Contemporary piano piece for an audition

fiddlestix
Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:32:12 +0000

One of my kids had a Russian piano teacher who taught several works by Soviet composer Rodion Shchedrin. Can’t remember the works now, but here’s a list of works from Wikipedia:

Solo piano

* Piano Pieces (1952-1961)
o Poem;
o Four Pieces from the ballet “The Humpbacked Horse”;
o Humoresque;
o Imitating Albeniz;
o Troika;
o Two Polyphonic Pieces (Two Part Invention and Basso Ostinato)

Piano Sonata, 1962

Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues 1964-1970

Polyphonic Notebook, twenty-five preludes, 1972

Piano Sonata No. 2, 1997

Diary, seven pieces, 2002

Sonatine Concertante, 2005

A la Pizzicato, 2005


This kid went to music school as a violin major, but had piano abilities and repertoire competent enough to have auditioned as a piano major. Perhaps something from this list would be appropriate - and may be familiar to the Russian instructor?? “Post 1940” actually allows many works that aren’t terribly “contemporary”.