Which pieces do you play?

This section of the forum is for repertoire, and I rarely see anyone posting about what their actual repertoire is. By this, I mean: what pieces can you play on your respective instruments? They don't have to be in perfect shape, they can even be pieces you are still learning, but I would like to know. As a pianist, I currently am playing/learning Beethoven's Op. 2 no. 1 Sonata in F minor, Chopin Nocturne in C# minor, Op. Posthumous, Chopin Waltz in C# minor, Op. 64, No. 2, and some others. I have several pieces that I'm learning that aren't in any state to be performed yet. Don't worry about your level of advancement, we were all beginners at one point or other, and there's no shame in being one. I'm mostly interested in hearing what kinds of pieces everyone likes to play.

The C# Minor Valse is sublime. :)

I'm a pianist so here goes!

Bach.-WTC 1- Preludes in C Minor and G major

Prelude and fugue in Bb

Haydn.-Sonata in Eb Hob.xvi 49

Beethoven-Sonata Op.10 no.1

Chopin.-Etudes-Op.10 No.12

Valses-Op.18

Nocturnes-Op.9 no.2, Op.72

Debussy-Suite Pour le Piano

And I love them ALL!

Countless jazz standards, a good chunk of the standard trumpet solo rep, a handful of standard brass quintet rep, wind ensemble standards. What exactly are we looking at, here, just pieces in general we like to play? Solo or what?

Right now, here's what I can play on my piano:

Solfegietto by Bach

Anitra's Tanz (or Dance) by Edvard Grieg

Fur Elise and the 1st movement of the Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven

"Think of Me" piano arrangement by Andrew Llyod Webber's Phantom of the Opera

C# Minor Prelude "Bells of Moscow" by Rachmaninov, Op. 3 No. 2

Rondo Alla Turca by Mozart

Here's what I'm working on currently and making good progress on:

Prelude in G Minor by Rachmaninov

2nd and 3rd Movement of Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven

Recently updated: http://wiki.youngcomposers.com/Profile:James_Householder_IV#Significant_Solo_Repertoire

The ones I'm currently working on are the Hindemith trombone sonata (actually learning for a euphonium player), the Beethoven Rondo a capriccio, a Bach suite in E minor (that I haven't really dug into yet), and all the Cowell works I listed plus "Fabric", which I also haven't dug much into yet.

I haven't played legit repertoire on other instruments in ages. Anybody wanna recommend some soli for clarinet or bass clarinet?

(Hope you don't mind, I fleshed out the standard trumpet rep a bit on the page. :P)

Depends: as a singer, I'm a tenor with the sound of baritone...so I get odd stuff. Here's a sampling:

Debussy's "Le Jets D'eau" from Cinq Chansons de Baudelaire

Debussy's "Les Angelus"

Peter Warlock's "Lullaby"

Peter Warlock's "Sweet-and-Twenty"

Mendelssohn's "Ye People, Rend Your Hearts/If With All your Hearts Ye Truly Love Me" from Elijah

Handel's "Their Sound Has Gone Out" from Elijah

Rossinni's "La Gita in Gondola"

"For the Flow'rs are great Blessings" from Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb

"Kommt dir Manchmal in den Sin, mein zusses lieb" from Brahms' Ziegeunerlieder.

"Fruhlingsglaube" by Mendelssohn (NOT the famous Schubert Version-this one is much more bouncy and happy)

"Ergiti, Amore!" By Alessandro Scarlatti (can't remember the opera it's from)

"Ladies and Their Sensitivities" from Steven Soundheim's Sweeny Todd

I've also performed the roles of the Snake in Bruce Tinkely's "Eve's Odds" and St. John in the oldest known notaded musical drama, "Planctus Mariae" (14th century plainsong chant!)

As a violinist/violist...I'm not as comfy here. Back in the day I played several Vivaldi student violin concertos as the soloist. After I switched to Viola, it primarily became playing in groups. I have played the viola part in

Schubert's String Quintet in C Major (1st movement)

A few Mozart String Quartets

...Some Russian Guy's String Trio.

I'm talking mostly solo rep here, Peter. But if you have a substantial part in an ensemble piece, feel free to mention it. I'm mostly interested in what people love playing. I understand that for some of the band geeks and orch dorks, they don't have much or any solo rep, and I want to make it fair for them.

Wow James, you have a really substantial repertoire. The Mozart horn concerti are magnificent. Any chance of you posting a recording of one or more of those? I'd like to add that to the thread. I'd like to hear some people show their musical skills a bit. Use this as an excuse to show off your technique, musicality, whatever. Please people, post recordings! I'll try and get one up here at some point.

Well, I slapped a good handful of the standard classical trumpet rep on JH's page, here's some other stuff.

To name a few jazz standards I like to play. Just about everything here is for combo:

Concerto for Cootie (solo trpt + big band)

Watermelon Man

Mercy Mercy Mercy

Caravan

What a Wonderful World

Four

So What

Oleo

Black Orpheus

12th Street Rag

Freedom Jazz Dance

I Remember Clifford

Misty

Blue Monk

One Note Samba

Desafinado

Autumn Leaves

Night in Tunisia

All Blues

All the Things You Are

Au Privave

My Funny Valentine

Perdido

I've got Rhythm

Satin Doll

Blue Bossa

Girl from Ipanema

Sister Sadie

In a Sentimental Mood

Footprints

Here are some standard, "classical pop" solo trumpet rep I've got in the works.

Rhapsody in Blue (Dokshizer arrangement)

Virgen de la Macarena (Rafael Mendez)

Napoli (Belstadt)

(Hope you don't mind, I fleshed out the standard trumpet rep a bit on the page. :P)

Actually I do because that list represents repertoire I already can play, but I thank you for the suggestions, I can find a lot of those on IMSLP. Maybe I'll work on some between now and beginning of semester.

Well John, you've basically done what I'm going to be doing over the next couple of years. If my teacher will let me, I'm going to put my main focus on Beethoven sonatas and Bach, with some Chopin in there somewhere.

By the way, mad respect from me for learning most of the hammerklavier. The opening of the fugue movement is so beautiful...

Wow James, you have a really substantial repertoire. The Mozart horn concerti are magnificent. Any chance of you posting a recording of one or more of those? I'd like to add that to the thread. I'd like to hear some people show their musical skills a bit. Use this as an excuse to show off your technique, musicality, whatever. Please people, post recordings! I'll try and get one up here at some point.

I actually started that kind of thread, check it out -> http://forum.youngcomposers.com/t12786/the-recording-thread/

I would love to post a recording of some of the horn concerti but unfortunately I haven't had a horn for over a year now. I don't own my own, they're expensive and I'm a piano major! :veryunsure:

Actually I do because that list represents repertoire I already can play, but I thank you for the suggestions, I can find a lot of those on IMSLP. Maybe I'll work on some between now and beginning of semester.

Whups! Sorry about that. Well... there's your assignment list for your trumpet playing. :phones: :D

John: As soon as you brought up trills, I immediately thought of the Arietta from Sonata 32. My god, if there was any piece in the world I would chose to learn at this moment, it might be that one. I'm still learning the Op. 2 no. 1 (The final movement is hard, yes, but sooo much fun...) After that, I want to learn either the Appasionata or the Op. 90. The second movement of Op. 90 is so beautiful. The Op. 111 is a long term goal. I want to learn it before I'm 18 though. That'd be sweet. :D

When you brought up trills I immediately thought of this piece of Beethoven -

I don't list it on my repertoire because I never learned all eleven bagatelles - this was one of them. Urghh.

@johnbucket: I love them! I just enjoy playing them. To answer your question - no, but I probably could with less than a weeks work. I list not active repertoire, but all past as well as current repertoire. Also - I don't memorise very many works. Only the ones I perform.

John: Yes, I know. That's why I mentioned it. :D

I believe I am technically able to learn the piece. It would certainly take alot of practice, but I think I could do it. The second movement is mostly just indecipherable score-wise. Haha. The only really demanding bits that I saw at first glance were the dual trills in the right hand. I'm sure there are more though. From what it seems though, the first movement looks much more difficult. The whole things looks marginally less difficult than many other Beethoven sonatas though.

I'm a singer/pianist chiefly, so here goes:

Vocal

-Ave Maria (Gonoud version)

-Ach, ich fuels "The Magic Flute"

-Just Spring

-Va godendo

-The Singer

-Poor Wand'ring One

-Art is Calling for Me

-Someone to Watch Over Me

Piano

-Swipesy (Joplin)

-Claire de lune (Debussey)

-Hungarian (MacDowell)

-Rondo in D Major (Mozart)

...and obviously things like Fur Elise and Moonlight Sonata Mv. 1.

That's all that I can think of at the top of my head right now.

I *love* the Rondo in D. I was literally just looking at the score for that, wishing I had time to learn it.

From the past

Pieces I have learned in the past but haven't played them in forever:

Bach:

Minuet in G 1 & 2

Prelude in C

Mozart:

K.545 mvm 1

Rondo Alla Turca

Beethoven:

Für Elise

Moonlight Sonata (whole thing)

Rachmaninoff:

Prelude in C# Minor

Chopin:

Prelude in E minor Op. 28 no. 4

Prelude in A Op. 28 no. 7

Prokofiev:

Prelude in C "Harp"

Macdowell:

Improvisation Op. 46 no. 4

Moszkowzki:

Etude in F

Scott Joplin:

The Entertainer

Koji Kondo:

Super Mario Bros. Main Theme

Super Mario Bros. Underwater Theme

Yoshi's Island Athletic Theme

Kazumi Totaka:

Animal Crossing (GC) Title Theme

K.K. Ballad

Pieces I am not working on but know parts of (started but never finished):

C.P.E. Bach:

Solfeggietto

J.S. Bach:

Little Fugue in G minor

Invention #1

Invention #8

Mozart:

K.265

K.279

K.280

K.331

K.533

K.488

K.545 2nd & 3rd mvm

Beethoven:

Appassionata

Pathétique 2nd & 3rd mvm

Rachmaninoff:

Prelude in G# Minor

Chopin:

Waltz in A minor

Waltz in Eb

Liszt:

Liebestraum

Brahms:

Rhapsody in G minor

Macdowell:

Hexantanz

Scott Joplin:

Maple Leaf Rag

Gershwin:

Rhapsody in Blue

Koji Kondo:

Legend of Zelda Main Theme

Zelda's Lullaby

Kazumi Totaka:

Animal Crossing Wild World Title Theme

K.K. Ragtime

Currently

Pieces that I have played recently and can play well:

Bach:

Fugue in C minor

Chopin:

Fantasie-Impromptu

Macdowell:

Preludium

Pieces I am working on:

Scarlatti:

Sonata in E

Bach:

Prelude in C minor

Beethoven:

Pathétique

Piano concerto no. 5 3rd mvm

Gershwin:

3 Preludes

Koji Kondo:

Good egg galaxy (from Super Mario Galaxy)

That's about it. I probably missed one or two... but oh well

I am in the process of learning these:

Carnival of Venice - Genin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAWZHk4-PPg

Syrinx - Debussy

Black Anemones - Schwantner

This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFUGvjRPPRk

Learning it has made me grow an awesome moustache.

I'm not even joking.

As far as solo repertoire comes... I don't have much, yet. In the way of viola: I've eaten Suzuki completely, and have played a fun duet with a friend, Mozart's String Duo in G, K.423. Originally my friend and I started playing the 1st movement, but we felt we could get the timing down well enough before our concert, so we switched to the 3rd. (Keep in mind, this is the first duet either of us had ever done....) I've worked on Schubert's "Arpeggione for Viola and Piano" a bit, but never gave it much afterthought... I currently sit (albeit unfairly, yet temporarily...) 4th chair in my high school string orchestra, which is kinda lame.... But seeing as how I'm only a freshman and all those who are seated above me are seniors and a junior.... not too bad. I am guaranteed at least 2nd chair next year... (like you guys care about my seating woes... I'm moving on now.)

As far as french horn goes, I suck. But I'm getting better. I've only been playing if for a couple months.... and I hope to take lessons soon. I have sightread through a couple of Mozart's concertos, and I'll be looking at that wiki page shortly.

I have, sadly, no current opportunities to play saxophone, which is the instrument I have the longest history with, nor do I have such an instrument with which to play....

But, oh well. It's 2:30 in the morning and I'm probably more tired than I realize.

Good night... er...Morning.

Pieces I either know currently or can get to performance standard with a little revision practice (I'm a cellist):

JS Bach: Cello Suites Nos.1 (G maj); 2 (D min); 3 (C maj) and movements of 4 (Eb) and 6 (D maj)

JS Bach: Viola da gamba Suite No.2

JS Bach arr Casals/Siloti: Adagio

Beethoven: Sonata in A, Op.69

Beethoven: Variations on 'Bei Mannern, Welche Leibe Fuehlen')

Brahms: Sonata in E minor (mvt 1, could probably learn the rest)

Bridge: Sonata in D minor

Britten: Suite for Solo Cello No.1

Debussy: Sonata

Delius: Elegy

Dvorak: Concerto in B minor mvts 2 and 3

Elgar: Concerto in E minor

Faure: Sonata No.2

Faure: Elegie

Haydn: Concerto in C major

Hindemith: Sonata for solo 'cello

Janacek: Pohadka

Kodaly: Sonata Op.4

Martinu: Sonata No.2

Martinu: Variations on a Theme of Rossini

Martinu: Suite Minature

Messiaen: Louange de l'eternite de Jesus (Quattor pour la Fin du Temps)

Monn (arr. Schoenberg): Concerto in G minor

Saint-Saens: Allegro Appassionato

Shostakovich: Sonata in D minor

Vivaldi: Concerto in G, RV417

Walton: Concerto (mvt 1)

I may think of more later!

Wow... Yeah, I'm still in high school... But I'm starting to challenge myself repertoire-wise. I'm almost finished learning my first concerto, the Mozart Oboe Concerto in C Major. I'm still working on parts of the third Mvt. And general stamina required to play the concerto all the way through. I also need a cadenza to the third movement (no, Mozart did not provide one). Once I've finished that I'm going to work on Alessandro Marcello's Concerto in D Minor and then I hope to finish the concerto/sonata I'm my for myself.

Definitely 'work out' a cadenza (but leave a bit to chance) and them make it look like you're improvising it in performance. Depending on the venue, you can have a lot of fun with this, extended techniques and all that. I did the Haydn concerto last year, which has two cadenzas. The one in the first movement was a bit more modern than Haydn (like Brahms or such like) but still conventional. Then in the slow movement I did a sort of Jimi Hendrix prog-rock improv, with chord slides and massive vibrato. Lots of fun.