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This makes for an excellent chance to trudge out of a composing hiatus. So I hope to be up to the task.

That's exactly why I did never use recordings as a basis for automatic "scoring". Well, that plus the fact that I am no pianist at all. Anyway, I thank the original poster. I was considering a piano reduction of a choral/orchestral piece as a rehersal tool precisely these days, and found your questions quite useful.

This kind of discussion belongs to the "Repertoire" section. I'm moving it at once.

I just realized this thread was posted in the wrong place, and moved it to the Repertoire, where it seems to belong.

Quite possibly - although Lutoslawski has his fine moments to be fair. I seriously believe I can never get tired of Tchaikovsky - but honestly I have to switch from one piece to another, and perhaps find something I haven't heard before from him (don't take me back to 1812!)

For once, I actually saw a contest before the deadline! I'm a bit rusty now, but will give a long (short) look before taking a chance...

Glad to see there is actually an active thread.

Upon request of a fellow YC member, here's the complete Sonata with its three movements. I must admit that the first movement is my personal favorite - but I'll say no more, preferring to stand by for your comments. Thanks in advance!

Its contributors are only as good as their availability. Hopefully I'll be checking up more often.

Missed it again ...

@Luis Hernández: thanks for the heads up. I tried to install better sound libraries, but so far I've failed miserably. Perhaps I should stay composing rather than play my hand as a sound engineer @Kvothe: I must commend you for your continued support. Of course, the work is modeled after the Russian master's own takes on Shakespeare. I hope I had a convincing result as well, since Julius Caesar happens to be among my favorite plays. Perhaps the piece is much more complex than other works of mine, but I spared no effort nonetheless.

It's a pity that none of it ever reached Beethoven himself.

Indeed, I can hardly tolerate overplayed music of any kind. I particularly dislike over-pretentious Latin Jazz and most pop music - except for Romantic ballads. I'm ambivalent about jazz in general - it's as if I should love it because I love classical as well, but I can't. I don't even get the relationship. I am also supposed to like modernist, avant-garde music, because we all must like that (or at least fake it) to get any kind of credibility as serious musicians - but I hate it, and I know most people hate it as well despite the snobbery. I could go on and on...

My own works

A step in the right direction. I guess you might want to raise the musical tension according to the emotional intensity of the speech.