MALTA INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION 2018
Repertoire
The competition will be in three Rounds:
70 Participants – Solo recital of 20 minutes which must include:
1. One Prelude & Fugue from the Well-Tempered Clavier (Book I or II) by J.S. Bach;
2. At least one (or more) Etude by Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt,
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin or Claude Debussy;
3. One composition (could be one part of a larger work) by Maltese composer Joseph Vella;*
* List of compositions and scores available to download from here.
40 Participants – Solo recital of 50 minutes which must include:
1. One complete sonata by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven or Franz Schubert;
2. At least one (or more) composition by Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn
or Cesar Franck;
3. At least one (or more) composition written in the XX century;
4. Three pieces from “Images from the Great Siege”*
by Maltese Composer Alexey Shor at competitor’s choice;
* List of compositions and scores available to download from here.
6 Finalists will perform one piano concerto
accompanied by orchestra chosen from the list below:
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 or 5
Frederic Chopin – Piano Concertos Nos. 1 or 2
Robert Schumann – Piano Concerto
Edward Grieg – Piano Concerto
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No.1
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No.2
or Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini
Sergei Prokofiev – Piano Concertos Nos. 2 or 3
Aram Khachaturian – Piano Concerto
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