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Gradedpaino
Hi everyone, I'm not sure if this thread has already been done before but I've been thinking about pieces I've always wanted to learn in my life time, most of them are quite advanced and I'm not near being able to play some but I'm quite interested in what pieces the rest of you have always wanted to learn, which you have managed to achieve so far and which you haven't yet but will in the future smile.gif thanks.

My list:
Important event Schumann- achieved
Kinderscenen Schumann- I can play 3 out of the 13 and hope to be able to play them all by the end of next year
Wedding day at troldhaugen- working on now
Monnlight sonata 3rd movement Beethoven- distant future
Fantasia in d Mozart- start learning when I get the time
Debussys arabesques- start next year
Debussy prelude from suite bergamasque and Clair de line- when I get the time- same with the sunken cathedral
Rachmaninoff- prelude in c sharp minor

I'll add more if I cAn think of any smile.gif I'm very excited about wedding day at troldhaugen by Greg ,I absolutely love it! smile.gif


Guitarist
QUOTE(Gradedpaino @ Aug 15 2012, 12:45 AM) *

Hi everyone, I'm not sure if this thread has already been done before but I've been thinking about pieces I've always wanted to learn in my life time, most of them are quite advanced and I'm not near being able to play some but I'm quite interested in what pieces the rest of you have always wanted to learn, which you have managed to achieve so far and which you haven't yet but will in the future smile.gif thanks.

My list:
Important event Schumann- achieved
Kinderscenen Schumann- I can play 3 out of the 13 and hope to be able to play them all by the end of next year
Wedding day at troldhaugen- working on now
Monnlight sonata 3rd movement Beethoven- distant future
Fantasia in d Mozart- start learning when I get the time
Debussys arabesques- start next year
Debussy prelude from suite bergamasque and Clair de line- when I get the time- same with the sunken cathedral
Rachmaninoff- prelude in c sharp minor

I'll add more if I cAn think of any smile.gif I'm very excited about wedding day at troldhaugen by Greg ,I absolutely love it! smile.gif

Concerto de Aranquez by Rodrigo Every movement!
Maybe in 10 years time.
Splog
QUOTE(Guitarist @ Aug 15 2012, 09:14 AM) *


Concerto de Aranquez by Rodrigo Every movement!
Maybe in 10 years time.


Who doesn't dream of that one? guitar.gif biggrin.gif
DaisyChain
All five piano concerto's - Beethoven
All 32 sonata's- Beethoven
Impromptu in Gflat major- Schubert
Kinderscenen- Schumann
Concerto's 1 and 2 - Mendelssohn

Just a pipe dream at the moment, but who knows...? rolleyes.gif
LoopyLoz
QUOTE(Splog @ Aug 15 2012, 09:55 AM) *

QUOTE(Guitarist @ Aug 15 2012, 09:14 AM) *


Concerto de Aranquez by Rodrigo Every movement!
Maybe in 10 years time.


Who doesn't dream of that one? guitar.gif biggrin.gif


I'd love to learn the solo of that piece, but I think the violin is too high. I reckon it'll sound nice on a viola though.
Lemontree
I just wonder, how long the board allows a post to be blush.gif tongue.gif biggrin.gif
kenm
QUOTE(Splog @ Aug 15 2012, 09:55 AM) *

QUOTE(Guitarist @ Aug 15 2012, 09:14 AM) *


Concerto de Aranquez by Rodrigo Every movement!
Maybe in 10 years time.


Who doesn't dream of that one? guitar.gif biggrin.gif

Since you ask: me.

I'd love to be able to conduct Shostakovich Symphony No 10 from memory. What a pity I don't believe in reincarnation. sad.gif
BitterSweet
Top of my singing wish list is currently 'Mon cour s'ouvre a ta voix' by Saint-Saens from Samson et Dalilah. It topped out after hearing the wonderful Russian mezzo sing it for Cardiff Singer of the World.

Dalilah and Carmen are my top wish-list roles right now...
sweettalk
I would just love to be able to play some of those really long Mozart pieces - I saw a big, burly Mozart book in a music shop a few months ago and I just thought "Woooah!". I could just tell it would be a pain to keep open on the piano stand rolleyes.gif

Apart from them, I would just love to play some classic Jazz/Blues standards. Two of my biggest piano inspirations are Jamie Cullum and Hugh Laurie, so I suppose that figures biggrin.gif
Car Expert
QUOTE(Lemontree @ Aug 17 2012, 12:42 PM) *
I just wonder, how long the board allows a post to be blush.gif tongue.gif biggrin.gif
1,024,000 characters apparently tongue.gif

Off the top of my head, I'd like to be able to play I Giorni by Einaudi...wub.gif

Car Expert
Lemontree
QUOTE(Car Expert @ Aug 22 2012, 10:26 PM) *

QUOTE(Lemontree @ Aug 17 2012, 12:42 PM) *
I just wonder, how long the board allows a post to be blush.gif tongue.gif biggrin.gif
1,024,000 characters apparently tongue.gif

Car Expert


Not long enough! tongue.gif
benjaminja
A Mozart piano concerto. Seeing as I am not a pianist, this may take some time to accomplish... huh.gif
GMc
I am an amateur pianist and cellist so I could attempt this on the piano I suppose ( I dont as I dont think I would make a very good job of it) but in my dreams i would be able to play soemthing very different;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDl1vjJwBLc

And if the dream could carry on a bit may as well add these which many people play but not as well as this;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAfLvTJr4PQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYSeRGzk_nU

Judging by the amount of unlearnt music I have on the shelves for both the instruments I can actually play the list for them would be very long........


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