If a recital program HAD TO consist of only ONE composer

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Which would you most enjoy?

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Liszt, but that’s me. :slight_smile:

LvB, Schubert, Chopin ok too. Maybe Bach, but at Mozart I’d find a path one way or another through all those legs to crawl out of the auditorium not to turn in to a My Little Pony character from all neatness.

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+1 on Liszt. Heard Chamayou do all song tranny first half and TEs second half, and it was wikid. I’ll hear Favorin do complete Années de pèlerinage next year. I actually would love to hear a complete book of WTC by the right pianist. I really could do without another all Schubert, unless it was a lieder recital. I think I could handle an all Rachmaninoff or Medtner recital by the right pianist also. Provided there were no Corelli variations or Reminiscenza.

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Liszt is perhaps cheating if you include trannies and parasheeyatz :sunglasses:

Which are your fave Medtner works BRU?

I’d love to hear the Minacciosa in recital

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F minor sonata op 5, Nightwind, Tragica, Skazki op 51. Lots of great stuff in the right hands.

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Schubert needs to be well programmed. Not just calling it a day with four sonatas as most mofos would do here in post-Brendelian times, but one son, the klavierstĂĽcke, a selection of dances and an impromptu set for instance would keep me happy.

But tru, I love Schubert (when he’s not writing sonatas), and no single composer program would be my first choice if I could pick.

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LISZT LISZT AND MORE LISZT

Truuuuu

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I’ve said it before, but I don’t think most pianists put enough thought into their programming. Not saying that’s the case here, but Chamayou is doing a programme of miniatures (and DJ) next year. In spite of being very interested in hearing his DJ, I couldn’t bring myself to buy a ticket for that one.

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Personally, I think that almost every great composer can have his own concert, but it just dependa how you program it…

(This Sunday I did all Debussy’s Chamber music with piano, performed in it’s chronological order and I think it worked very well, esp. since you could hear Debussy’s developement from an early Piano Trio in G major, which he wrote when he was 18, to his Violin Sonata, which is actually the last piece he wrote).

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Liszt. Not least because I like him so much, but because there is an almost unparallelled variety of material. It’s incredible in its own way that someone who wrote the Grand Galop could also write music such as Czardas Macabre and other late stuff.

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ahahahah i wud azzume all da legendary compozahz had at leazt enuff gensui material to fill a 1-hour rectal, no?

i iz talkin about zelectin only da bezt zheeyatz obviouzly, zo all compozahz zhud qualify, even an averagely talented mofo lyk da ZHOE :sunglasses:

but if da prog zelexion iz to be done

AT RANDOM, from da full lizt of compoz da mofo wrote

den i wud want to hear da CHOP, da ROCK, da KAN

but pozz not da PIMP :sunglasses:

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The most spiritual experience for me is to listen Bach’s music for one-composer program. It did it with Matthaus and Johannes passions, 6 cello suites (transcribed for guitar) and Goldbergs (once on piano, other time for string trio). I can imagine that it’s amazing to hear one book of WTC in one evening…

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One piece concerts don’t really count. I’ll hear the Goldbergs twice this season; once by Koroliov, the other by Fray. Could be 3 if I decide to attend Aimard’s (but probably won’t).

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My answer would be: well, it’s all about WHO is playing it… :sunglasses:

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So then the question becomes, which composer can withstand the least talented interpreters the best?

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Haydn maybe? From technical and musical level still enjoy even bad perfs in concert.

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Maybe we should assume that the technique is up to scratch? Otherwise it will be something like Satie. Haydn is a good choice, so long as you’re not into HIP (or pretend that it doesn’t exist). Maybe early and mid Beethoven?

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Or pozz zum scrib…

Da op 8 in da first half n den sum latah works n sum zonz in da zecond half…

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I arsesume we’re talking just piano. (I heard an all VW program by Philharmonia which worked, bloody long though, 2 intervals!)
If it’s programmed well, any great composer could withstand a full recital I think. Mix Zart Zons with the rondos and fantasies and I think you could get a decent program.
That being said I hate the CD rep program like all Chopin Nocturnes, last 3 Beethoven/Schubert. Mix in Chopin nocturnes with Scherzi, Ballades, a sonata and there’s an easy program.

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Da Slit did the complete Chopin nocturnes here last year, and even that couldn’t have been as bad as the recital I ended up seeing her in :whale:
Randomly da 4 scherzi/4 ballades combo pozz my most hated CD. Fiorentino did a good all Chopin at Newport one year. It helps that I like his Chopin, however.