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The last discussion I proposed has lit up several bulbs; I would like to know on what basis an interpreter chooses their repertoire. Obviously, I am not referring to school age, but when the dreaded studies are finished and one must go around playing and performing concerts.
How did you proceed? What are the deciding factors? Etc.
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I think I would proceed in the following hierarchical order:
- technical limits
- taste
- money
That is, pieces that I must be able to play as I want and that must please me; then if there were "strange" requests that involve a large income... well, one works to eat... right?
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Preferences, abilities and the market.
That being said, every repertoire has a "path", at least in my opinion... if you want to play Xenakis, I think you must primarily have a "transcendent" technique, and therefore Liszt probably shouldn't be precisely unknown to you... but I am not a pianist, so these examples might be off
The great pianists of today, however, have very vast repertoires, and they have chosen them to highlight their own characteristics. And if you look closely, you find things for all tastes in the classical repertoire, as well as in the romantic, post-romantic, and contemporary (and beyond...)
