what are you all working on? or in your reportoire?

im currently working on:

chopin polonaise c minor op40 no.2
haydn Eb major sonata no.49
bach a minor prelude & fugue Well tempered klavier book 2
Clementi gradus ad parnassum study no.13
Liszt consolation no2



not the most interesting repertoire!!

Well Chopin polonaise certainly isn't boring, at least not the way you play it!

I am 'learning' at the moment:
Scriabin - Study in F sharp minor, op 17 preludes
Bach - 3 of the 2-part inventions (C minor, F minor, Bb)
Chopin - 3 preludes (D, E, F minor)
Debussy - 2 preludes, Soiree dans Grenade
Brahms - Rhapsody in G minor
Haydn - Sonata in A (No. 26 i think)
Various Cramer and Czerny Op. 740 studies (evil mr. beard said i should!)

Also keeping some old stuff in my fingers for future competitions/performances.

Got your date yet for grade 8?

I am currently learning:


- Grade 3 Exam Pieces

• A3: Sonatina in Bb
• B1: Song
• C3: Equivoque No.8

- Disco Drive (jazz piece)

Car Expert

All my exam pieces
Nuvole Bianche-Einaudi
Dolphin Ocean-HeeFoo
And I've started looking at Aeris Lives from Final Fantasy but I don't think that my hands are big enough. So I've started doing inversions of chords to see what sounds best.
Plus loads of Hisaishi stuff.

Currently working on the grade 6 exam syllabus and I've just started with A3 - Allegro by Dussek (I think - don't have the book nearby me!).

NM

Grade 8 pieces:
JS Bach-Allemande
CPE Bach-Allegro Assai
Debussy-Arabesque 1

Hisaishi: The Rain (piano part) and 'Promise of the world' from Howl's Moving castle
Einaudi: Stella Del Mattino and La Nascita delle cos segrete
and various people's compostitions that i happen to have the sheet of: (lol that means YOU Lou)

I've recently bought the Henle Urtext of Brahms' complete Variations for piano (two hands). So much marvellous music in there... I know a lot of pianists really don't like Brahms' piano writing, but it I like it a lot, more than most other piano composers in fact. My favourite at present is the Variations on an Original Theme, Op.21 No.1, in D major.

Grade 7

A3 Mozart
B1 Gliere
C1 Johnny Megan

And some movements from Beethoven Sonatas volume 1.

its getting better now...its a lot better than it was in the summer when you heard it!!

nope havent got the date. probably do it in march.

Next friday i have a lesson with miyuki kato - olga and micheal are away!

Should be fun

And listen to the bearded doctor! he makes a lot of sense

Although he always hates my compositions

Oooh... how are you getting on with the Dussek Allegro? I suggest you don't listen to the ABRSM CD because it makes whatever speed you were playing at sound sluggishly slow. Sometimes I can play this piece, sometimes it just goes totally haywire... it'll get there though.

I'm also working on:

Vals Poetico - Granados
Prayer of the Matador - Dello Joio
Corant - Loeillet (not for the exam, just for fun)
Sonata K545 in C maj - Mozart
Andante in A - Bertini (v. easy, just for my GCSE performing)

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its getting better now...its a lot better than it was in the summer when you heard it!!

nope havent got the date. probably do it in march.

Next friday i have a lesson with miyuki kato - olga and micheal are away!

Should be fun

And listen to the bearded doctor! he makes a lot of sense

Although he always hates my compositions
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Hope you have a good lesson with Miyuki - i understand she's living near you now...? let me know how you get on.

Hope all goes well in march

yes she lives in the same town.

Should be fun. I have a school competition coming up - i need to win so i have the bragging rights over the sixth formers

About 150 accompaniments for own-choice classes in a music festival in Grimsby in three weeks time. Lucky me.

Yippppeeeeeee

Gosh, that's a lot! How do you get time to practice all of them?

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I play them at the rate of 20\30 a day, depending on how many need 'practising'.

An event like this highlights my ability to 'bluff and blagg'

Steve

Terra's Theme and Tifa's Theme from Final Fantasy VI and Final Fantasy VII Piano Collections respectively. I'll probably just fail when I get to learning the part of Tifa's theme with cross rhythms, but still, they're both pretty amazing pieces!

And Steve, !

I am working on the A1 Polonaise piece from the old grade 3 book and 2 studies for my lessons... For chilling out, I'm working on "Music of the night".

First 2 movements of a Clementi sonatina

Nobuo Uematsu is a legend! I played quite a few of his piano piece/arrangements for my A2 music recital, have you tried 'Eyes on me'?

I know! I think it was hearing Aeris' theme in the game that got me very interested in his music, and then hearing a high quality orchestrated version of it just made me obsessed! It was probably actually the overworld theme in Final Fantasy VII that made me realise how beautiful dissonant pieces can be.

I've had a quick look at the Piano Collections version of Eyes on Me, which I think was in 7/8 (I just remember the crotchet-crotchet-crotchet-quaver rhythm, but there might be more in a bar than that, I can't remember). I'll have another look at it later after I've finished my homework.

What pieces did you do for your A2 recital?

WOW!! Thanks people for getting me hooked on Final fantasy music too...it was hearing aeris lives and tina's theme that got me going!! I'll see if i can find eyes on me..not heard it yet.

Grade 5 pieces:

Scarlatti Sonata in A
Lyadov Bagatelle No 1
Villa Lobos Adeus Bella Morena

plus various organ pieces (including CH Trevor's 'Music for Manuals' series) which I play on a small portable keyboard using the pipe organ tone!

Same as me! Got a date for your exam yet? I'm still waiting to hear - hoping late November/early December.

Debussy arabesque no. 1, Brahms Intermezzo op.118 no. 2, & just revising Maple Leaf rag to play in teacher's xmas concert. (And some jazz Xmas carols.) After Xmas hope to get started on playing some pieces on the grade 7 syllabus

I've decided to do my exam next February....so I'll have a bit more time, as I'm too busy right now so I'd probably fail anyway!!

I'm working on the Loeillet Corant from the Grade 6 book, and the first 12 of Czerny's 8 bar studies.

I've just started looking at the Ravel Prelude, and I'm beginning to look at a duet which will remain under wraps for a bit as it's for the February concert. Andy-p-f have we decided who's doing which part?

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It's going good! I can play it well a little bit slower than the CD, I can play it the same speed as the CD but it generally goes wrong!!

I'm playing it in the County Music competition thing later this month.

NM

Im playing stuff from the micheal aaron book and the 2nd dozen a day! GO ME!

Man havent been here for a while, Uni exams are the thing of the devil lol. They keep u from doing fun stuff lol.

Am currently working on:
Mozart's Piano Concerto No.21
George Gershwin's Concerto in F

And in between just playing random jazz pieces from my fake books...

I have just started work on a new Bach Two Part Invention, no 13 and am working on Chopin's B Minor Prelude.

im currently working on:

1.prelude n fugue in c minor WTC, book1- Bach
2.sonata in B flat K570- Mozart
3.nocturne in E flat- Chopin
4.arabesque no 1- Debussy

I'm currently working on the following pieces:

Toccata in E Minor BWV 914 - Bach
Barracolle No 1 in A minor - Faure
Preludes 3 and 11 from 24 preludes Op.34

*Man I Love - Gershwin
*I Got Rhythm - Gershwin

*George Gershwin at the Keyboard especially arranged for piano by the composer himself.

I have to say I do play a lot of Gershwin so I would like to include this in my DipABRSM as it is a bit of me.

Good grief. People are working on such hard stuff...

I'm currently on the Polonaise from the green grade 3 book.

Scary isn't it, Helen?

I'm doing scales at the moment. I'm hoping to do grade four or five, hopefully five...and there's loads and loads of scales to learn.....the pieces are getting better.... I think

Yes

Working on the Grade 8 stuff, but I'm despairing a bit at the moment as I don't feel I'm getting anywhere. Pieces are -

Scarlatti - Sonata in D minor
Mozart - Sonata in C
Mayerl - Autumn Crocus
Mendelssohn - Songs without words No.12
Poulenc - Nocturne in C major - gorgeous, but a bit difficult ( a lot in fact !)

Oooh, the Mendelssohn one is pretty too. I have a whole book of them and am slowly working my way through

Is this for Grade 8? Is the Poulenc the last one on the C list (alternative?) I love it but didnt have the music so am doing arabesque instead...also love Autumn Crocus but cant play it as have small fingers.

Yes, they are for Grade 8 - hopefully I'll be ready before they change the syllabus. The Poulenc is gorgeous, but hard and the music cost a bomb so I feel obliged to do it ! The Mendelssohn is supposed to help the Crocus piece - all to do with this 'cantabile arm-weight' technique which I find very difficult.

*sigh* I dont think my fingers can 'grow' that much!! So when are you thinking of taking the exam?

im playing my peices for grade six - song without words, corant, and (the jazzy one - cant remember name!)
an also the peices in Le onde - the beast itself!!

I've barely touched the piano since the start of term However, I did hear a rather lovely piece today- Traeumerei? by Schumann- which has inspired a little. Has anyone got an idea of its difficultly? I'm still hovering at Grade 5/6 at the mo

Is it that feelin good thing/ I think my friend is doing the exact same pieces as you!!

I love Traumerei!! Not sure what level it is but you SHOULD be able to manage.

The jazzy one!! Is it Feelin' Good? I was gonna do that but I chose Prayer of the Matador instead. But that piece is still groovy! I'm trying to learn my grade 7 pieces right now and I'm also playing Innocent and Summer (by Joe Hisaishi).

For my Grade 6, I'm doing Allegro, Vals Poetico and Prayer of the Matador... but recently, I'm getting a bit tired of the first two. I've been looking at Corant and Einsamer Wanderer, and I like the latter two much more. I'm planning to take the exam at Easter... so it might be too late to change it now though....



Träumerei is beautiful. I still can't play it fully yet... I assume it's around G5/6 in difficulty.

You're doing the same pieces as I did, anakrron!

Just wondering, can you play all the octavy chords up to speed in Innocent? Coz I'm having trouble with them...

Which ones? The ones at the beginning are okay! I don't like the chordy bit where you have to jump down octaves and stuff but it's still a groovy piece! I haven't played Bella Notte for a while...I might play that randomly next time!

ooooh! Sorry Innocent is ok i think i was referring to Ash.itaka and San!! Ive given up on that for the time being...i cant seem to be able to learn anything higher than grade 3 right now...