What Piano Pieces Should I Work on Next?

I did it! I did my piano recital! I messed up a few times, but I made somebody in the audience teary-eyed with my Ravel, sooooo, mission accomplished! Heh heh... anyway, it's never too early to be thinking about what you want to play next! Especially when you're like me and you're really slow at learning piano pieces.
Anyway, I have a few contenders, and I want you all to listen and say which you like best! You know, if you feel like it, I'm not forcing anybody, haha!

So I'm really into French piano music, mostly because it's super beautiful, but also because it's pretty much all I can really play. My teacher wants me to play something Russian next semester, so if anybody knows a Russian piece that is about intermediate difficulty... yes. Please tell me.

La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin by Claude Debussy
I love this piece! I have a recording of Jean-Pierre Rampal playing it on flute, and it made me really fall in love with the piece. The original piano version looks do-able for me, even through some of the chords are very big. The melody is very beautiful, and it's not that long, so I think it will be something to look at.



Humoresque no. 7 by Antonin Dvorak
I've loved this piece every since my sister played a violin version of it for her recital a few years ago! The piano version is very relaxing and beautiful, whereas the violin version sounded a little bit more goofy, haha. As the name indicates, the piece goes through many different humors. There are three basic melodies, the first being goofy and energetic, the second being sentimental and loving, and the third being emotional and intense. I think this one is easier than the Debussy, but it's in a very tricky key signature and I have trouble getting used to it.



Je te Veux by Erik Satie
I could definitely play this one. The only thing is that my teacher is kind of tired of me and my French music. I figured I would learn it over Christmas break, though, because I am just so fond of it! It's a waltz, and it's very romantic. The title means 'I Want You', and listening to it makes me feel like I've stepped through a portal to a parlor in Paris, in the early 1900s... I would love to play it and make people feel the same way!


Romeo and Juliet Before Parting by Sergei Prokofiev
Okay, this one is absolutely NOT easy. But I'm an extremely determined person. About a year ago, I started working on it just because I loved the ballet so much, and now I can play almost half of this piece! I think if I really pushed myself and built up technical skill, I could do it. Probably not for the spring semester, but sometime in the future!

Violence and Variations by Bear McCreary
This song is from the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, which I watched last summer (skipping the nasty parts, of course, haha), and I thought the story was extremely good. That was augmented of course, by the amazing soundtrack! Seriously, if you think that modern music is awful, try Bear McCreary, his music is very accessible. I have a piano book of Battlestar Galactica music, and I have so many I want to play, but I chose this one, because despite the fact that it's a whopping seven minutes long, I find it one of the least technically challenging songs in the book. This piece is intense and so beautiful. Listen to the original version with the string orchestra, it's one of the most amazing 21st century pieces ever.