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Chopin first?
Any others?
(Piano solo of course)
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I'm learning Schumann's 3rd. It amazes me how neglected it is.
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I suspect that most sonatas are rarely performed, no matter who the composer. You would not expect many performances of say, Richard Wagner's piano sonatas, for instance. There are not many of composers known for piano music, such as Mendelssohns'. Even Brahms, you are not likely to find a performance of any except for the 3rd and the two-piano sonata, and neither of them are performed all that often.
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Tchaikovsky wrote at least 3. I've never heard a note of any of them.
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I'm learning Schumann's 3rd. It amazes me how neglected it is. I LOVE that sonata! Just rediscovered it after I saw it on the program of Kissin's upcoming recital in Vienna. How are you getting on with it? Oh gods, that 4th movement. I find myself humming it all day after one listen
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I'm learning Schumann's 3rd. It amazes me how neglected it is. I LOVE that sonata! Just rediscovered it after I saw it on the program of Kissin's upcoming recital in Vienna. How are you getting on with it? Oh gods, that 4th movement. I find myself humming it all day after one listen I just looked up his Vienna programme and it looks fantastic! I love his Schumann. It's a great sonata to learn. I haven't run into any huge problems (yet!). Often I find with Schumann that something which sounds fairly easy turns out to be a finger breaker.
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I just looked up his Vienna programme and it looks fantastic! I love his Schumann.
It's a great sonata to learn. I haven't run into any huge problems (yet!). Often I find with Schumann that something which sounds fairly easy turns out to be a finger breaker. That's true, Schumann's the master of deception. It works the other way around too: As a child, I loved the "Album für die Jugend" because it's got a lot of pieces that aren't challenging technically but sound really impressive If you've got Idagio, I warmly recommend looking up Andras Schiff's live performance of the 3rd Sonata, it's incredible. I'm very curious to hear Kissin's take on it.
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Schiff's Schumann is wonderful!
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Tchaikovsky wrote at least 3. I've never heard a note of any of them. Great pianists like Richter and Pletnev have championed No.2 but the others are never played. Most of Scarlatti’s and Haydn’s sonatas are never performed, nor the earlier Mozart and Schubert ones. Nor those of Mendelssohn, Wagner, R.Strauss or Stravinsky.
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I heard the Stravinsky played in concert about 40 years ago. I just tuned the pianist's piano, but he is a high-powered lawyer now.
If you go to nothing but concerts by top-ranked musicians in big concert halls, you are not likely to hear a lot of rarely played music. That will not fill up the halls. You need to go to the smaller venues to hear different music.
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If you go to nothing but concerts by top-ranked musicians in big concert halls, you are not likely to hear a lot of rarely played music. That will not fill up the halls. You need to go to the smaller venues to hear different music. I definitely agree. That's one of the things I liked about the Mannes IKIF concerts when Mannes was on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The hall holds maybe 350 at most and the pianists did choose at least some rep that was not the standard fare.
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Last summer I prepared Beethoven’s sonata op 78 for the Beethoven master class at the Victoria Conservatory’s summer academy. I was very dismayed when someone else had also prepared it.
This coming summer should be different. I’ve been working on Mendelssohn’s sonata number 1, op 6 in e minor. It’s lovely. The people in my piano group didn’t even know he had written a sonata. He wrote 3. Wish me luck!
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Last summer I prepared Beethoven’s sonata op 78 for the Beethoven master class at the Victoria Conservatory’s summer academy. I was very dismayed when someone else had also prepared it.
This coming summer should be different. I’ve been working on Mendelssohn’s sonata number 1, op 6 in e minor. It’s lovely. The people in my piano group didn’t even know he had written a sonata. He wrote 3. Wish me luck! Don't they let you know what the other players have chosen in advance of the event?
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Last summer I prepared Beethoven’s sonata op 78 for the Beethoven master class at the Victoria Conservatory’s summer academy. I was very dismayed when someone else had also prepared it.
This coming summer should be different. I’ve been working on Mendelssohn’s sonata number 1, op 6 in e minor. It’s lovely. The people in my piano group didn’t even know he had written a sonata. He wrote 3. Wish me luck! Don't they let you know what the other players have chosen in advance of the event? It's not an event; it's a two-week "piano camp" for lack of a better term. No the VCM's Summer Piano Academy doesn't let us know what others are performing. People come to the Academy from various locations, they sign up at different times, some even sign up at the last minute, and many of us don't decide until we get there what we are planning to perform. There is no requirement for an advance repertoire list; we simply have to indicate, by current repertoire, what our performance level is so that we are put in master classes with others of like abilities. Those who sign up early may not even be sure what they will be ready to perform when the summer session begins Regards,
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If you go to nothing but concerts by top-ranked musicians in big concert halls, you are not likely to hear a lot of rarely played music. That will not fill up the halls. You need to go to the smaller venues to hear different music. I definitely agree. That's one of the things I liked about the Mannes IKIF concerts when Mannes was on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The hall holds maybe 350 at most and the pianists did choose at least some rep that was not the standard fare. I've often found very famous pianists championing the lesser-known composers and works. People go to the recitals to see them anyway.
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Hi, Hakki! The two piano sonatas of Alexander Glazunov certainly haven't been played much -- and I consider Glazunov to be a relatively well-known composer. Emil Gilels made a case for #2, and he's the only well-known pianist that I'm aware of. Personally, I like #1 quite a bit more, but it's been difficult even finding a YouTube recording of it.
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Thanks for the examples. I will check the Schumann.
How about Scriabin?
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I think Prokofiev 1 and Scriabin 1 are rarely performed. The Grieg Sonata and early Schubert Sonatas are rarely performed in professional recitals.
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I think Prokofiev 1 and Scriabin 1 are rarely performed. The Grieg Sonata and early Schubert Sonatas are rarely performed in professional recitals. Re: the Grieg......I heard Alicia de Larrocha perform it in Carnegie Hall in late 1969. New York Times music critic Harold Schonberg wrote a somewhat favorable review of the recital, but criticized de Larrocha's programming of the Grieg, stating (if I recall correctly) that it was lightweight.
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Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor, Op. 61.
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