If you could hear any composer

[mikeyg]

If you could hear any composer play for you as long as you wished, who wouldit be?  Personally, I've always wanted to hear what Bach would sound like on a modern piano.

[musicsdarkangel]

Liszt.





Liszt.


Actually, I REALLY want to hear Mendelsson as well.

[mikeyg]

Oh yes, I was contemplating bringing back my master, but I figured I could have Bach improvise for me all day.

[Etude]

I'd love to hear either Liszt or Chopin.

[jeremyjchilds]

I'd love to hear Chopin's rubato,

There were caes of trained musicians believing that Chopin was playing in different time signatures, beucause his rubato was so unique.

Everyone probably knew that already, but still, I would like to hear that.

[stormx]

Beethoven and Chopin 

[chozart]

- Bach and Handel

- Chopin and Liszt

- Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven

.. those being grouped by period, of course. Fun to see the similarities and differences
At the top of the "list," I guess I'd place Bach, Mozart, and Liszt.

[thalbergmad]

I would like to see the Liszt-Thalberg duel

[Floristan]

Brahms, then Chopin, then Beethoven.

I'm just very curious how Brahms played Brahms.  I have a recording of him playing one of the waltzes (don't remember whether it was piano roll or early victrola), and it's very intriguing.  Just so curious about a lot...like what sf meant to him.  I think for Brahms, and maybe for all composers, sf means "make this stand out" not "suddenly loud".  Lots of ways to make something stand out from what's around it.  I'm curious about his tempos and a lot of his markings, like the beginning of Op. 119, No. 2: Andantino un poco agitato & then at the beginning "sotto voce" and "dolce".  He does this a lot -- very specific directions that are somehow at the same time very vague.  Like words just can't describe what he wants.  I'd just like to talk to him about it.

Then Chopin, like someone mentioned above, to hear the rubato, and to see what the dynamics sounded like when he played (I'm guessing notched down from what we're used to).

Then Beethoven.  No reason, other than he's the master composer, IMO.

[Barbosa-piano]

 I think Bach would personally play the piano, but I believe he would refuse to play it in public, since one of the professors at organ encounter said he loved the piano when he first played it, but would refuse to play it in public since it was not considered a formal instrument... The piano was considered an instrument for street musicians... 
 I would love to hear Bach play different keyboard instruments (including the piano), maybe Chopin playing on his Pleyel... I've actually had this kind of dream before...

Mario Barbosa

[ted]

Waller and Gershwin most of all I think, but also Morton and James Scott.

[ravel]

debussy, ravel, prokofiev, rachmaninov, lizst , chopin, the list goes onnn

[apion]

I'm just very curious how Brahms played Brahms.  

Yep, same here

[Waldszenen]

I've always wanted to hear Bach or Handel, the two organ masters, improvise on a theme on an organ.


Either those two or Mozart - I'm sure he was great at entertaining on the piano.

[gorbee natcase]

Mozart he has/had charisma