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Handel, Keyboard Suite No. 13 in Bb Maj. (the whole thing)
Chandler, "Consolation"
Bach, "Solo per il Cembalo" from LNAMB
Davis/Akst, "First, Last and Always (I Love You): Ballad Fox Trot (1923)
Kahn/Donaldson, "Beside a Babbling Brook" (Song), (1923)
Egan/Whiting, "The Japanese Sandman" (1920)

today, anyway...

--Andy

Brahms Sonata for Piano and Violin in G major
Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 4 in A minor

Chopin Fantasie in F minor
Kutnowski Tango Etudes
Balakirev Islamey

Which Rachmaninoff Etude tableaux?? The op.33 one (which is either the short E flat minor or the E flat major march), or the A minor op.39 one? I don't understand the appeal of the A minor etude tableau, I think it seems to mostly turn out as a bad showpiece.

As for me, I'm trying to finish up learning the third movement of Rach 2, and then start polishing the whole concerto. I'm also sorta working through the Tombeau. The Vine sonata and the Chopin ballade aren't getting as much attention, though I've performed the Chopin before.

Oh, sorry. It's opus 33 E flat major. (I've also been messing with Op 33 #4 because I like it. I may prepare it as a present for my teacher.) And I forgot, in a little over a week a friend and I are performing the Andante from Mozart's sonata for 2 pianos K448.

The D minor is fantastic!! It's extremely hard to voice though. It's my favourite of the bunch, aside from the other D minor in op.39.

I've been practicing Liszt's 2nd Legend (which my ignorant self choose to learn instead of the Beethoven 4th Concerto. Regrets now but oh well. :P), man I really need to strengthen and discipline my left hand and Schubert A minor Sonata from the op.143 I think and entitled D784, perhaps my favorite Schubert sonata I have ever encountered.

Granados: Los Requiebros

And a pile of ensemble stuff about a metre high - brass, string, wind, vocal. Some pretty straightforward pieces, others very far from being so.

I've been struggling with this one myself. That inner melody that pokes out around bars 11-12 and (I think) 32-33 is giving me quite a bit of grief. Any suggestions on how to practice this?

There is a youtube video by, I think, Debrucey where he does a nice job of bringing this part out.

I'm almost ready to go on my jazz/rock/improvisation-themed recital program for next year:

Radiohead/O'Reily: Karma Police, Subterranean Homesick Alien, and Let Down
Kapustin: Variations, op. 41
Miguel del Aguila/Kinsella: Conga Line in heck
Bach: Toccata in c minor, BWV 911
Rzewski: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
David Cutler: Superpower (hilarious piece!)

The Bach, Radiohead, and Cutler are good to go. Rzewski will take some reviving, and I've just got to learn the last variation of the Kapustin. I might sub out my transcription of Conga Line in heck for Vine's First Piano Sonata (a golden oldie for me) because I'm not sure if I can play it or not.

An excerpt:

Pretty much done with Ondine and Scarlatti K. 531

Working on:

Ravel's Sonatine
Scarlatti K. 239 and K. 517 (that one is a bit much for me though)
Chopin's Military Polonaise and Nocturne in Eb (never learned it, so I figured I'd get it in)

Barely working on:
Moleiro - Joropo
Lecuona - Gitanerias

If you haven't heard the last two pieces:
Joropo
Gitanerias

Karn Evil 9 - Emerson Lake, and Palmer
Toccata - Prokofiev
Wedding day at troll-whatever - Grieg
Land of Confusion - Genesis

Mozart's 21st Concerto Mov. 3
The Entertainer (arranged and adapted by Gunther Schuller)
Arranging hymns

I'm confused about the del Aguila - is that the same piece (or something close to the same piece) that started life as solo piano piece by him simply called "Conga"?

Yeah, that's it. The solo piano piece is pretty sparse, so I'm basically fleshing it out based on the orchestral score.

Very interesting. Have you done any other transcriptions?

Cool! Reminds me somehow of Busoni doing a transcription of the orchestral Mephisto Waltz. It's nice to see some interest in del Aguila - his 2nd piano sonata is a great fun, too.

a quick review of Bach/Liszt fantasy and fugue in g, Szymanovsky op.4 and Reger op.134, thought is would be a walk-over, it wasn't..

All 3 movements?....that's so cool.....


On the jazz side: Duke Ellington's Caravan & Jaco Pastorius's Liberty City.

Otherwise yesterday, it's all final movements of:

Schubert's Sonata, D959, Mozart's Sonata K310, & Schoenberg's 3 piano pieces, Op 11 (just started - it's been roughly 30 years since I touched it. I figure that I'd do the last - hardest - piece first.....Help......)

No, the rock stuff is for my band, so it will be the 2nd half of the first movement (the part that got radio airplay). I already know the second movement and part of the third but won't be playing it in front of people.

I am stuck on that Arabesque.. it really is just gorgeous and i can already play it pretty well... might as well get it performance ready just in case.

Always working on the Goldbergs.

A couple Bach/Lizst prelude and fugue transcriptions.. these are great pieces.. particularly the A minor and the E minor,

Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.. i am trying to teach the teenagers to sing.

Prelude 14, Book 2 WTC.. i just love this piece.. dreamy yet hard.