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piano piece suggestions?

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bluemanrocks
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States304 Posts
November 16 2008 03:14 GMT
#1
so ive been playing classical piano for around 10 years now, but am just REALLY getting into it. ive always practiced/played more than the average player, but now i actually havent been able to stop. right now im learning liebestraume by franz liszt (about halfway done), and i picked up chopin's winter wind's etude 4 days ago and am just finishing the first page. unfortunately i have an extreme inability to concentrate on one thing at a time, so though i will continue to work on and polish these pieces, i am desperately working on more stuff. for the past month i basically learned a couple easy, popular pieces (fur elise, claire de lune, rondo alla turca, pachabell's cannon) as filler so i wouldnt get bored, but im basically done with them now. i was also thinking of working on something REALLY hard, a long term proejct kind of thing like hungarian rhapsody 2/la campanella (im a liszt freak)/tchaikovsky's piano concerto #1, but i dunno if thatll help at all, or just be unbelievably frustrating.

i know some of my friends and, other people general get bored with music, but no one really has any ideas, so i was hoping tl may have some brilliant suggestions. anybody have any good, time-filling pieces/studies?

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Xeofreestyler
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
Belgium6776 Posts
November 16 2008 03:16 GMT
#2
Can you play moonlight sonata's 3d movement

If you can please record it or something I love that piece
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Xeofreestyler
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
Belgium6776 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-11-16 03:19:04
November 16 2008 03:17 GMT
#3
I also love


and I guess if you really want something to work on there's rachmaninoff if you havent already
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zgl
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
United States1055 Posts
November 16 2008 03:20 GMT
#4
Right now, I like:
Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata (no. 29)
Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata (no. 21)
Bach's Goldberg Variations

You can get some nice free insight from http://music.guardian.co.uk/classical/page/0,,1943867,00.html
Slithe
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States985 Posts
November 16 2008 03:25 GMT
#5
As a Chopin fan, I recommend fantasie impromptu for a shorter and relatively easier work, or one of the Ballades for something tougher.

If you wanna try playing something hellish, you could try Ravel's Scarbo, from Gaspard de la Nuit.
bluemanrocks
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States304 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-11-16 03:27:22
November 16 2008 03:26 GMT
#6
well i know rach's two most famous preludes (g and c# minor) and those are fun, but a tiring stretch for your hands. i was thinking of learning moonlight sonata, but the first movement is such a turn-off for me because its so drawn out, and its weird playing the sonata without the first movement.

i have the music for goldberg variations and i have a photocopy hammerklavier somewhere, i actually was thinking of digging up the goldberg variations but id actually have to find them =\

edit: also have chopin ballades, learned the first, but thats another good idea thanks so far for your guys' suggestions
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Xenocide_Knight
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Korea (South)2625 Posts
November 16 2008 03:27 GMT
#7
Rach 2
and beethoven pathetique
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Titusmaster6
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States5937 Posts
November 16 2008 03:27 GMT
#8

Chopin "Raindrop"


Tchaikovsky "Juin"
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Empyrean
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
17066 Posts
November 16 2008 03:28 GMT
#9
On November 16 2008 12:25 Slithe wrote:
As a Chopin fan, I recommend fantasie impromptu for a shorter and relatively easier work, or one of the Ballades for something tougher.

If you wanna try playing something hellish, you could try Ravel's Scarbo, from Gaspard de la Nuit.


Are you honestly suggesting Scarbo?

...
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Epicfailguy
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Norway893 Posts
November 16 2008 03:28 GMT
#10

Best piano song ever.
imDerek
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States1944 Posts
November 16 2008 03:29 GMT
#11
yaya liszt is so good

u should play his transcendental etudes
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Empyrean
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
17066 Posts
November 16 2008 03:33 GMT
#12
On November 16 2008 12:29 imDerek wrote:
yaya liszt is so good

u should play his transcendental etudes


If he can't play a simple Liszt piece like his Liebestraumes, there's no way he's going to attempt any of his etudes, not even relatively easy ones like his concert etudes, much less his transcendental etudes.
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bluemanrocks
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States304 Posts
November 16 2008 03:34 GMT
#13
wow, didnt expect this many suggestions/classical people on tl. anyone else playing classical piano (or other classical/orchestral stuff? im also a percussionist of 6 years or so, and want to pick up clarinet and either trumpet or french horn. i honestly eat breathe live music). if so what are you guys working on/how do you like it?

also, just a little note, i kinda wanna stay away from one of chopins opus 25 etudes, winter winds is enough for now

and transcendental etudes/scarbo would actaully be AMAZING but it would take forever to learn
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Slithe
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States985 Posts
November 16 2008 03:36 GMT
#14
On November 16 2008 12:28 Empyrean wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 16 2008 12:25 Slithe wrote:
As a Chopin fan, I recommend fantasie impromptu for a shorter and relatively easier work, or one of the Ballades for something tougher.

If you wanna try playing something hellish, you could try Ravel's Scarbo, from Gaspard de la Nuit.


Are you honestly suggesting Scarbo?

...


lol not really, but it would be fun to see someone try.
bluemanrocks
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States304 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-11-16 03:39:33
November 16 2008 03:36 GMT
#15
On November 16 2008 12:33 Empyrean wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 16 2008 12:29 imDerek wrote:
yaya liszt is so good

u should play his transcendental etudes


If he can't play a simple Liszt piece like his Liebestraumes, there's no way he's going to attempt any of his etudes, not even relatively easy ones like his concert etudes, much less his transcendental etudes.


ouch, lol. and i just picked it up and started to learn it casually and i should be done soon. anyways i was thinking of gnomenreigen since i have the sheets and have looked it over before, so if anyones played it before if you have any input as to how that learning process would go, thatd be nice

EDIT: also, though follets is obviously infinitely harder, liebestraume's cadences/the end of the middle section is harder than a bunch of parts from the transcendentals. not saying the transcendentals are easier, as even the easiest is harder, but liebestraume has its moments. and also, i didnt choose liebestraume for its technical difficulty, i chose it because i loved the piece.
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Chromyne
Profile Joined January 2008
Canada561 Posts
November 16 2008 03:54 GMT
#16
Not sure if you're into this kind of stuff, but one of Nikolai Kapustin's concert etudes or his 2nd piano sonata (I believe). That would be awesome.
Soli Deo gloria.
triangle
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States3803 Posts
November 16 2008 03:56 GMT
#17
Mephisto waltz #1 is my favorite piece by Linszt.



Although it would be really hard
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Empyrean
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
17066 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-11-16 04:00:07
November 16 2008 03:58 GMT
#18
On November 16 2008 12:36 bluemanrocks wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 16 2008 12:33 Empyrean wrote:
On November 16 2008 12:29 imDerek wrote:
yaya liszt is so good

u should play his transcendental etudes


If he can't play a simple Liszt piece like his Liebestraumes, there's no way he's going to attempt any of his etudes, not even relatively easy ones like his concert etudes, much less his transcendental etudes.


ouch, lol. and i just picked it up and started to learn it casually and i should be done soon. anyways i was thinking of gnomenreigen since i have the sheets and have looked it over before, so if anyones played it before if you have any input as to how that learning process would go, thatd be nice

EDIT: also, though follets is obviously infinitely harder, liebestraume's cadences/the end of the middle section is harder than a bunch of parts from the transcendentals. not saying the transcendentals are easier, as even the easiest is harder, but liebestraume has its moments. and also, i didnt choose liebestraume for its technical difficulty, i chose it because i loved the piece.


The second cadenza in the Liebestraume you're playing is a very simple downwards chromatic progression. Not to disparage it or anything, but it's pretty much mindless in the sense that once you know the "trick", it's very, very simple. If you compare it to sections in some other pieces with more tricky fingerings, not as obvious progressions/patterns, etc., it's technically a lot easier than lots of his other stuff. (The first cadenza is more difficult, actually).

Hell, even the sustained difficulty of some of his other etudes are technically harder than that cadenza (pages of the first edition to some of his paganini etudes, for example).

Anyway, I'm not such a big Liszt fan...which isn't to disparage his pieces, or anything. I do enjoy them to some extent.

To get some useful suggestions, what pieces have you finished?
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404.Nintu
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Canada1723 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-11-16 04:05:21
November 16 2008 04:03 GMT
#19


Greatest Fugue of all time. I know you wanted Classical but I hope Baroque is alright? I don't think anything else can compare to this.

Edit: Proper link.
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Chromyne
Profile Joined January 2008
Canada561 Posts
November 16 2008 04:06 GMT
#20
Well he's played Rach, Chopin, etc. so I think he means classical in the more loose sense of the term.
Soli Deo gloria.
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