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hey everyone, ive got a summer concert concert coming up in early july for my school and i am going to play something. I have narrowed my choices down to a few chopin preludes but im not sure which one an audience would be more impressed by and i was wondering if you could help me choose.
1.Prelude in A major op 28 no 7.
2.Prelude in e minor op 38 no 4,
3.Prelude in C minor op 28 no 20
4.Prelude in db major'Raindrop'

As you can tell they are all quite easy apart from in my opinion the raindrop but im not that advanced yet! Thanks!

Do you mean impressed technically or musically or both?

sorry i should have mentioned that, i meant both.

If you can't do the "Raindrop," then do all three of the others, and perform the E minor.

i have looked at the raindrop and i believe i could manage it but getting it learnt to a good standard by july may be pushing it.

Well, it's not as difficult as, say, No. 16 or 17.

Let me suggest that you learn the F# major, No. 13. The key signature might give you some problems at first, but for my money, it's the most beautiful and fulfilling of the Preludes, and it's not as difficult as the "Raindrop."

Why not the E Major?

I don't see why you would want your choice to reflect which piece would most "impress" the audience? Why not play the piece you like and play best?

That said, why would you have the A major Prelude on your list? It's extremely short (around 40 seconds), light and reflective. Would that "impress"? Similarly, the C minor (two minutes, maximum) and the E minor (less than two minutes) are short and they are contemplative in nature, not necessarily pieces that would impress a school audience.

Regards,

I hate offering an answer that doesn't really answer the question, but I agree with what others have implied: it's not a great list of choices for your intended purpose.

Time is tight for an event in early July. I don't know which one(s) of those pieces is most likely to 'impress' your audience -- but the most practical matter is that you need to play it well, and from memory. (That rules out 'Raindrop', I believe.)

well any other suggestions from anyone would be very helpful, thanks!

What "other suggestions"? You've given us four choices; we've commented on them.

Regards,

anything that would impress an audience and that would i would be able to learn by july, i thought i had already specified this.

Well, yes, one could make lots of suggestions, but your narrowed choice suggests a somewhat limited technique, otherwise, I assume, you would have listed more impressive pieces, since "impressive" seems to be the operative word here. Your choices, however, seem to really limit any other choices that one might suggest. When you said you had narrowed it down to four Chopin Preludes and that you wanted to impress your audience, I would think that most readers would assume that these are the most "impressive" pieces in your repertoire.

Now you want other suggestions of impressive pieces. How do we know what you can master and how do we know how long it will take you to learn an "impressive" piece by July when you said that the Prelude Op 28 No 15 (Raindrop) is beyond your current abilities to learn by July?

Have you thought of asking your teacher, if you have one, or a friend or acquaintance who knows your capabilities? A bit of a conundrum for members here, I would say.

Regards,

well the time limit is the most important thing hear, none of the preludes i have mentioned are very difficult but in the short space of time i have its all i could think of, my teacher has wanted me to start doing grades and has put me in for grade 4 to begin with, (this is with LCM board), although i would be able to mange anything grade 5, possibly 6.

CPE Bach's Sofelleggio is very, very easy and sounds "impressive". It could make a nice pair with the beautiful A Major Chopin prelude (which is so easy it could probably be learned in a matter of minutes).

Good suggestion !!

Good suggestion, yes, but I shudder at calling those pieces easy. The older and better I get (and compared to many on this forum, I am not very "old" or very "good"), the more I realize there is to music, and it's difficult to make quality sounding music no matter which piece of music it is!