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Editing on Feb 6, 2022 with one additional piece.
- Bach's Prelude & Fugue #3 in C#-major from book 1 of the Well Tempered Clavier.
- Bach's Italian Concerto, all 3 movements. I just learned the second movement, but have probably forgotten a lot of it by now.
- Bach's Partita #2 in C-minor. I watched Martha Argerich's performance and was blown away by it. All 6 parts are great in and of themselves, but my favorite part is the Andante section of the 1st Sinfonia.
- My two non-Bach pieces are 1) Rachmaninoff's Prelude #5, op 32 in G major. I heard a recording of it on a video and thought it was just so beautiful. At first, I thought it was Debussy, but surprised to learn it was Rachmaninoff.
- And 2) Chopin's Etude in E-major, Op 10, no 3. I was in the middle of learning this piece in my senior year of high school, but had to stop when I went off to college. I still remember my piano teacher playing it which was the only way I got to learn how these pieces were played in those pre-internet days.
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There are too many dream pieces out of the biggest (?) literature in music history.
Currently might be Schumann op.6 and 11, or some Brahms e.g. the octave trill in op.15 (dream technic?) which are too dreamy to dare to dream...
i should be more realistically practicing scales and arpeggios and strengthening fingers.