La_Chopiniste_
Jan 31 2006, 06:45 PM
Hey everyone! how are you all doing?
I think this question was posted before, but i think there's no harm in reasking it!
As for me , besides grade 6 pieces which are :
A ) corant
B ) Valse Poetico
C ) prayer of the Matador
i'm working on these:
Concerto pour une jeune fille -
Richard Clayderman Valse in Ab "L'adieu" -
Chopin The case of Mr. Ahmad -
Omar Khairat (Egyptian composer)
So...What about you?
crazy_purple_piano_freak
Jan 31 2006, 06:52 PM
Can't you just ad it on the the last thread posted, as an update?
I'm STILL doing exam pieces...
but also random easy pretty pieces:
Seseragi - Yukie Nishimura
Labarinth of Eden and Ashi.taka and San - Joe Hisaishi
Some other stuff as well, but can't remember.
PianoPlayerScottie1901
Jan 31 2006, 07:55 PM
Hey, I'm doing Garde VI too
But im playing:
1) Andante
2) Einsamer Wandere
3) Prayer of the Matador
So we play the same last piece

And apart from them I'm learning:
Rachmaninoff - Prélude in C# Minor
Chopin - Nocturne in E Minor (Op 73 No1) and in C Minor (Op 48 No 1)
Sorry about the random post just thought id speak up
Oddball
Jan 31 2006, 08:01 PM
I am working on the grade 6 book, playing Corant, Prelude in B minor and feelin' good.
Whoa PPS, they're hard pieces for someone looking at grade 6
IrisH - LoonY
Jan 31 2006, 08:05 PM
The Rachmaninov if alright if you can read thick chords and if you can play chords quite well

The Chopin

That's suicide!
I'm doing
Debussy - Sarabande from Pour le Piano
Sinding - Rustle of Spring
Schubert - Impromptu No.4 in A flat Op.90
Might start the Finale to Schumann's Etudes Symphoniques
Car Expert
Jan 31 2006, 08:14 PM
I'm working on exam pieces:
- Sonatina in Bb
- Song
- Equivoque No.8
Car Expert
Lixandreth
Jan 31 2006, 08:44 PM
Just my grade V pieces at the minute. Have realised that my exam is in March and I'm really unpreprared.

Panicking just a bit, even though I know I have over a month until the exam.
JohnS
Jan 31 2006, 09:00 PM
I've just ordered a I've got rhythm transcription and a 6 variations on that theme. I like playing Gershwin - he's fun!
Fen
Jan 31 2006, 10:10 PM
Ireland's "Amberley Wild Brooks" - which is killing me
and Schubert's piano sonata 960.
sidelines of Ravel's "Sonatine" and bits 'o Beethoven.
Ursie
Jan 31 2006, 10:58 PM
QUOTE(Fen @ Jan 31 2006, 10:10 PM)

Ireland's "Amberley Wild Brooks" - which is killing me
and Schubert's piano sonata 960.
sidelines of Ravel's "Sonatine" and bits 'o Beethoven.
I'm working on Ravel's Sonatine (for the Dip) - the last movement at the moment

I think I'll get there in the end - shame it's got to go about double the speed I'm playing at the moment

What 'bits 'o Beethoven' are you playing?
Frederic Chopin
Feb 1 2006, 12:54 AM
Polishing up Rachmaninoff's Prelude in G minor Op 23 No 5 and revisiting his Concerto No 2 in C minor (1st movement). Playing around with Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No 2...
Oddball
Feb 1 2006, 08:49 AM
QUOTE(Frederic Chopin @ Feb 1 2006, 12:54 AM)

Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No 2...

Hee hee that piece makes me chuckle...so funny!!
I'm learning the accompaniments for:
Gia Sole Dal Gange
I attempt from Love's Sickness to fly
Far Away from the Home I love
Where the bee sucks
Caro Mio Ben
and Vaccai lessons 3 and 4a)
For my own pleasure I'm working on Bach Prelude and Fugue in c minor (no 2 from the 48)
As a singing teacher I spend most of time learning Piano accompaniments and sight reading!
andante_in_c
Feb 1 2006, 01:31 PM
I'm mainly working on my pieces for the Egham concert: the Ravel Prelude, and the Seconda part of Debussy's En Bateau.
I'm still working through the Czerny 8-bar exercises, and I'm starting to look at a Mozart Sonata, K. 283.
Andy-piano-flute
Feb 1 2006, 01:46 PM
QUOTE(andante_in_c @ Feb 1 2006, 01:31 PM)

I'm mainly working on my pieces for the Egham concert: ....... and the Seconda part of Debussy's En Bateau.
Same here .... Primo part of En Bateau, & a piano accompaniment. Grade 7 pieces - Presto, Esquisse & Chanson d'escarpolette. I started the Ravel from list C but it wasn't doing my right arm much good - so I've had to stop practising it

. I really liked playing it.
The Old Lady
Feb 1 2006, 07:01 PM
In The Pink, and Giga for grade one. Plus simple scales.
Haven't chosen the other piece yet.
Beverley.
SoNaTa6644
Feb 3 2006, 05:16 AM
mozart sonata no. 8 K310
lizst transcendental etude : wild hunt
luke43
Feb 3 2006, 08:48 AM
At the moment I am working on these:
1) Bach - Toccata no.5 in E Minor BWV 914
2) Faure - Barcarolle in A Minor No.1 Op.26
3) Shostakovich - Preludes 3 & 11 from 24 Preludes Op.34
4) Gershwin - Man I Love & I Got Rhythm
I also play a lot of Gershwin such as the transcriptions made from his radio recordings and his piano rolls and also his songbook for piano known as Gershwin at the Keyboard as I really like his music.
I also play some Beethoven, the Waldstein piano sonata which I am working on. I play a lot of jazz in my free time such as Cole Porter and more traditional swing type jazz such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, etc I like the freedom in jazz where you can improvise. I do play some film themes and contemporary modern pieces. In the past I have played a bit of Chopin but now I am starting to learn more of his pieces.
musicbox
Feb 4 2006, 10:02 AM
A version of Memory, Andrew Lloyd Webber and some finger studies.
Choddy
Feb 4 2006, 02:17 PM
QUOTE(IrisH - LoonY @ Jan 31 2006, 08:05 PM)

The Chopin

That's suicide!

Not if you're good...
I'm doing Mozarts C Major Sonata, Bach's Prelude and Fugue in A Minor and Debussy's Arabesque Number 1 for Grade 8, but also love working through the John Field book of 18 Nocturnes... he's amazing!!
neil.clarinet
Feb 4 2006, 04:05 PM
Various Bach Invention/Sinfonias/Preludes-Fugues
Beethoven Sonata in C Minor op10 no.1
a Chopin Polonaise, and some Mozart
crazy_purple_piano_freak
Feb 4 2006, 05:44 PM
QUOTE(Choddy @ Feb 4 2006, 02:17 PM)

I'm doing Mozarts C Major Sonata, Bach's Prelude and Fugue in A Minor and Debussy's Arabesque Number 1 for Grade 8, but also love working through the John Field book of 18 Nocturnes... he's amazing!!

Woo go you Nick!

Arabesque is amazing, and I love the prelude and fugue!
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