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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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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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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'.]