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I'll contribute a slow but beautiful etude..

Scriabin- Etude in C sharp minor op. 2

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can we play more than 1 piece?

sure

Hi All, am new here but would contribute a Chopin Etude or two if they are included in the program.

As the whole E-cital concept is new and unknown to the Pianist Corner, perhaps the first post in this thread should be edited to include more specific details about the event. What? When? How? Where? Why?

In that case, and if we really will have a few months, I'll submit all of Alkan's Symphony for Solo Piano. By then I should have a pretty good live recital recording of it.

I'll do Liszt's Transcendental Etude No. 3, "Paysage".

Does the piece absolutely have to be learned 'from scratch'? If so, scratch my Liszt off your list.

If it's July 31, 2009 or later, I think I can do Paganini/Liszt A-minor (theme and variations) Etude No 6.

I'd love to join you guys/gals. I'm still trying to decide what to select.

As an enticing method. Perhaps we could post a list of what is considered a Concert Etude. Maybe some of the readers will see an etude they have studied but are intimidated by the "Concert" nomenclature.

A concert etude is any etude meant for performance. Examples include etudes by Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Lyapunov, Bartok, Prokofiev, etc...

Things that wouldn't be acceptable are things like Hanon exercises, Brahms exercises, etc...

It may also be helpful to define etude as what it's not. It's not a sonata, suite, dance, or character piece.

Some variation sets (Brahms' Paganini and Beethoven c minor for example) are occasionally cited as being etude-like, so those may be fair game as well.

Since this is our project, we can of course define its scope any way we wish. I'd personally like to stick with things that contain "etude" in the title.

I'm beginning to learn Dohnanyi's Concert Etude in B flat minor. It is a truly beautiful and virtuosic piece, and if I learn it in time, I would like to post a recording.

I'm in, assuming this goes forward, with Henselt's Op. 2 No. 6 ("Si oiseau j'étais").

Steven

i think i'll personally play a collection of bortkiewicz etudes, or one of lyapunov's trancendental etudes

P.S. i have edited my origional post to include more information

Zac

Since I'm interested, but not comfortable right now with committing, the dates I'd be interested in knowing are the last possible dates for choosing an etude and the submission date - they might be the same date, I guess. Maybe early July?

And are duplicates of what others are playing okay or not? Probably not, but it wouldn't hurt to decide and state that right away so there's not some collision further down the road.

Liszt - Transcendental Etude #8 in C minor - "Wilde Jagd"

I doubt that it'll sound that great though.

I'm not making the rules, but I would think there would be only one person performing any particular etude.

I'd like to try for Liszt Transcendental No. 5 - Feux Follets. I believe I can have it relatively presentable in 9 months (of course not at Cziffra/Richter/Kissin speeds . I have some bad habits I want to address with this etude and having the deadline is a great motivator.

i would say approx. the 20th of July, allowing 10-15 days to organise the recordings onto the website, as well as catering for anyone who is late (you know there is always 1)

also, i think the best thing to do is to only have 1 person playing any particular piece

Zac

This event is way over my head from a participation point of view, but as a listener, I think it'd be really interesting to hear more then one person play the same piece...

I do understand this point of view, as it would enrich the content and enhance the experience for a listener.

The problem, though, from a participant's perspective is that it would make the event feel like a competition. Even if we shouldn't think of it in that way (and despite assurances that it won't be viewed in that way), comparisons would be unavoidable.

I think it's a bad idea, therefore, for the same reason it's been ruled against in the Chopin recitals to date in the ABF.

Steven