What is a good contrasting piece to Ballade No. 1 in G Minor by Chopin?
I am assuming that you are entering a piano competition or festival and need to play two contrasting pieces. The first question is so full of “wrong answers” and bad advice I felt that I was about to read a suggestion that you play a Yiruma piece. The G minor Ballade is such a wonderful work – if you can pull this off, you will make a grand impression on the judges. I would suggest two things – actually, these were things I played when I played the Ballade: the Mozart sonata in B flat, K.333 or Debussy prelude “La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune”. Both of these are somewhat technically demanding and the Debussy is especially demanding musically. I played these three pieces on my college junior recital, along with the Ravel Sonatine and Debussy “La puerta del Vino”.
