Initial selection
Please select 2 pieces from groups (A) and (B) listed below, and record them onto a CD (or a cassette, a MD, a DAT).
※DVD and videotape format are not permitted.
Please write your name, the names of the pieces and the date and the recording location on it.
The recording must have been made after the 1st Sept. 2008
(A) Chopin: 1 piece from either Etude Op.10 or Op.25
(B) Scarlatti: 1 piece from Sonata
Round 1
You will be required to play pieces from each of the groups listed below (A), (B), and (C). The performance time should be no more than 20 minutes in total.
(A) 1 piece from Bach's "The Well-Tempered Clavier", vol.Ⅰ or vol.Ⅱ
(B) 1 study piece by Chopin, Liszt, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Stravinsky or Prokofiev
(C) the 1st movement from any sonata by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Clementi
Round 2
You will be required to play pieces from each of the groups listed below (A), (B), and (C). The performance time should be no more than 40 minutes in total.
(A) The remainder of the sonata which you performed for Round 1
(B) Piece(s) of your choice by Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Schubert, Chopin, or Liszt
(You may choose pieces by multiple composers. In the case of a sonata,
you may choose which movement(s) to play)
(C) 1 piece of your choice by Debussy, Faure, Ravel, Granados, Albeniz, or de Falla
Round 3
You will be required to play both (A) and (B).
(A) The piece commissioned for this competition (about 6 minutes in length)
Commissioned Composer for this competition: Ken FUJIMITSU
*We will send the musical score to contestants three months before the competition.
You may not perform this piece publicly before this competition.
(B) Mozart (1 concerto of your choice from the list below,
to be performed with the chamber instruments)
Piano Concerto No.11 in F major K.413
Piano Concerto No.12 in A major K.414
Piano Concerto No.13 in C major K.415
Piano Concerto No.14 in Eb major K.449
Final
1 concerto of your choice from the list below to be performed with orchestral accompaniment
Beethoven:
Piano Concerto No.1 in C major Op.15
Piano Concerto No.2 in Bb major Op.19
Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor Op.37
Piano Concerto No.4 in G major Op.58
Piano Concerto No.5 in Eb major Op.73 (Emperor)
Chopin:
Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor Op.11
Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor Op.21
Schumann:
Piano Concerto in A minor Op.54
Liszt:
Piano Concerto No.1 in Eb major
Piano Concerto No.2 in A major
Saint-Saëns:
Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor Op.22
Piano Concerto No.4 in C minor Op.44
Piano Concerto No.5 in F major Op.103
Tchaikovsky:
Piano Concerto No.1 in Bb minor Op.23
Rachmaninoff:
Piano Concerto No.1 in F# minor Op.1
Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor Op.18
Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor Op.30
*Notes
- All performances must be from memory.
- All performances will be open to the general public.
- Parts of the piece may be cut for time purposes at the discretion of the jury.
- Please inform the Takamatsu International Piano Competition Office of any changes to your programme (E-mail:info@tipc.jp / Fax:＋81-87-812-5584). Any changes must be confirmed by 15th Feb.(Mon) 2010.