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What are you playing at the moment?

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#1 ·
I'm not sure if there is a thread about this, but the idea is to tell what pieces you are playing in your orchestra, chamber group, or other group, or what you have played.

I haven't actually started playing this year (first rehearsal tonight), but I am playing Sibelius' Finlandia in one orchestra; and Tchaikovsky's Little Russian Symphony, and
Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Overture in the other, which I am really looking forward to.

Other pieces I have played are: Tchaikovsky symphony 5 and 6, Cappricio Italien and Marche Slave; Dvorak symphony 6,8,9; Sibelius Symphony 2, Karelia Suite; and Elgar enigma Variations.

So tell me what you are currently playing, and have played previously.:)
 
#35 ·
I'm currently on summer break but my audition packet for chair placement in the fall includes the following: the Eb clarinet solo from Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique," the Rondo from Mozart's "Clarinet Concerto," the Forlana from Gerald Finzi's "Five Bagatelles for Clarinet" (LOVE this piece), and a solo excerpt from Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony (I am so tired of this solo).
 
#38 ·
1st programme:
Smetana's Moldau: an awful lot of work for violists: waves, waves and more waves...
It's still the piece that made me fall in love with classical music!

2nd programme:
Max Bruch, Kol Nidrei: the easy piece...

Rachmaninov, Symphonic Dances: I'm not sure about those ones, they could be really tricky?

Mendelssohn, Symphony No 4, "The Italian" : Ugh, a hefty piece of work.

Piano: Beethoven's "Apassionata": Not too difficult, but needs a lot of practice

Viola: some easy duets for two violins: apart from trying to read the violin key on viola, easy and just for fun...

I've lots to do, don't I?
 
#40 ·
I'm currently learning:

Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major
Chopin - Ballade No. 1 in G minor
Faure - Barcarolle No. 1 in A minor
Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 5

For my senior college piano recital, this October. The Scriabin is the most difficult of the four by far...
 
#41 ·
For some years I play music instuments Trompet,Trombone,Big Tuba.
But stop playing instuments ,afther some times I got the feeling to make muziek still
So I find a way to make music still.
For me its on a computer now,so if I got tunes or something in my head put it sound the become music.
I know real playing is more fun but can't find the corect peopele any more.
And my level of playing are not high.
So still a amateur in making music but I like it.
Some music are there for helping people out to find a way to make music and having fun to do that.
On this link you can find a classic way of music that people are making today.
Its a group that I have made for people that like classic music around the world.
This group share music what the have made.

So other people can find away to make classic music from out the feelings in real still.
 
#42 ·
What's up, this is my first post here and I'll probably be here a lot. I play the classical guitar.

I'm really struggling with the very beginning of Rite of Spring.
Here's the sheet:
file:///home/chronos/user/Downloads/Stravinsky_-_RiteOfSpring_OrchScore.pdf
Here's the music:
http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~howe/music784/Stravinsky Sacre-1.mp3

When the horn comes in at the second measure, it's playing a C# then D then C#, INSTEAD of G# then A then G# like it says in the sheet music. Is the sheet music wrong or what?
 
#43 ·
When the horn comes in at the second measure, it's playing a C# then D then C#, INSTEAD of G# then A then G# like it says in the sheet music. Is the sheet music wrong or what?
Are you trying to play the Rite of Spring on guitar?

The sheet music is probably not wrong, its most likely that the horn used is a transposable instrument, so it is notated differently than concert pitch. (The guitar is also a transposable instrument notated an octave lower than concert pitch).
 
#45 ·
I am a guitarist as well. Kudos for taking on such a challenge, I've never heard any movements from TROS played on guitar yet...the horn probably is transposed up a 4th for the whole thing.

Here are some standard orchestral instruments that are usually transposed. (though no instruments in my tonal harmony book are transposed by a 4th - doesn't mean its something not in here, as guitars aren't in this book either. )

Bb clarinet - transposed ^ a M2
Alto sax - ^ a M6
Tenor sax - ^ a M9
French horn - ^ a P5
Bb trumpet - ^ a M2
Bass - ^ a P8
 
#46 ·
Haha I should have said I'm just trying to play the individual parts. I'm slowly starting back playing after a hiatus. Thank you very much for the help.

Although that does remind me, I've been wondering how easily you could buy an 8 or 10 string classical guitar already made (as opposed to commissioning one). I don't think I've ever seen a classical guitar with more than 6 strings in person.

Would you say that 8 strings would significantly help with what it can play? I should probably post this in a different section.
 
#48 ·
Because I'm on break now and don't have much to do, I went to the library yesterday and checked out a bunch of German lieder, which I'm sight reading, playing piano (on the songs that are within my technical ability) and singing in terrible American-inflected German. :) Frauenliebe und Leben, Winterreise, Kindertotenlieder, Songs of a Wayfarer. I only do it when my family's not home.
 
#50 · (Edited)
Concert last week:
Mozart's 1st Symphony, Jupiter and his "Little Night Music" serenade, with Leopold's Bechtesgardener Symphony thrown in for good measure.

Starting on a new programme (concerts will be mid-November):
Poulenc, "Gloria (pour Soprano solo, Choeur mixte et Orchestre)" - much, much, much easier than expected! I could sight-read it in tempo.
Mendelssohn, Psalm 114, "Da Israel aus Ägypten zog" - Haven't played it yet, but it doesn't look too challenging
Finally, a Brahms' Motette - I don't have the score as of now

To come:
Brahms, Symphony No. 3
Bartok, Viola Concerto :D
and something I can't recall atm...

Plus Mozart's Requiem as a secondary project.

Oh, my! Lots to do 'til February.
 
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