which pieces helped you most in developing a beautiful tone?

[stevie]

that is, if you have aquired one...

which pieces helped you learn to 'sing' at the piano, and which helped develop your 'voicing' technique the most?

[pabst]

i dunno how well it worked but working on Villa-Lobos' Cirandas helped my voicing, tone and line-singing a lot. It's not difficult and one can spend many hours on it and not get tired. Scriabin Preludes (a few of op. 11) were also easy (some, of course) and not dull at all!

[Floristan]

Bach Inventions.

[chopiabin]

Nocturne op48 #1

most other nocturnes,

Rach's prelude in Bminor (cant think of op.#)

[dbrainiak914]

Chopin 25-1, 25-7 definitely

Liszt Waldesrauschen

Tons of Bach... it really does wonders for your tone

[sonatainfsharp]

Slow movements of Mozart sonatas.

[musik_man]

Brahms Intermezzo in E flat Major op117.2
Bach/Busoni Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland
Schubert/Liszt Auf dem Wasser zu Singen

[arensky]

Singing line; Chopin/Scherzo #2, Mazurka in a minor op.67#4(?). Brahms/Intermezzo in A, op.118 #2, Romance in F, op.118 #5. Mozart/Sonata in a minor K.310(?), mvts. 1 and 2, Sonata in D K.311, mvt. 2. Bach/Concerto in d minor mvt.2

Beautiful tone; Chopin/ Nocturne in c# minor op.27#1, Khachaturian/Toccata, Debussy/Voiles,
Ravel/Oiseaux Tristes, Regarde du Silence/Messiaen, Five Preludes op.74, Poeme op.32 #1/Scriabin

Just looked at what the rest of you wrote, there's a lot of agreement! 

 I feel I have an exceptional tone, and have been told that by listeners both educated ("lovely tone") and "uneducated", sounds snotty, sorry can't think of a synonym ("you have a nice touch, kid")

The singing line on the percussive instrument is the harder of the two challenges imo; some pianists have a horrid tone but sing on the piano like Pavarotti (Schnabel and Serkin immediately come to mind) and others have a tone to make you melt, but are melodically unfocused (Bill Evans, Boris Berman, Pascal Roge immediately come to mind) but of course the ideal is to have both, AND a good technique...

[etudes]

liszt consolations 

[musicsdarkangel]

The Schubert impromptus, and definitely this Chopin Polonaise op 44 I'm playing.

[phil13]

The pieces I'm playing right now.

Scriabin Etude Op.2 No.1

Bach 2-pt. Invention No.14 in B-flat Major

Chopin Etude Op.25 No.1 in A-flat Major

Mozart Sonata in C Minor K.457

All of them are good for beautiful tone, but the Bach is the best for a good singing tone.

[burstroman]

Mendelssohn's Songs without Words or Mozart Sonatas!

[trunks]

Chopin Scherzo No.2, Sonata No.3 (first movement)
Liszt Il Lamento, Un Sospiro, Harmonies du Soir, 3 Sonettos del Petrarca
Beethoven Sonata Pathetique
. . .

[rohansahai]

Any of Bach's fugues, Rachmaninov Prelude in D major op.23-4, Chopin Bercuese and most of the nocturnes .......the list is unending.