What pieces is everyone working on right now?

Heres mine:

Grieg - Weddingday at Troldhaugen
Schubert - Sonata in B-Flat - 3rd mmt (Scherzo)
Joplin - Maple Leaf Rag
Debussy - Gollliwogs cakewalk

Ecossaise - Beethoven (duet)
Sonatina/Sonata in G - Beethoven
Butterfinger Boogie - Carol Barratt
Blues No. 1 - Christopher Norton

2 grade 7 ones....I don't want to do them though

danse russe from nutcracker suite and something by Arne from a 1978 gd 7 exam book (my teacher doesn't throw anything away!)

Lontano - Einaudi.

Debussy - arabesque no.1
Brahms - intermezzo op.118 no. 2

How many pieces do/can you work on at once? And clarinetlover, if you don't want to do a piece, don't, especially for an exam.

Shostakovich - Prelude 19 in Eb
Mozart Sonata in C 1st Movement
.... That's right, It's exam time again!!

Also Chopin Nocturne in G minor
Sinfonia from Bach Partita in C minor

But it's summer, which means lessons are taking a break so i'm getting out all my old favourites and working through some others to keep my mind in gear!

New grade 7 pieces. A3 - Mozart, B1 - Gliere, and C1 - Johnny Meghan, and Le Onde.

Le Onde, as well!
C sharp minor Prelude - Rachmaninoff
E flat major waltz - Chopin

I'm working on Prelude and Fugue number 12 (F minor) from Well-Tempered Clavier part 1.. that's by Bach
Also, Mozart's sonata in Bflat K570, Nocurne in E (Op62 number 2) by Chopin and preludes 3 and 11 (Op34) by Shostakovich.

I have to

Just starting 'St James Infirmary' (Dr John version).

Why do I get the feeling I am on the wrong forum?!!

Shelton

hehe loads and loads it seems! here are a few....

grade 5 piano:
dream
gigue
new orleans nightfall

chopin- raindrop prelude
michael nyman - the heart asks pleasure first
scarlatti - sonata in d minor
rolf lovland - nocturne
einaudi albums - le onde, i giorni and eden roc
think thats the majority, there are more though!

How do you get enough time to do all those! Wow...

I find juggling 2 or 3 is tricky if you have to REALLY practice them.
I try to start with a different one each day as the first one I work on will get the most attention and the best concentration.

Mozart Sonata in D K576
Chopin Nocturne in C Minor
Szymanowski etude no. 3
Bach Partita in C minor

and for fun Gershwin piano concerto in F

J.S. Bach - Corrente
Liszt - En Reve
Bodorova - Carousel

All current Grade 7 pieces

Bach - Prelude and Fugue No. 20 from WTC I
Bach - Sinfonia from Partita No. 2
Byrd - Pavana and Galliarda, BK4

That tune 'the heart asks pleasure first' is quality. I've got a lot that I'm passively working on but only properly on the ones listed at the top.

I love the heart asks pleasure first too. So pretty!
I'm currently working on
'The Flight of the Bumbleebee' (for piano solo) - Rimsky Korsakov
- after I've finished this piece I think i'll be the Queen of chromatic scales!
Arabesque Number 2 - Debussy
(just finished the first one which took long enough!)

That's all I've had time for recently, but finished alevels now (woohoo) so will start some more! If any of you have any suggestions of really good pieces let me know! I love romantic piano music more than anything, so if you have some favourites let me know!

Currently Mozart Sonata K545 in C major, and one of my grade 6 pieces, the Allegro one.

Right now.......
Liszt Rigoletto paraphrase
Schubert impromptu in g flat
Chopin etude op 10 no.3
Debussy etude no.1
and a bit of Schubert wanderer fantasie. Will work on that one properly on its own when I have the others learnt.

Giga
Sleeping Cat
Das Echo

(all grade 1 exam pieces)

I'm think I'm going to order some Mendelssohn, Schubert and Grieg books over the summer.

My passive tunes(ones which aren't perfect but which I don't practise enough):

Sonata in A - Mozart (including Alla Turca) K331
Bridge over troubled water - Simon & Garfunkel (fantastic)
Minuet in G & Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven
All Vanessa Carlton tunes
Spring Song - Mendelssohn
Serenade - Schubert

You're doing that one too? Isn't the bit where it goes into 3/4 at the end just a nightmare? It makes my brain hurt if I practise for too long!

Just finished 'To a wild Rose' (as much as you ever finish any piece)

Still working on...

Farewell to Stromness
Rag Caprise no. 2 'Romance'

Rag Caprise in coming along well, not put in so much time on Farewell

And just starting...

Beethoven, 1st movement from Sonata in G (Op 49 no. 2)
Mozart, 1st movement from sonata in E flat (K282 I think)

These are all pieces from 1st concert certificate sylabus (you have to play 4, sop will probably keep 'to a wild rose' as reserve piece.

I've also started the piano accompanyment to 'Song of India' (Rimsy Korsakof) which is wonderful, but I've never accompaied anyone before so I find it very strange just playing broken chords with no melody. I've had one lesson on it so far, and my teacher played a piano transcription of thw whole piece so I could get the idea into my head. Very nice - in fact I had to fight the urge to just learn the piano version!! Really looking forward to trying it with a singer - that will be a new experience.

I'm also trying to get Mozart Fantasy in D minor and Le Onde to the point where I could perform them. Can play them both through fine on my own with no one listening, but not too sure how I'd manage them with quaking fingers and butterflies in my stomach!!!

Chopin's Etude in C major Op.10 no.1
Chopin's Ballade in G minor Op.23

And my exam pieces:
Bach's P&F no.20 from WTC bk.2
Mozart's K330 1st mvt
Chopin's Polonaise in C minor Op.40 no.2

Now perfecting the exam pieces. I just need to get the Chopin Etude to speed. Halfway through the Ballade. I plan to play it for a competition at the end of the year. May want to start a Liszt piece after I finish the Ballade.

I am working on this one too. I went for a Performance Assessment two days ago for it

Such a complex piece being played in a performance assessment leads me to ask a question: when one does a performance assessment does the examiner ask what one hopes to get out of it? For example, two adult students could go into a performance assessment and play this piece, one could be a keen student who has reasonable competence and doesn't want to work through the grades but has chosen this piece above their level and decided to learn it just because they adore it; another could be working towards an LRSM with a view to playing this piece and want some constructive criticism/advice about the piece at that level. Clearly the examiner needs to know which of these is the case in order to tailor the comments to suit the requirements: in this example if the playing levels were equivilant and well short of LRSM level the first candidate could appropriately be given a glowing report saying how brilliant their playing was; whilst the latter would have to be given really quite a bad report in order to genuinely give them the best feedback possible. The two candidates simply could not sensibly be 'marked' on the same level in this assessment format.

On another note: this thread certainly answers the question should one play more than one piece at once with a resounding yes; I do have a question for everyone who has answered with a long list, are you actually seriously working on all those pieces right now or are you actually only concentrating on a few and keeping the others warm/playing around with them occasionally? Technically I could list about four pieces that I'm 'working on' at the moment but in reality I'm only really concentrating and dedicating most of my time to one and that's all that I would really class that I am working on at the moment (along with scales and sightreading...).

I agree.

I have countless pieces that I play through to keep them warm and 3 pieces that I am learning including one to which I tend to give more attention whilst getting it to a level where I can play it through before getting to the refinement/polishing stage (the longest stage!!) As I am not working towards an exam at present I have to really force myself to sightread and do scales and the other problem is that at some sessions I just want to play pieces that I am keeping warm. I need that exam carrot! And Wimbledon match of the day and chores to do in the garden do not help!

Yes (speaking from experience). Then then feedback will be relevant to that.

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Such a complex piece being played in a performance assessment leads me to ask a question: when one does a performance assessment does the examiner ask what one hopes to get out of it?

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I think they will. As my examiner was very friendly, we start talking a bit. I told him I have not play the piano for long time, I register for the PA just to make sure I play. After I played the piece, he gave me some simple yet very contructive advices on how to improve the playing e.g. 'Try to bring up the melody a bit more, especially melody leading to the climax of the piece, some chromatic chords need complete accuracy. ' He showed me a bit on the piano as well.

Hope I will register for next session.

I'm currently working on:

Beethoven - tempest sonata
Chopin - Nocturne c#m op. posth.
Bach - WTC book 1 prelude and fugue in F minor
Ravel - Pavane pour une infante defunte
Schubert - Moment musical op.94 no.3
Piazolla - Muerte del Angel

Partita no.6 in E minor, BWV 830 by JSB

Rachmaninoff - Prelude in G minor Op. 23 No. 5 (done! just need to break the chords clearer ><)
Liszt - Transcedental Etude in D minor (eep, need to find the major 3rds scale fingering somewhere... if you can help please say ^^)
Sinding - Rustle of Spring
Beethoven - Rage over a Lost Penny (or Rondo Capricco in G major or something)
Joplin - Gladiolus Rag

I started that Beethoven rondo a cappriccio (or whatever) but just find it incredibly long and repetitive. Like Haydn's Gypsy Rondo, its a good tune but is just a tad on the repetitious side.

Anyone on here play modern music? (eg. Vanessa Carlton, Jamie Callum)

I'm working on:

Bach Prelude and Fugue No.5 in D major from Book II of WTC
Beethoven's (full) Sonata in C# Minor "Moonlight"
Brahms' Romance in F from Six Piano Pieces, and
Gerswhin Preludes 2 and 3 from Preludes for Piano

Those are all for my upcoming diploma. I'm playing a few others just for fun (Rachmaninoff Prelude in C# Minor, Gershwin's 1st prelude, Debussy's Reverie) as they are quite easy and I would like to perform them in my solo recital this upcoming November. I have put them on hold this month though, just till my diploma exam is over

I do play a lot of moden music. I just never practice so i don't consider them as pieces i'm WORKING on

I'm playing a fairly modern piece called 'St James Infirmary' by the New Orleans pianist Dr John. I played it today in front of my father who, for the first time ever, actually said he enjoyed listening to me play. I must admit, it makes a change to play blues instead of classical music needed for exams.

Shelton

*compares her pieces to everyone elses*
oh I feel so small lol.

I'm practising Bach Invention No.1 and my exam pieces

Is this for fun or are you planning to do an FRSM? I don't know if you've heard Trevor Pinnock's Naxos recording of that on Harpsichord, but it's really quite stunning.

I'm doing a little experiment with Fugue 20 from WTC I at the moment to see whether I can survive it, from start to finish, in two weeks. 6 days in, I'm half-way, so I might just be able to pull it off

That reminds me... Last year, I walked past Jamie Cullum in the city's music store (Allans Music, Melbourne). I was just like... hannnnng on a minute, I know that person.
I was surprised no one else realised. Maybe they were just being polite...?

Yeah, I just think of the Rondo a Cappricio as a 'joke'... I think it's rather teasing to the listener... Plus, it annoys my little sister for some reason.

I love playing this piece !!

Just started a new Bach prelude (teacher says I'm not good enough to play a fugue yet.... ).....(she's probably right.... )

Here is my repertoire and practise pieces up to now.

1) Little Serenade - Haydn
2) Ecossise - Beethoven
3) Arabesque - Burmiuller
4) Fantasy in Dm K397 - Mozart (not complete)
5) Pavane for a Dead Princess - Ravel (starting)
6) Traumerei - Schumann (memorized it but don't play it anymore so Im forgetting it because of 4) and 5) which I love playing or should I say try to play .

I've been playing since march when I bought my yamaha clavinova. All piano music is new to me but it's great to see so much available. If only I had more time.

Peter

well.

1. Haydn Eb sonata no.49 (movement 1 for grade 8, and then maybe the whole sonata)
2. bach prelude + fugue no.20 c major.
3. chopin polonaise c minor op40 no2.
4. liszt consolation no2 (dont play it much now but i keep it ticking when i need it)

and kind of working on (without my teacher) for fun

joplin The Entertainer, nocturne C# minor op.posthumous.

hey.
i wanna get a piece of sheet music, but not a whole book. I have loads of books to work on, but just fancy a change. I can't seem to find just one song on its own - most are too easy. I love a challenge - any suggestions??



OOO - I do some of my exams with London College Of Music - are there anyone else who do their exams - or jusy abrsm?
Also, any keyboard players out there?

yep it is hard (ahh im doing it in a concert next week! ) hehe but its absolutely gorg! (i couldnt resist learning it!)


yeah i really wish that more blues and stuff could be incorporated into the exams - i know they have the section c stuff, but it would be really nice to have a much wider choice of repertoire rather than the classically predominated exams they have at the moment!



erm the heart asks pleasure first is gorg! hehe cant really think off any of the top of me head - maybe go music-shop-browsing? (my favourite hobby - sadly the most expensive one too - i have absolutely no self control! ) depends what kind of style really!
and im doing an exam with victoria college of music, though i do take exams with abrsm too!
and ive done grade 5 now! yay!
so my new list:
hehe 'serious' pieces:
the heart asks pleasure first (for concert)
beethoven sonata in c minor , 1st mov. (avcm)
chopin raindrop prelude (avcm)
scarlatti sonata in d minor (avcm)

and 'fun' pieces - einaudi books (le onde, i giorni, eden roc) and classic chillout gold (which has some really great pieces in it!)

any1 else doin G3?i'm doing A3sonantina iin b flat, b3 sunshine and c3 equivoque something or other.

grade 8 pieces:
allemande-j.s. Bach
allegro assai-cpe Bach
Arabesque I-Debussy

and other stuff:
just finished Le Onde...yay!
Bella Notte, Nefeli, and I Giorni by Einaudi (i only put three because i got the book this morning and cant decide which one to learn first. they're so nice!)
and wind of life by Joe Hisaishi