Interactive Solo Keyboard Works Game (Selection Round)

[Sammy]

We are going to select 30 keyboard works for an eventual voting game.  The basic selection requirement is that the work be a complete one.  Parts of complete works such as Claire de Lune are not allowed; if it has a mom, it doesn't count.  Also, groupings of complete works do not count, so Bach's English Sutes (6) would not be allowed.  Of course, there will be times when the lines are blurred, so I'll likely be making a few semi-executive decisions.  No works for solo organ.

Selection Rules:

1.  You may select one or two works on a daily basis.

2.  Once you have selected a particular work, you may not pick that work again - it's one and done.

3.  If and when that work is selected by two fellow game participants, it will be game ready.

My two picks for today:

Bach - Goldberg Variations
Haydn - Piano Sonata no. 58

[San Antone]

Liszt - Sonata in B minor
Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit

[Mahlerian]

Bach - Goldberg Variations
Debussy - Etudes

[ritter]

Yay! A new game!!! 

I propose:

Albéniz - Suite "Iberia"
Enescu - Sonata No. 3 for Piano in D major, Op. 24 No. 3

[Baron Scarpia]

Chopin Ballade No 1 Op 23
Bach, Partita No 2, BWV826

[Gurn Blanston]

Haydn - Variations in f minor Hob 17:6

Mozart - Fantasia in c minor K 475

[GioCar]

Beethoven - Diabelli Variations
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition

"there will be times when the lines are blurred"
So what about WTC book1/book2?

[Florestan]

Schubert - Piano Sonata D960
Schumann - Kinderszenen

[SymphonicAddict]

Brahms - Variations and Fugue on a theme by Händel, op. 24
Prokofiev - Piano sonata No. 7

[Sammy]

Selections:
Albéniz - Suite "Iberia" (1)
Bach - Goldberg Variations (2)
Bach - Partita no. 2, BWV 826 (1)
Beethoven - Diabelli Variations (1)
Brahms - Variations and Fugue on a theme by Händel, op. 24 (1)
Chopin - Ballade no. 1 op. 23 (1)
Debussy - Etudes (1)
Enescu - Sonata no. 3 for Piano in D major (1)
Haydn - Piano Sonata no. 58 (1)
Haydn - Variations in F minor, Hob. 17:6 (1)
Liszt - Sonata in B minor (1)
Mozart - Fantasia in C minor, K 475 (1)
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (1)
Prokofiev - Piano Sonata no. 7 (1)
Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit (1)
Schubert - Piano Sonata D 960 (1)
Schumann - Kinderszenen (1)

[Sergeant Rock]

Mozart - Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331
Bach - Partita no. 2, BWV 826

[Sammy]

"there will be times when the lines are blurred"
So what about WTC book1/book2?

Almost forgot to answer the above question.  Bach's WTC is my favorite music, period.  What I would do is select - WTC (complete).  However, some might prefer Bk. 1 being a separate entry than Bk. 2.  For voting purposes, I think each book would suffer if entered as 2 works.

[Jo498]

If one book of the Well-tempered Clavier counts as "one" piece, than all six Partitas by Bach should also. Or Beethoven's op.10 or op.31. I think this gives an unwelcome advantage to such collections.

[Sammy]

If one book of the Well-tempered Clavier counts as "one" piece, than all six Partitas by Bach should also. Or Beethoven's op.10 or op.31. I think this gives an unwelcome advantage to such collections.

Would you treat the prelude and fugue in C major of Bk. 1 as one complete work?

[Florestan]

I think large collections should be treated as one work only if originally published as such. For instance, WTC Bk I should be different than WTC Bk II and so should be the three years of Annees de pelerinages.

[André]

Schubert: sonata no 20 in A, D. 959
Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano

[Baron Scarpia]

I think large collections should be treated as one work only if originally published as such. For instance, WTC Bk I should be different than WTC Bk II and so should be the three years of Annees de pelerinages.

That is a sensible rule which, as usual, will produce some anomalous results. The 6 Partitas were published separately, so they are distinct. But do we really consider a set of three Beethoven Piano Sonatas a single work because they were published together? Probably we need to incorporate some discretion, making the rule "published together and forming an indivisible whole." The WTC seems be be "indivisible" to some extent, since spanning all of the keys is the point of it. But that is a grey area. It is hard to compare works that vary so widely in scope.

Up to Bulldog, of course.

[Sammy]

Selections:
Albéniz - Suite "Iberia" (1)
Bach - Goldberg Variations (2)
Bach - Partita no. 2, BWV 826 (2)
Beethoven - Diabelli Variations (1)
Brahms - Variations and Fugue on a theme by Händel, op. 24 (1)
Cage - Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano (1)
Chopin - Ballade no. 1 op. 23 (1)
Debussy - Etudes (1)
Enescu - Sonata no. 3 for Piano in D major (1)
Haydn - Piano Sonata no. 58 (1)
Haydn - Variations in F minor, Hob. 17:6 (1)
Liszt - Sonata in B minor (1)
Mozart - Fantasia in C minor, K 475 (1)
Mozart - Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331 (1)
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (1)
Prokofiev - Piano Sonata no. 7 (1)
Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit (1)
Schubert - Piano Sonata D 959 (1)
Schubert - Piano Sonata D 960 (1)
Schumann - Kinderszenen (1)

[Sammy]

Semi-executive decisions:

1.  Bach's WTC Bk. 1 is one work; Bk. 2 is one work.  Separating them really goes against the grain but I'm doing this as a compromise. 

2.  The same applies to the 3 parts of Liszt's Annees.....

 

[Sammy]

Too bad about the WTC since it will split the vote for what would otherwise be a very competitive work.  There is such a thing as overthinking these games.

Not blaming you, Sammy; you were just responding to the rabble.

While I appreciate your consideration, please do not use unflattering words to describe other GMG gamers.  We are all in this together and it's best to present a united front.