i've got a PIANO and i'm going to use it

in the spirit of my current showing-off-all-the-time mode/mood, here -- six months after piano got tuned -- are the pieces i am "teachin" myself (bad habits and all)

i. satie gnossienne no.1 (super-easy finger-wise but there's that odd why-is-this-harder-than-it-seems tweak satie always nips in)
ftb dr vick asked from some satie!

ii. bach rondeau from orchestral suite no.2 arr. e. markham lee (easy except for this bit i have got wrong so often my fingers have learnt the wrong)
ftb i really like it and can basically play it correctly and nicely (except when it goes wrong!!) -- the only ENTIRELY NEW PIECE i learnt to play OK since the piano arrived

iii. chopin prelude in d flat (under my fingers from 30 years occasional playing except the little florid twiddly bits which have gone jellied with age -- and maybe i cd never do em that well, tho i played this in public at least once)
ftb i did the heavy lifting on this years ago -- weird thing i don't recall the learning process of ANY of these pieces i can play which iare so obviously beyond my current reading skills!

iv. the CAN CAN by jacques offenbach (really quite easy but currently beyond my specific motor skills)
ftb i am RUBBISH at keepin time (i go all hem hem ROMANTIC RUBATO at the hard bits, and back over myself when i make an error): i need to get the discipline of JUST KEEPING GOING

v. debussy clair de lune (under my fingers with some clumsy bits -- again i've been playin it for 30 years but never really worked at the bits i stumble through)
ftb cf iii. really -- it's a nice piece to play which everyone knows

vi. magnetic rag by scott joplin (the kind of music i was never good at and never worked at: sustained mechanical rhythm i am just SO BAD AT)
ftb it wz a stumbling block when i wz 17 (and i really like the jauntiness and lopsideness)

vii. berceuse from dolly op.56 by fauré = the listen with mother themetune! (easy enough formally, but has distinctly testing dexterity element i wd like to crack)
ftb dr vick put in a weird request by text whether i had it on CD (i didn't) and i found it in the sheet-music shop the same day

viii. schubert klaviersonate op42 a moll (really pretty hard but not i think beyond me WITH A COUPLE OF THOUSAND YEARS PRACTICE)
ftb i studied it for a-level music in 1977 and have always loved it -- there's bits of it remind me of my mum's parents' little music boxes (schubert is a composer who effortlessly delivers passages i love followed by passages that seem to me really straight and dull and obvious, like he was afraid to throw away the structure even when it was LAME)

ix. bach fugue no.1 in c (so intricate! is it the hardest of the fugues? i feel getting this down would be a real achievement)
ftb mastering seems like a good solid milestone to judge how i'm doing this year (i am nowhere near mastering it, though page one -- the easy page -- has only a couple of dreadful hesitation/scrobble-it-up points now) (page 2 is 1xBITCH)

x. chopin minute waltz (just fun and fast -- rhythm probably the problem, and at the moment when i run both hands together at speed they start playing at DIFFERENT speeds which is not great)
ftb it wd be cool if i could just sit down anywhere and play this: IT'S JUST 1XMINUTE long -- HAHA THO more like 15 the way i am currently playing)

xi. o polichinelo from prole do bêbê by heitor villa-lobos (sounds impossible, actually very deceptive -- the trick will be getting the SHORT bits i can do fine jigsawed together at speed, which will requires LOTS of QUITE BORING practice) (poor old downstairs neighbour)
ftb it SOUNDS way more fantastically ambitious and difficult and impressive than it actually is (i think)!

xii. webern klavierstuck op.post (trick is getting yr fingers to do really unintuitive stuff -- they have harmonic training which is hard to shake off -- which i thini means getting yr mind to grasp the structure)
ftb i adore webern and genuinely think this piece is in reach

xiii. berg klaviersonate op 1 [very extremely hard - esp.at the speed i have it on CD! -- tho really not like virtuoso hard anywhere, mainly just hard to get yr mind round why the notes are where they are]
ftbi am not really AT ALL a fan of this kind of post-wagner WTF music so i thort it wd do me good to explore some