and Schoenfield for recording next month.

So I see we're not going for anything in particular regarding a contrapuntal theme. In that case, why not just put the recital in chronological order. I don't think the chorale preludes should be first; better to have the French Suite take that position. I will be inserting a Schumann fugue somewhere into the recital as well.

It sure looks like a counterpoint themed recital with several fugues to me!
To you, does 'theme' mean 'many pieces that have this characteristic' or 'absolutely no pieces that do not have this characteristic'?

French Suite first is fine.

What would be the rationale behind presenting pieces in historical order?

It's usual, and all else being equal, advisable.

I can't remember ever being at a recital that went in historical order, except for one student festival where it was required.

I'm used to programs in historical order mainly because it is the format of the RCM requirements - Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Late Romantic, 'Modern'. Some like to order a program according to keys but I don't know if that's something an audience actually will pick up on.

I could possibly also play a 2 part invention or a straight up Bach Chorale.

When I was a lad, which was about 300 years ago it was pretty usual for the pieces in a program to be more-or-less in chronological order. It seemed to me that this had changed in the last few decades at least to the point that there was no expectation that this would be so; the order seemed to be more on the basis of overall 'flow' or 'emotion' or 'structure'-- in other words, whatever would seem to make musical sense or narrative sense or dramatic sense. In any event, I'm quite sure it doesn't particularly go against anything if your order isn't chronological.

About what Vid said about doing it according to keys: I think that's quite unusual, except to the extent that it's not uncommon to group two pieces together (or maybe a few, but usually two) according to their keys.

BTW, FWIW, here's what was the order in my first recital, which was 42 years ago (and, need I say I wasn't any kind of pace-setter):

Schubert
Haydn
Ives
Chopin

I'm quite grateful to join in the Bach 'n all a 'ya celebration, even if we do not ascend higher than the foot of the fugal mountain. I hope we get a full 15+++ (or 115!) minutes of Polyphonist though (is this his first PW recital?) Chorales, Bach's and Polyphonist's, a Polyphonist Fugue (?), the Polyphonist BWV 553 organ-piano transcription , Schumann, (Chopin??, Rachmaninoff??) I would rather hear 30min of Poly than 1min of me. I vote for at least a 2-slot Special Dispensation.

Yes, I'll kindly add Chopin's Op.45 prelude, Godowsky's op.10 no.6 and Hamelin's Prelude and Fugue if you can fit them. I know we already have quite a bit of Chopin.

We do, but that one etude looked so lonely out there by itself now it will have company.

Aaah can I "perhaps" participate? I want to add this piece, but I have to polish the Ravel sonatine for a masterclass in the "near future"( actual words from this teacher, I don't know exactly when it'll be ).
But maybe you guys can give me your opinion if the piece 'fits', otherwise I don't even bother trying to finish it in time and just focus on the Ravel and my other repertoire.
It's a brazilian piece, very polyphonic. Full of inner voices. It's a Ponteio (prelude) by a brazilian composer, Mozart Guarnieri.

I don't really like this recording, but it's the only one on youtube.

Hi Francisco, This particular program is full now, but you could always post in the Member Recording section and get some good feedback.
Assuming all goes well with this recital I plan to host another in September and you'd be more than welcome then.
I look forward to hearing you play!

No problem Heather! It's probably for the best anyways. By september I hope to be more organized. Good luck with the recital! It looks promising

Hey, would you be so kind as to substitute the Hamelin prelude and fugue for the Op. 8 No.2 and 12 Scriabin Etudes. I decided I didn't want to torture myself for a month and a half to torture listeners with an inevitably inadequate performance.

By "substitute for" you mean that you do NOT want to play Hamelin, and you DO want to play two Scriabin etudes, right?

Yes

I would like to add a couple of two-part inventions. They probably will be 1 and 2, C+ and c-.

Should be 'fun' trying to get a good take on those.