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My bucket-list item is Rachmaninoff's 18th variation from A Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. My dad played the Somewhere in Time soundtrack when I was little and I was always captivated by that piece. I would also like to eventually play and entire Bach French Suite.
On the not so classical side of things would be Nobuo Uematsu's Melodies of Life from the Final Fantasy Piano Opera VII/VIII/IX.
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Jonathan Comyns Oh yes, this Rachmaninow is a dream.
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After turning 50, I have to acknowledge that I'm probably never going to get to the point where I can play Vers La Flamme or Eine Kleine Mitternachmusik. A more reasonable stretch goal might be Liszt's St. Francis Assisi Preaching to the Birds. I'm an avid birder and photographer. I've got tons of bird photos, cemetery photos, and birds in cemetery photos, and Liszt seems like the natural soundtrack. As far as Liszt's music goes, it has a good balance of his more spiritual side and some modest imaginative technical frills, nothing too over the top.
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Ted it's a wonderful piece. Brendel's recording of it is great, but somehow I keep coming back to Wilhelm Kempff's delicate, intimate and sensitive reading from the 1970s.
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In 2021 on the Chopin Competition there was a Spanish pianist, who played Chopin鈥榮 3. Sonata and I have fallen in love with this piece. This competition brought me back to practicing piano. To play this sonata is a dream, but I think it鈥檚 too difficult especially the 4. movement. But who knows? And the 4. Ballade is one the second place of my list.
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Delving deeply into the Taubman approach is what is on my bucket list in 2024. I have dream pieces that I have been holding off on until I acquire more freedom technically so I am hoping that continued work on technique and absorbing the Taubman philosophy in my repertoire will help me take a step closer to feeling prepared enough to tackle some of my dream pieces.
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At 76 and an amateur having practiced daily for 6 years with a teacher it matters not what I play but only if I touch someone emotionally.
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Conrad Winn Yes, a good reminder of why we play.
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I don't know if a lot of folks in this group can relate to this one, but my ultimate musical dream is to be on a stage performing one of my own songs, and have the crowd sing it to me.
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I'm composer and classical guitarist rather than a pianist, so my bucket list is a little more humble: probably from Bach's WTC Book 1, Preludes and Fugues in C# minor, Eb minor, and the Prelude in Eb major. They've been some of my favourites for most of my life. I might have added Contrapunctus 14, but unfortunately that didn't quite make it properly onto Bach's list...
I'd also love to have a large composition for a massive choir performed, also one for a large orchestra, for percussion ensemble, different vocal ensembles, instrumental ensembles... Ah, sorry that's not one item, let's hope for a long life!
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Out of a long bucket list of pieces to master and genres to explore for the first time, I would choose my "top of list" item to be to play a piano concerto in front of a live audience, somewhere, sometime. Which concerto? The most "realistic dream" would be Mozart # 23, which I remember hearing for the first time when I was about 7, and it's been a favorite since. [Of course I could have said Rach 3, which I also love, but that's where I have to be 'realistic'.]
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Ah, I should've added, with all the pianists here:
I'd love to write a piano concerto, if anyone here is up for a beautiful collaboration
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Late response. Chopin Ballade #1, thanks for looking at my future questions on the general board...you'll see how slow I progress based on the frequency of the questions
I didn't like listening to this piece growing up. The scherzando section seems out of place and the last page of the coda is interminable. I would even nod off to my beloved Artur Rubinstein.
Then, a confluence of multiple events this spring changed my mind: my cousin sent me Play It Again; turmoil in my personal life, work, and health; with perfect timing, my favorite Chopin YouTuber then posted his live performance which was the first one that made me cry. If Garrick Ohlsson says it's hard, then I need not feel ashamed.
As a bonus, I watched the animated series, Your Lie in April.
Thanks for letting me share
