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It's been a while since this question was asked. What's everybody working on?

For me:

Debussy: Girl with the Flaxen Hair (Prelude VIII)
Clementi: Sonata Op. 26 No. 2
Chopin: Etude Op. 10 No. 1, No. 12
Haydn: Concerto in D major (Done! Concerto competition in December!!!)

I need to pick a new concerto soon. My teacher is thinking the Grieg. What would you suggest?

Matt

Hey, great concerto. Have you heard Andsnes's recording? Have you heard Piano_Dad's son's recording? (He's "bookworm" here, right?)


For me:

Mendelssohn: Variations Serieuses
Scarlatti: Sonata in f minor, K466
Scarlatti: Sonata in A Major, K113

Also rewriting one of my own pieces, and practicing that and something else of mine.

I'm also doing a term paper on Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique). It's not a piano piece necessarily, but I did get a copy of the solo piano score. :p

Chopin: Scherzo in C-Sharp Minor Op. 39 (Clean up)

Haydn: Sonata in E-Major Hob. XVI:49 (learning)
Allegro
Adagio e cantabile
Finale: Tempo di Minuet

Haven't updated my sig yet, here's the current batch:

Scarlatti - Sonata in C Major K159
Schubert - Impromptu in A-Flat
Debussy - L'Isle Joyeuse
Chopin - Nocturne in C# Minor posth.

Coincidence Matt, I just finished recording my version of "Girl with the Flaxen Hair" (going to be on my youtube sometime soon). It's a great, short piece. I also benefited from reading the poem it's based on.

Theowne - I talked with a pianist who has played this quite a bit and recorded it a few times. He said the it terms of technique... it is not very challenging, but musically (much to do with dynamics) speaking it is very hard. Please PM me when you post your recording on Youtube.

Thanks,
Matt

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you could also consider the mendelssohn piano concerto no.1 in g minor or the schumann concerto

Thanks for your suggestion Amelia! We've been looking for at The Schumann aswell. I'll definatly need to start working on a new one in December after the competition.

Matt

On Monday in studio class, I'm playing a few things:

Debussy: Les collines d'Anacapri, Des pas sur la neige, and Ondine
Stravinsky: Trois Movements de Petrouchka

After that, I've got a violin recital. It's cakewalk rep - a Bach Sonata, Beethoven Kreutzer, Poulenc Sonata, and some Gershwin. :rolleyes:

Next semester (my last in school!) will be fun - Tchaikovsky Trio, Pierrot Lunaire, Barber Concerto for some competitions, and few solo programs.

I also have to come up with a lecture-recital topic, STAT. I was thinking of either John Adams' Phrygian Gates or doing a program of a Chinese and Japanese music with Cage's 4'33" in between. The overall idea in the latter would be meditation in music as it exists in various styles. Not sure if I can convince my teacher on it, though.

Chopin Etude Op 25 No 4 and No 6, and some other stuff.

Theowne, thanks for mentioning this - I didn't know the piece was connected with a poem.

Here's a link to the poem if anyone else is interested.
http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Fille_aux_cheveux_de_lin

Chopin etude op. 25 no 11.
Bach sinfonia 14, going to start g-minor fugue from book 2 next week.
Beethoven sonata op.2 no. 1

Beethoven 32 variations in c minor (just start)
Bach invention 9 (finishing up)
Rach op.16.4 (continue)
Chopin op.10.2 (put aside for a while, and start again)

Chopin: Heroic Polonaise Op. 53
Etude No. 12 Op. 25

Brahms Sonata in F minor (Op. 5)
Schubert Sonata in A minor (can't remember the opus number)
Liszt 1st Piano Concerto

I just started school this semester for my Master's in Piano Performance and thought I'd take it easy the first semester! Didn't end up happening though! Next semester, I'm going to try to work on Bach's Partita No. 4 (D major), continue work on the Liszt, maybe do Liszt's Transcendental Etude 11 (I think - Harmonie de Soirs) and definitely do Beethoven Op. 111.

Stravinsky: Trois Movements de Petrouchka

I absolutely love the Petrouchka suite, I listen to it pratically everyday, it sounds so fun to play and is delightful. If my hands were not so small, I would learn it.

the op. number for the schumann concerto is op.54

I started all new music this semester. I am trying to be ready for a recital this April. I am playing Bach Prelude and Fugue in F Minor bk. 1,
Mozart Sonata in F Major K. 332, Rachmaninov Etude in Eb Minor (the famous one), Rzewski North American Ballades (just the first movement so far), and Liszt Valle d'Obermann. I still need to add another 10 minutes to the program, I am either going to learn a few Rach Preludes to add to the Etude as a set or learn another movement of the Rzewski.

Been working on some of these more than others.

Bach: Sinfonias 12-15
Bach: French Suite No. 6 E Major
Scarlatti: Sonata in C Major K 461 (I think)
Beethoven: Tempest Sonata
Chopin: Etude Op. 10 No. 4 c# minor
Schumann: Papillons Op. 2


I hope to finish the Sinfonias by the end of year so I can finally be finished learning all the two and three part inventions. I still play through some of them of course. And I am also accompanying a Trumpet player in a piece. Otherwise, I am keeping pretty busy

When I say I'm working on pieces I mean I'm working on them on... it could still take me another year to master.

Grieg: Concerto in A Minor (Slowly... All Movements) (Will take awile)
Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata (Just started working on last movement. I've pretty much mastered the first movement... but it could always get better.)
Bach: Prelude in C minor (I'm almost done with this... for some reason I can't master the accidentals.)
Chopin: Revolutionary Etude (I better work to finish this by contest in Jan.)
Rachmaninoff: G Minor Prelude (I'm not even close...)

I'm also working in some theory/technique books.