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Title: Greatest pieces in piano?
Post by: silversteel on June 11, 2012, 06:21:44 PM: In your opinions and popular opinion, what are the greatest pieces ever composed for piano?

My favorite is Chopin Ballade #4 Op. 52.
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Post by: sophie117 on June 16, 2012, 06:11:47 AM: Brahms opp 116-119
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Post by: philb on June 16, 2012, 08:25:19 AM: Off the top of my head...

Copland - Sonata
Copland - Passacaglia
Barber - Sonata
Barber - Concerto
Barber - Excursions
Bartok - Sonata SZ. 80
Bartok - Suite op. 14
Bartok - Concertos
Bartok - Etudes Op. 18
Boulez - Sonata 1
Boulez - Notations
Barraque - Sonata
Barraque - Concerto
Ginastera - Sonatas no. 1, 3
Ginastera - Concerto no. 1
Dutilleux - Sonata
Berg - Sonata Op. 1
Xenakis - Herma
Xenakis - Mists
Scriabin - Sonatas 5, 7, 8, 10 (Or all of them, including the Allegro Appasionato and the unpublished sonata fantasie)
Scriabin - Preludes Op. 74
Scriabin - Preludes Op. 11
Scriabin - Op. 72
Scriabin - Concerto Op. 20
Scriabin - Etudes Op. 65
Scriabin - Poems
Ligeti - Etudes Book 1, 2
Ligeti - Musica Ricercata

That's only scratching the surface. This list could possibly go on forever...
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Post by: jkosmic on July 16, 2012, 09:41:35 AM: To me, the most special piano piece would be Rhapsody in Blue, its as close to perfection as you can get!!. Of course its not the most difficult piece, of course its not the most emotional or breathtaking piece, but ask anybody who plays the piano, witch piece is the most fun to play?, they will tell you Rhapsody in blue!!! I can play Hungarian Rhapsody #2 and Chopins Ballade #1, BUT NONE OF THEM FEEL LIKE RHAPSODY IN BLUE!!,, ITS THE PERFECT BLEND BETWEEN CLASSICAL AND JAZZ! believe me, its not even close!
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Post by: danhuyle on July 16, 2012, 11:53:40 AM: Liszt Sonata - the monument of the 19th Century.

Albeniz Triana from Iberia book 2.
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Post by: shubertimproviz on July 16, 2012, 12:15:35 PM: Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies
Grand Galop Chromatique
Piano Concertos;
Annees de Pèlerinage
Transcriptions
Reminiscenes de Don Juan
Rigoletto paraphrase
Transcendental Etudes;
Grandes Etudes de Paganini;
Concert Etudes,etc;
Sonata (actually I like all pieces composed by Liszt)
THE LIST OF LISZT PIECES (1300 PIECES) COULD NEVER END.
And here are some Chopin:
Ballades;
Piano Concertos;
'Heroic' polonaise;
Grande polonaise brillante op.22;
Nocturnes; Etudes; Mazurkas; Preludes.
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Post by: zezhyrule on July 16, 2012, 12:21:25 PM: Liszt: Funerailles

I'm just in love with this piece lately ;D
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Post by: asuhayda on July 16, 2012, 04:03:20 PM: Two of my favorite pieces to play:

Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody #13
Rachmaninoff - Sonata No.2 (especially the 2nd movement)
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Post by: perprocrastinate on July 16, 2012, 04:53:46 PM: Aside from my obsession with the Chopin Etudes and the respective Godowsky transcriptions, Alkan wrote some great music.

Three of his greatest works in my opinion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trois_morceaux_dans_le_genre_path%C3%A9tique

and who could forget:
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Post by: unholeee on July 16, 2012, 06:08:11 PM: far too many. i just first heard ravel last week. you can not see my piano under all the music sheets :X

rach prelude in b minor though.
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Post by: redbaron on July 16, 2012, 10:16:28 PM: Balakirev - Toccata
Bolcom - The Serpent's Kiss
Brahms - Ballade Op 10, No 1
Brahms - Rhapsody in G minor
Brahms - Intermezzo Op 119, No 3
Chopin - Raindrop Prelude
Debussy - La cathedrale engloutie
Glass - 'Satyagraha' from Trilogy Sonata
Liszt - La Campanella
Mendelssohn - Song Without Words Op 67, No 2
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition
Rachmaninov - Etude Op 33, No 4
Rachmaninov - Prelude Op 23, No 5
Ravel - Le Gibet
Scriabin - Etude Op 42, No 7
Sibelius - Sonata in F
Sibelius - Finlandia (piano version)
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Post by: j_menz on July 16, 2012, 11:58:33 PM: Fuer Elise
Chopsticks
4'33
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Post by: david456103 on July 17, 2012, 01:21:45 AM: Reminiscences De Don Juan is in my opinion the GREATEST
Other great works:
1. Heroic Polonaise
2. Polonaise in F# minor
3. Polonaise-Fantasy
4. Andante Spiniato and Grand Polonaise Brillante(obviously I'm into polonaises lol)
5. Ballades 1, 3, 4
6. Concert Paraphrase Rigoletto
7. Sonata in B minor
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Post by: davidjosepha on July 17, 2012, 02:28:50 AM: Quote from: j_menz on July 16, 2012, 11:58:33 PM
Fuer Elise
Chopsticks
4'33
Well, I can play two of the three anyway!
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Post by: rachmaninoff_forever on July 17, 2012, 02:49:53 AM: Everything by Scriabin, almost everything by Rachmaninoff.
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Post by: j_menz on July 17, 2012, 03:19:24 AM: Quote from: rachmaninoff_forever on July 17, 2012, 02:49:53 AM
almost everything by Rachmaninoff.

:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
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Post by: rachmaninoff_forever on July 17, 2012, 03:38:37 AM: Quote from: j_menz on July 17, 2012, 03:19:24 AM
:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o

I really hate his prelude in Op. 23 No. 2 and the one in Op. 3 No. 2 C# minor!

Absolutely terrible! >:(

ALMOST as much as I hate Bach!
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Post by: synthifou on July 17, 2012, 06:45:12 AM: No 'Bells of Moscow' for you, eh? No. 5 in g from Op. 23 always irritated me.
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Post by: rachmaninoff_forever on July 17, 2012, 07:10:11 PM: Quote from: synthifou on July 17, 2012, 06:45:12 AM
No 'Bells of Moscow' for you, eh? No. 5 in g from Op. 23 always irritated me.

I wasn't much of a fan of that one either until I heard a recording from Horowitz.