Just out of idle interest...!

EDIT: Eek, that was meant to be a poll with the question "How many pieces did you play/sing for your exam?"

For ATCL, eight different songs.

For LTCL, five works. Two and a half song-cycles plus two other songs.

For FTCL, three so far - a song cycle, a big operatic recit and aria and another smaller aria. But I still have 10 - 11 minutes to find to complete the programme.....

Three different works, comprising a total of seven movements (DipABRSM clarinet)


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Am I allowed to be nosy and ask what you've chosen so far?

I'm looking at 8 or 9, what three languages did you use? I've got some German, some English, and probably something Italian, but the current syllabus is a bit short on Italian works, did you use Italian (I'd rather that than French), and if so was your piece suitable for a chap?

Britten - "Les Illuminations de Rimbaud"
Handel - "Se Pieta" from Giulio Cesare - better practise turning in both directions, Deborah, as it has a Dal Segno....
Hoiby - Ariel's vocalise from The Tempest.

I might take the Chamber option (one work allowed to be an ensemble) to do Adam's Bravura Variations...if I can find a flautist to help me out with it

Nice programme. DS turns are OK as long as someone has had the foresight to put some kind of marker at the Segno.

No idea where you'd find one of those

Used French, Italian, German and English for ATCL; Welsh, German and English for LTCL

details of my programmes for ATCL and LTCL are on http://www.forumconcert.co.uk/diplomas

In response to benjaminja's question: four for DipABRSM, with a total of 11 movements.

Thank you, that's very handy, I quite like the Vivaldi, but unfortunately its not really appropraite for a chap. Yesterday I printed off a load and had a sing through, and I just need to try and work out which ones I think are of diploma standard and then choose one of those.

Looking at your LTCL list, we had someone sing something about a telephone in a concert veyr high soprano thing with lots of runs, very showy piece, was it that?

For DipABRSM I played 3 pieces, totalling 7 movements.

LTCL-5 pieces, with a total of 9 movements.

To answer my own question (!), I played 5 for the Diploma (the fifth being a two-movement piece), but feel this was too many - I think my teacher tried to get me to cover lots of different styles etc. and as a result I don't think the programme was very coherent. I would prefer (in future, if applicable!) to play maybe two substantial pieces that contain sufficient stylistic variety for a varied programme - is that a known/accepted practice if it can be justified in the VV?

Sounds like it

ATCL four pieces - one a single movement, one a theme and three variations, one four sections, and one five movements.

Attempt at LTCL to follow, I hope this year five pieces - one in two movements, one a theme and four doubles, one in four sections, one a single continuous run with various shifts in tempo, and one fourteen fragments of sheer pretentious nonsense, of which I'm required to make some sort of sense .

I'm not going to attempt a fellowship - I think that's a glass ceiling too far, so hats off to those who do .

benjaminja - I think it is better to do as you did before, and have that range your teacher suggests -for one thing, you don't have to maintain your concentration over such a long period, for another, you spread the risk. I'm seriously worried about the fact that I have three unaccompanied pieces in my LTCL proposal - I'd much prefer to have the support of my very able and wonderful accompanist for a bigger proportion of my recital - but at least with five pieces, I have the means to make up with one piece the deficiencies in performance of another.