Discuss YOUR Repertoire

Just what I said. I've looked around for a thread on this and haven't found anything, so I thought I'd create it. Talk about some of the pieces you play that are in your active repertoire and how long you've known some pieces. Do you have a large repertoire? Or when you are done with learning something (and performing it, optionally) you just move on to the next thing? What are some of your most favourite pieces to play? Don't be afraid to go into detail and maybe suggest some of your favourites for the rest of us to try. :thumbsup:

As for myself, my very first pieces that I taught myself (never had a teacher until I was playing for several years) was Fuer Elise and Beety's Minuet in G. I also learned Bach's Prelude in C, the familiar one in all arpeggios. I can't remember much from back then, but I know I moved on to Mozart's Sonata in C (a popular one), my own simplified version of Brahm's 5th Hungarian Dance (I just omitted extra harmonies here and there until I could really play them, but it was C# minor... a devil for me back then.) I also took on Joplin's The Entertainer, then I found a nice version of The Chopsticks Waltz that my mum loved when I played with these cute sweeping arpeggios ... and before long I was playing Liszt's 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody. Almost the whole entire thing. There was a passage or two I simplified and another or two I simply couldn't play or read or make sense of, but damn it I learned that thing and it is still one of my favourite pieces. It's the only one of the Rhapsodies I ever tackled. Never got through the 12th or 17th, the other two I had tried.

My current repertoire really consists of a few Beety sonatas, Op.31, Op.27/1 and /2 (Moonlight), his two "Sonatinas" a G minor and a G major... the "Path

For Piano:

Firstly, I've only been playing piano for approx. 4 years so my repertoire is not that big...

I started as I think most probably do with Beethoven's Fur Elise...it's become so cliche that I refuse to play it in public now.

Then I moved to Mozart with sonata in C (K545) and some of his early minuets and things like that.

And I taught myself the Largo section of Chopin's Fantasie Impromtu...I'm not game to attempt the other passages

But now I am at last getting into the cool stuff...

I know Chopin's Waltz's in Ab Major, C#minor and I am teaching myself his Grande Valse Brilliante in Eb Major (As a surprise for my piano teacher's next birthday) along with about 5 of his preludes including "Raindrop."

I am also a fan of Beethoven so I am currently learning his "Pathetique" being able to play the3rd mvt relatively fluently and the 1st and 2nd with a few simplifications (still learning them). I can play most of the 1st and 2nd mvt of his "Tempest" Sonata, as well as his sonata Op. 10 No. 1 in c minor. And the 1st and 2nd Movt of his "Moonlight" Sonata (although I haven't looked at the 2nd mvt in a long time)

Further Pieces that I'm learning coz can include Mozart's 20th concerto (I love that piece), his Sonata in A (K331). And slowly other Chopin pieces...Like The "Revolutionary" Etude and (very slowly) Ballade in G minor. Along with Liszt Liebstraume No. 3.

For my 7th grade exam I am learning Bach's prelude and fugue no 16 in G minor (doing it coz my teacher loves bach, I am not such a fan), Debussy's "Golliwog's Cake Walk," and some of the above mentioned.

For Violin:

Monti's "Czardas"

Mozart's concerto no. 3 in G Major, coz its awesome

Haydn's concerto no. 3 (also in G Major...it's also awesome)

Beethoven's Romanze in F Major.

(They aren't as impressive because violin is not my principal instrument)

I think that just about covers the main section of my "repertoire" if that's what you want to call my small achievements. But like Enigmus, If I listed all the pieces I'm learning/know then this post would be considerably longer.

Anyways I will leave it there.

Lol, Beety...that's cute. >_<

I don't have any performance repertoire because I have a TERRIBLE ability to memorize notes. I'd say this is probably the main reason why I just can't be an instrumentalist. Even after about three years of playing guitar (about 2380 hours' worth) and 2 years playing piano (about 340 hours' worth) I still can't really play any decently sophisticated pieces on either instrument. I just seem to be missing my share of muscle memory. >_<

So that is why I write music. I've given up on performing it. :D

*Note that I still do *play* music - I just play it for myself as a way to relax. But I don't play with the intent of preparing to perform in front of anyone. I have tons of pieces and songs that I play regularly, though I wouldn't consider any of them as part of a "mastered repertoire"...

I see. Well, if you have an instrument teacher which I gather you do not, one thing you will be scalloped at about is muscle memory. That is the worst way to memorise a piece. If you want to learn something, take the time to learn it. Learn it slowly. Memorize verrryyyy slooowwwly. At a crawl, a snail's pace. Work one line at a time, maybe two a day. Don't play through the piece. If you do that, especially at tempo, all you are doing is training your muscles to memorise the motions. You are not memorising the piece... your fingers are. This is not the way to do it, it is not reliable and as soon as you sit (or stand) in front of your audience to perform you'll immediately start forgetting passages and making memorisation mistakes due to sheer nervousness. If you use your head you won't have as much of a problem.

I know you don't intend to perform, but think about that as far as memory. Hell, it's nice to visit a friend's place and play up some Bach or Choppy or Schumann or Haydn on their piano. :thumbsup:

Marimba - Creston Concertino

Bach Cello Suite in G

Working on 'My Lady White' for probably the next year or so

Snare - Massons Konzertstuck

Massons 'Prim'

Pan - Teagues 'A Visit to Hell'

working on Bachs 'Partita III in E Major for violin'

I'm sure there's a lot of other stuff, but this is all I'm working on right now.

My percussion ensemble rep is a huge list though. It's quite extensive and inclusive.

Well...

Bach Cello Suites I + II

Couperin Pieces en Concert

Haydn Concerto in C

Haydn not famous concerto in D

Beethoven Sonata no. 3 in A major

Schumann Pieces in the folk style

Schumann Cello Concerto

and maybe more... :w00t:

Ensemble wise:

String Quartet:

Haydn Quartet No. 54 Op. 74

Haydn Quartet No. 59 ("Horseman") Op. 74

Mozart Quartet No. 1 K. 80

Mozart Quartet No. 11 K. 171

Mozart Clarinet Quintet K. 581

Beethoven Quartet No. 9 Op. 59 No. 3

Schubert Quartet No. 13 Op. 29 D.804

Mendelssohn (can't remember which)

Dvorak Quartet No. 10

Dvorak Quartet No. 12 ("American")

Dvorak Quartet No. 13

Shostakovich Quartet No. 8

Shostakovich Quartet No. 11

Shostakovich Two Pieces for String Quartet

And the last Mozart divertimento for string trio.

As you can see...

My extensive and difficult repertoire - beat that!

geesh corbin. :angry:

* = active repertoire

◘ = in progress

♥ += I love it (duh, that's what hearts mean)

unaccompanied oboe

Bach - Sonata in g minor

Jacob - Seven Bagatelles

*Britten - Six Metamorphoses After Ovid

◘ Berio - Sequenza VII

oboe sonatas

*Hindemith

Mozart

*Bozza ♥

Handel G minor

Poulenc

oboe concerti

*Bach double concerto

◘ Mozart

Bach oboe concerto in F

*Martinu ♥ (I absolutely recommend - it is gorgeous)

Goossens ♥

Ibert - Symphonie Concertante ♥

Other works for oboe and various instruments

Arnold - Sonatina

*Telemann - Essercizii Musicii II, IV and VIII

Milhaud - Sonatina

Bax - Quintet

Schumann - Drei Romanzen ♥

Piano

*Ibert - Histories ♥

Debussy - Children's Corner

Haydn - first 14 sonatas (god I hated him after those)

◘ Tveitt - Concerto number 4? I think ♥ ♥ ♥

◘ Griffes = the white peacock

Yeah, so I love the modern. I chose a lot of it without my teacher's permission :D but I think that it has only made me a better player in the end. I've always chosen difficult things for some reason. I like dying I guess.

HAHA, working on the Berio sequenza? How is THAT going? That piece always cracked me up.

And Corbin, I think this more of a discussion hopefully than a "dick showing contest." For instance...

* Franck- Violin sonata in A (transcribed)

I've not heard of a transcribed version of this. What is the difference?

And I'll have to go check out the Dvorak and Shostakovich quartets. Like... now. :toothygrin:

Solo viola

Bach- Cello Suites

Bach- Sonatas and Partitas- Sonatas 1 and 2, Partitas 2 and 3

Hindemith- Sonata Op. 25 No.1

Reger- 3 Suites

Stravinsky- Elegie

Concerti

Bach- Concerto in A minor

Bach- Concerto in E

Bartok- Viola concerto

Hindemith- Der Schwanendreher

Telemann- Concerto in G

Handel/Casadesus- Concerto in B minor

Stamitz- Concerto in D

Hoffmeister- Concerto in D

J.C. Bach/Casadesus- Concerto in C Minor

Viola and Piano

Beethoven- Sonata in A "Kreutzer"

Hindemith- Sonata in F

Shostakovich- Sonata

Mussorgsky- Hopak from "Sorochintsky Fair"

Schubert- Sonata in A minor "Arpeggione"

Chausson- Interlude

Gliere- Romance

Viola and other instruments-

Mozart- Dance

Mozart- Table Music

String quartet

Haydn- Quartet "Sunrise"

Bartok- Quartet No.1 in A minor

HAHA, working on the Berio sequenza? How is THAT going? That piece always cracked me up.

It's really fun actually. but hard. It's divided into time segments of 1-4 seconds so it's a pain the first couple times you play it.

I see Bax, Martinu, Milhaud, Poulenc, Berio AND Jacob on your list Alex... :)

Of course! :nod:

Viola:

I've only been playing three years, so I don't know very much...

Telemann - Concerto in G - mvts. 1 and 2 (but I could learn the other two in about an hour)

Handel/Casadesus - Concerto in B Minor - mvts. 1 and 2. I'll probably learn mvt. 3 in a couple months.

Bach - Cello Suite 1 in G (currently working on)

Assorted student pieces that I'm embarrassed to mention

I seem to be stuck in the Baroque era, don't I? I should ask my teacher about that...

Piano:

I'm rather horrible at piano - when I was a kid I only played cause my parents made me so I only practiced like 5 minutes a day and didn't play any real repertoire. I didn't take piano seriously until about two months ago. Anyways,

Fur elise and Moonlight Sonata - a long time ago, played without any phrasing or musicality whatsoever

Mussgorsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (in progress)

Yep, that's it.

Chamber music:

Dvorak Piano Quintet in A Major (I was on the viola - no way could I handle the piano part.)

16...yeah, I started late. It's sort of frustrating sometimes, cause I practice like 5 times as much as my friends, and they're all way better than me.

Geeze.....

Let's see....on vibes.....

Orinthology (personal favorite. pretty fast, nice chords)

Marimba Spiritual (incredibly difficult. Especially 'cuz I'm playing it on vibes.)

Gillespie/Parker- Anthropology

Mozart- Marriage of Figaro

Mozart- Rondo Alla Turca

Berg- All The Things You Are

Burton- Mirrors

Davis- All Blues

Average White Band- Cut the Cake

Monk- Well You Needn't

Hancock- Cantelope Island

Desmond- Take Five

Steely Dan- Green Earrings

Steely Dan- Almost Gothic

Steely Dan- Razor Boy

Steely Dan- Black Cow

Steely Dan- Time out of Mind

Steely Dan- Hey 19

Steely Dan- Peg

Steely Dan- Deacon Blues

Steely Dan- Blues Beach

Steely Dan- Things I miss the most

Steely Dan- Kid Charlemagne

Steely Dan- Hatian Divorce

Steely Dan- Home At Last

Steely Dan- Do It Again

Stevie Wonder- As

Stevie Wonder- Golden Lady

Stravinsky- Dance of the Sugar Plum Farie (Not incredibly difficult, but fun to play and good for tips)

Some random ensemble pieces I don't care to list.

I play some abysmal classical piano.

And then I regularly play random tunes out of my fakebook.

Yeah, I scratched my head in confusion when I looked at the pieces you all played, too....:toothygrin:

~Kal

Marimba - Creston Concertino

Bach Cello Suite in G

Working on 'My Lady White' for probably the next year or so

Snare - Massons Konzertstuck

Massons 'Prim'

Pan - Teagues 'A Visit to Hell'

working on Bachs 'Partita III in E Major for violin'

I'm sure there's a lot of other stuff, but this is all I'm working on right now.

My percussion ensemble rep is a huge list though. It's quite extensive and inclusive.

woah, good luck with prim!!

due to tendonitis I'm not playing much right now, but what I wish I was playing more of is:

marimba:

Eric Sammut's Four Rotations (all of them)

Klatzow: Dances of Earth and Fire

Fissinger: Suite for Marimba

Naito: Memory of the Woods

Xylophone:

Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

Kabalevsky: Colas Breugnon

Stravinsky: Firebird

Snare:

Delecluse 1

Pratt: Licorice and Molasses

Timpani:

Carter March, Saeta

Beethoven 9

Multi-Percussion:

Volans: She Who Sleeps with a Small Blanket

I miss playing :<<<<<<<

It is okay... I didn't get lessons till your age.

And I was doing stuff like the JC Bach around then.

So you'll be fine.

Cool, maybe I won't be a total failure.

Real JC Bach or Casadesus fakes?

Yeah, everything I've played so far has been out of the Suzuki books - but the B Minor concerto is the last song in book 7 (which is as far as viola goes), so hopefully I'm on my way to some real concertos and things (although after finishing the Handel I got jumped back to Book 5 to work on the Bach suites and a dinky little piece called the Spinning Wheel, so who knows?)

Naito: Memory of the Woods

That's a nifty one. Not one I play often, as it requires a 4-octave vibraphone (I don't believe in marimba. Everyone told me there was no way I could play using Burton's grip, so I did...)

Yeah, my snare is abysmal. I finally got the double bounce like, a year and a half ago.

And according to my band director my timpani playing is like playing a flute up the butt.....

I'm a great tambourine player, if anyone's looking!:D

~Kal

A lot of stuff!? Here I was thinking only 20 pieces for viola had been written in the history of the world. ;)

Is any of it on IMSLP? It's probably worth taking a look at, but I'm somewhat short on cash at the moment.

The concerto in C minor is a Casadesus/ Bach fake, I'm pretty sure... The Handel in B minor is too.

Umm...yeah. Which of course begs the question: why are people, nearly 100 years hence, still putting the JC Bach and Handel names in front of Casadesus' on those concerti? Just one of those things that sticks in my craw. At this late date, having those names on the cover doesn't lend the music (which can stand on its own merits) any more credibility. It's just misleading.

But whatever...there are some pretty impressive lists here. I was not privileged enough to take formal lessons in my instruments or in voice, so I won't trouble anyone with my meagre list.

I never took formal lessons either.

...then again, maybe it shows.....:whistling:

~Kal

...then again, maybe it shows.....

It definitely does in my case. But what I may lack in technical prowess I generally make up for in musicianship and musicality...thought it's not always enought to get me by.

Umm...yeah. Which of course begs the question: why are people, nearly 100 years hence, still putting the JC Bach and Handel names in front of Casadesus' on those concerti?

Yeah, that annoyed me too at first. But after playing it for a couple months and hearing my teacher refer to it, it's stuck as the "Handel Concerto" for me, at least.

(I don't believe in marimba. Everyone told me there was no way I could play using Burton's grip, so I did...)

woah woah woah as a burton player myself, let me assure you that no grip has any advantage over another--they're all just different sounds. Right now I play burton for vibes and stevens for marimba, but I'm also finding that may be because I prefer rattan shafts when playing burton and birch/maple shafts when playing stevens.

I wish I had a 4 octave vibraphone :[

Do you want to know some more interesting things that'd be in your range?

If you're talking to me, which I'm never quite sure about on internet forums, yeah, that would be great!

woah woah woah as a burton player myself, let me assure you that no grip has any advantage over another--they're all just different sounds. Right now I play burton for vibes and stevens for marimba, but I'm also finding that may be because I prefer rattan shafts when playing burton and birch/maple shafts when playing stevens.

I wish I had a 4 octave vibraphone :[

Indeed, all the grips are equal in my opinion. But being the only male player among a dozen females who all play marimba, my opinion doesn't amount to much, lol....

I think stevens definitely looks more graceful, but I just never really liked it.

Yeah, I only played on a 4-octave at some percussion camp I went to. Those things are nice.....you don't know how often I wish I had a low E or Eb.....

~Kal