Contemporary piano piece for an audition

ksenia
Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:10:38 +0000

I love Schedrin’s pieces, they are just great! Especially Four Pieces from the ballet “The Humpbacked Horse”, Humoresque, Imitating Albeniz, and Troika.
Thank you ‘Rigaudon’ for suggestion expend my musical world view. I already started work on it. Thanks for understanding, ‘stephmin’. Thanks ‘Mezzo’sMama’ for advice about referrals.
The dicision to change a teacher was in my mind, but there is really akward school situation appeard among faculty, because of it… And now, moreover, this teacher wants me to stay with him for the master’s degree, even I said, that I want to move on with my career, and be at a different place.
So, it seems like I am on my own for the preparation to auditions…

I work on:

Bach Prelude and Fugue A dur (I),
Mozart sonata C major K. 330,
Brahms Sonata op. 5 no. 3 f minor (1-5mvms)
Rachmaninov etude-tabluex #f op.39 no.3

How do you think, if that program would be good for the auditions?
And I just took Robert Casadesus Toccata for the XX century requirement.
I have Suggestion diaboliques of Prokofiev as well.
Most of them though ask just for ‘3 different style pieces’.
The most prefer to hear:
original composition of Bach, classical sonata+ romantical/contamporary piece.
Is choice of that Prelude and Fugue good, what do you think? I also have E-dur from the both books of Well Tempered Clavier.
Or is it better to play some partita/suite for the audition?
Brahms’ sonata’s duration is ~35 minutes, Mozart is about 15, Bach is about 4-5, and Rachmaninov is4-5.
Thank you for help, suggestions and collique’s encouragment