Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Advanced Baroque or early Romantic piano solos?

I'm trying to build a repertoire for the upcoming school year. I'm
looking to have four or five pieces.

I've already started to study the first movement of Scriabin's second
piano sonata and the first movement of the Haydn Piano Sonata 31 Hob.
XVI: 46, if that gives you any idea where I'm at, skill-wise. I'm
thinking about working on Chopin's Ocean Etude, but I'm not sure
because I want to have these pieces mostly finished by September so
that I can study them during school, and I'm not confident that I'll
be able to finish that piece by then.

Can you give me a couple of your favorites from the Baroque period?
More specifically, I would prefer some J.S.Bach, but you don't have to
limit yourself to that. (Please don't say Inventions, Preludes and
Fugues, or Italian Concerto.) I would also love some Romantic
suggestions. Chopin is always a winner, but maybe you could give me
some Liszt or Tchaikovsky?

Please keep in mind I'm not a prodigy... advanced, but by no means a
virtuoso. I want challenging pieces, but I do not want impossible
pieces.

Goodness, I'm picky. Thanks, guys.

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