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.....My "REALLY" contemporary program..... I've been working heavily on these over this past year, among others written over the past 20 years or so -- but this is the final cut!.... Didn't I see Derek Bermel's Turning on a previous list? Did that one not make the final cut due to length? (Just curious. I just picked up the score a couple days ago - have yet to dig in.)
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Bach-Busoni Chaconne.  that's hard enough!
accompanist/organist.. a non-MTNA teacher to a few
love and peace, Õun (apple in Estonian)
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Yes, you did Gerard12 -- and yes, the "problem" really was length -- but it is an excellent introduction, if you will, to several new "musics", and well worth working on. I particularly like the "Kowie at Dawn" segment, which (as Bermel indicates) is a pianistic evocation of various African percussion instruments. Just an incidental anecdote: Bermel wrote the work for Christopher Taylor in 1996, and Taylor has taught here at the Univ of Wisc Madison for several years now. He holds one free recital per year, and last year he performed "Turning", along with a couple of other contemporary selections. That guy can truly play anything and everything, and has proved it over the years!
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Bach BWV 849  (WTC book1 no.4 C# minor) You have to play this piece to appreciate Bach's greatness. Been 1 week since I started the fugue, have 2 pages down pretty solid, last/next 2 pages sorta can play yay.
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Finishing up the Bartok Sonata and some other stuff for comps. Fun piece to play. 
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Chopin Op.25/9
Faure Op.17/3
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Current projects -
Bartok: Etudes op. 18 - have played the 2nd and just memorized the other too, but they're frightening to play and almost impossible for me to get up to tempo!
Debussy: Etudes, book 1 - Performing all of these later this fall in a Debussy festival, they keep presenting new and fascinating challenges to me. Pieces worth studying, for sure!
Beethoven - Hammerklavier, once again. The fugue is a pain in the butt every time I pick it up - some spots just don't have ANY plausible/comfortable solutions regarding fingerings and so on.
Trying to decide what else to focus on this fall, I have hardly ever looked at the Brahms concerti and would love to work on one of them...
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Roughly in descending order of "doneness":
Haydn Sonata Hob. XVI:23
Mendelssohn Songs Without Words: Nos. 25, 33 and 34
Brahms Op. 118, Nos. 2 and 3
Chopin Op. 27 No 2
I'd rather be practicing  Kawai K-3, Roland FP-7F Now: Brahms Op. 118, Bach French Suite #5
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Restarting lessons at age 54, after 20 or so years of not having an acoustic instrument. My teacher assigned
Brahms, Op. 76, #1 (scares me)
Prokofiev, Op.12, #3 (Rigaudon)
Bach French Suite #2, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande.
exciting and scary, yes.
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Mompou, Cancion y Danza #6
some Chopin, some Bach (always), Debussy
My beliefs are only that unless I can prove them.
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Enjoy your lessons, Woodog!
Working on:
Chopin Nocturne in E minor, Op. 72 no. 1
Chopin Nocturne in C# Minor (Posthumous)
Beethoven Op. 13 (Pathetique) Adagio Cantabile
Beethoven Sonata in F Minor Op. 2 No. 1
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Polishing my pieces for my Diploma!!
Bach Partita#1 Sinfonia
Beethoven Sonata Op2 no1 (dear lord I despise making the melody in double forths hear-able and that 4th movement just doesn't want to sound melodic)
Brahms Intermezzo from Ballades Op10
Debussy Prelude Book 2 Broulliards
Messiaen's Regard de l'etoile (just trying to make it more scary)
HSC pieces:
Shostakovich Piano Concerto op 102. movement 1
Chopin Op10 No1
Debussy Broulliards Preludes Bk1
Kats-Chernin Russian Rag
Messiaen Regard d'letoile
Mozart Sonata for 2 pianos D major
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prelude and fugue on a theme of Ponce.. it is fantastic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehDuUNAGZsw especially the fugue.. pretty hard too. ok - I can't play the fugue no way, I can hardly play the prelude, but i can work on it and pretend I am a concert pianist. pic coming soon. Apple, I play a lot of Ponce, and his "Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Handel" is one of my favorites. I like Jorge Federico Osorio's performance, on his Balada Mexicana CD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI8upuGf8U4And how about his Estudio de concierto VIII Preludio Galante: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64qKxvVh2WkPM me if you want a copy of the extremely rare score. Mel
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This week's project: tightening up Beethoven 3rd and Stravinsky's Concerto for Piano and Winds. First Jeffrey Jones, and now you - the Stravinsky is climbing the charts!! I love it that one of my very favorite underplayed concertos is getting some attention.
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For an exam& 2 competitions back in Canada from May-June 2013:
Bach Toccata in c minor BWV 911,Mozart Sonata in c minor K.457, Mozart Piano Concerto in C major K.503, Liszt Transcendental Etude no.3 'Paysage' and Chopin Etudes op.10 nos.2&4
for technique/ to build my rep:
Hanon The Virtuoso Pianist Part 3, Bach Italian Concerto 3rd mvt and going to start Mendelssohn's Variations Seriesus op.54
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Mastering:Chopin Etudes op.10 nos.8&12 and op.25 no.1, Chopin Scherzo no.4 in E major op.54, Mozart Sonata in B flat major K.333& Khachaturian Toccata
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Bumping this fun thread. Yesterday, I tried to impersonate Marc-Andre Hamelin/Stephen Hough. I found my project over the summer for my university's concerto competition https://www.box.com/s/9f1urgdvaq3a5ekkri1i
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A Chopin scherzo and a Beethoven sonata.
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Learning:
Nielsen suite op. 45
Dvorak Piano quintet
songs by Strauss and Szymanowski
Re-learning:
Chopin op 10 nr 8-10, 3rd scherzo
Schumann Humoreske
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Just started: Chopin Preludes, Beethoven 31/1, Sciarrino Anamorfosi and other uncommonly heard "water" pieces. Continuing work on Rach 3 for upcoming concerto competition.
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Mendelssohn Op 7 No. 6 "Sehnsuchtig"
Bach "Ich Ruf' zu Dir" -for both piano and organ.
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