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What are you practicing on the piano for the time?
Im trying to get the Contrapunctus No.1 from Bach to sound good.
What about you guys?
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Orlando Gibbons The Lord of Salisbury and his Pavin
William Byrd Pavana Lachrymae
William Byrd Pavan to the Earl of Salisbury
William Byrd Lord Willobies Welcome Home
Anonymous My lady Careys Dompe
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Stuff for a competition I'm accompanying in January:
Yoshimatsu - Fuzzy Bird Sonata
Swerts - Kotekan
Borne - Fantasy on Themes from Carmen
A recital with a flutist at the end of January:
Piston - Sonata
Taffanel - Andante Pastoral et Scherzettino
Schumann - Op. 94 Romances
Recitals with a Saxophonist in January and February (in St. Louis, Wisconsin, and Minneapolis if anyone's interested in hearing us!)
Schmitt - Legende
Husa - Elegie et Rondeau
Pascal - Sonatine
Boutry - Divirtimento
Faure - Fantasie
Prokofiev - Five Melodies
Luckily, this is all repertoire I've played before. The only new piece is the Taffanel, and it's not too difficult. But I'll be a busy boy for the next few weeks!
"If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him." (John Holt) www.pianoped.comwww.youtube.com/user/UIPianoPed
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Rzewski, "Down by the Riverside."
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"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do so with all thy might." Ecclesiastes 9:10
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I've been practicing the Christmas hymns from the Hymn Book of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It's pretty easy to sight-read and I love being able to have the spirit of Christmas with me!
Medical Products... it may be what I do, but playing the piano is what I love <3
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Still polishing Ravel's Ondine, and I've started Deubssy's Ondine for fun! (Maybe I'll do an all-water themed program one day!).
Also playing with Chopin's Barcarolle and the Moonlight Sonata.
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Same old thing: Beethoven Opus 53, Rondo.
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Deborah
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Beethoven Op. 13 2nd movement
Rachmaninoff Sonata 1 1st movement
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Beethoven Op. 13 2nd movement
Rachmaninoff Sonata 1 1st movement OSK, I laughed when I read your signature line. A grand obsession indeed! Her Mozart was wonderful.
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Deborah
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This week most of my time is being spent on Bach's C major Fugue from Book I and Brahms' Intermezzo Op. 118 no. 6.
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Brahms: Rhapsody in B minor, Op 79, No 1
- Rhapsody in G minor, Op 79, No 2 (now memorized)
Debussy : Reflets dans l'eau (now memorized)
Haydn : Sonata in F major, Hob XVI:23
Chopin : Polonaise in c minor, Op 40, No 2
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Brahms: Rhapsody in B minor, Op 79, No 1
- Rhapsody in G minor, Op 79, No 2 (now memorized)
Debussy : Reflets dans l'eau (now memorized)
Haydn : Sonata in F major, Hob XVI:23
Chopin : Polonaise in c minor, Op 40, No 2 I hope you will play the Rhapsody next summer! I can't wait to hear you.
Best regards,
Deborah
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Hardly anything! Packing to leave for Cali and then on the road... thank goodness most of the hotels have pianos, but in the historic Southwest, most of the pianos are in historic Southwest conditions ='[ In the long car ride, I'm doing finger exercises on hardcover books, doing mental practice of a few different kinds, and putting in fingerings in my Mozart concerto, a variety of Chopin pieces, and beginning to muster the strength of will to practice Rachmaninoff when I have some real time at the instrument! It's great being in the car for so long, though: tons of listening to random things, reading about the history of avant-garde music (  ), some theory and composition... all with the desert flashing by. It's lovely!
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Schubert, D. 664, 3rd movement
Muczynski, Desperate Measures/Paganini Variations
Chopin, Scherzo No. 2, Op. 25, 9 & 12
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Chopin, op.25/1.
Shostakovitch, Eb major prelude and fugue from op.87.
Each is more beautiful than the other.
-J
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John Harbison Sonata No 2
Paul Schoenfield 3 Intermezzi
William Bolcom 9 New Bagatelles
These are all pieces written after 2000. I'm trying to put together an entire program of pieces written since 2000.
Other candidates:
Fred Hersch 24 Variations on "Because All Men are Brothers"
Libby Larsen Mephisto Rag
Judith Lang Zaimont Hitchin'
Lowell Liebermann Nocturne No 8
Michael Torke Blue Pacific
Dan Welcher Falling Fifths (Prelude for Dani)
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On the piano :
Tchaikovsky - Old French Song, op39
Schumann - Melodie, op 68
Bach - Invention n°1 BWV 772 and I'll hopefully begin to work on his Sinfonia n°9 BWV 795 soon, voice per voice first.
And those pieces give me plenty of work and are good workout for me now (thumb passage, tone, shadings, hand position, relaxation) q:
I console myself working on Takemitsu, Bach, Henze and Sor on the guitar.
Well, not sure I really console myself.
I'm so jealous of all of you ! Piano has such a wonderful repertoire.
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All the things in my signature except that I haven't really started the Beethoven yet and I'm thinking about switching the Chopin concerto to the Beethoven 4.
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Brahms 118 complete, 76/1
Beethoven 109, 90
Medtner Reminiscenza sonata
Rachmaninoff 23/6, 23/10, 39/1
Debussy violin sonata
Chopin f- concerto
I was hoping to have a 3 day break, but I can't...
"The eyes can mislead, the smile can lie, but the shoes always tell the truth."
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All the things in my signature except that I haven't really started the Beethoven yet and I'm thinking about switching the Chopin concerto to the Beethoven 4. Wow, nice choice! Lots of Ludwig in your future, it seems.
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Beethoven op. 53
Wagner-Liszt "Isolde's Liebestod", from Tristan und Isolde
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