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Saracen
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affinity
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i think it's quite an impressive song; whenever i play it, i usually get a positive response from my listeners. i like how this guy interprets the piece: | ||
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bluemanrocks
United States304 Posts
On November 16 2008 12:58 Empyrean wrote: 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? was referring to the first cadenza, and more of the climax in the piu animato and also including the fact that liebestraume is meant to be a very emotional piece, so the musicality of it is extremely important which makes it harder to concentrate on. regardless, im trying not to draw this out into an argument, just trying to point out what i meant. anyways, i think ive decided on that fugue and tchaikovskys concerto 1 | ||
Empyrean
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 Honestly. Anyway, that's one of my favorite fugues ever. Ever! >_>...and the Prelude's pleasant as well. As for the Tchaikovsky concerto, I've never actually played it myself, so I can't say how it might turn out, but it shouldn't be that bad. Still, if you'd give a more or less comprehensive list of what you've played, it'd be a lot easier to suggest some pieces that you might enjoy learning that you might not otherwise have played. Have you also been consulting your teacher about this? | ||
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bluemanrocks
United States304 Posts
my real working pieces include in no particular order (may be missing some): winter winds etude oceans etude liebestraume rach's preludes in g/c minor (learned these this past summer; heard them and instantly loved them. gotta say, rach has a weird 'interpretation' of his own music, if it can be called that). also working on scriabin etude op. 8 no. 12 but put that down for a little when i picked up winter winds a handful of chopins nocturnes because i always loved them learned beethoven's pathetique (saw someone just suggest this =P) revolutionary etude, and started fantasie impromptu but got bored i know im missing bach, hence my choice of the fugue. im to anything though, i just love music. also i learned billy joel's complete works =P love billy joel with a passion and parts of the tchaik are crazy, but maybe theyre not, theres a lot of stuff that seems one way but isnt once you get into it, as im sure you know. what kind of stuff do you play/are you playing? thanks for your help btw! | ||
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Empyrean
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So yeah, I'm assuming you've looked at all the "popular" pieces, so I'll end up recommending things you've probably never considered but are still very important pieces in the piano canon. I'd get some pieces that show more depth and a more subtle difficulty to learn. Maybe something that's difficult but in different ways you're used to (and hell, lots of pieces like this are pretty technically demanding as well). Try Chopin's fourth ballade? You won't be able to perfect it very easily. Some other pieces that people don't play very often but are very beautiful in their own ways uhh....Chopin's third impromptu (you seem to like Chopin so I'm giving some suggestions). Chopin's sixth etude is one of my favorites (but no one really likes it. You might not). For something pretty technically challenging, try his eighteenth etude. It's the hardest out of all of them in my opinion. Outside of Chopin, uh...it's very difficult to play Mozart stylistically correct and gracefully, even though you might assume it's simple based on the technical difficulty of his pieces. I like Beethoven's fifteenth and twenty-sixth sonatas as well. Try some Bach partitas? Hmm...you could try random Brahms, though I don't like his piano stuff very much. Prokofiev wrote a bunch of great pieces such as his sonatas and some of his more programmatic work. The third movement to his third piano concerto is a bitch to play but lots of fun. It should be more than a challenge if you ever attempt it. EDIT: Try and figure out the finguring to the "arpeggiated" seconds passages near the end by yourself XD...if you ever see the sheet music to it you'll know what I mean. As for what I've played, I quit piano at the end of high school haha. Right now I just do random movie music/pop music/etc. that I like, so yeah, that's my current piano experience. In the past, I've played staples like Chopin (ballades, etudes, nocturnes and a scherzo, etc.), Beethoven Sonatas, Bach pieces from WTCs, etc. I haven't played many concertos. I've done the romantic staples of Grieg/Schumann, Chopin 2, Rach 2, but I did get some prizes from concerto competitions (Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra being the most well known one) as well as random state/national ones. Also did some other concertos for fun like Bach d minor, Brandenberg no. 5 on a cembalo hahaha, etc. I've never not placed in local competitions so I'm not going to bother trying to count them. I've also done a lot of Rachmaninoff, Debussy, other composers, etc. EDIT: Oh, since you like Liszt so much, something you might like to try would be Les Jeux d'Eaux à la Villa d'Este from his third year of pilgrimage. It's more technically demanding than any of the pieces you listed. | ||
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