Your favorite piece....

[randmc]

Even though I'm guessing a thread similar to this has already been posted , I would be interested in knowing what some of you guys favorite piano piece is.

[Waldszenen]

Debussy's Passepied from Suite Bergamasque

[llamaman]

Something Debussy. 1st Arabesque, or as said before, Passepied.

Maybe Chopin or Beethoven as well: Valse in A minor, Pathetique 2nd movement.

[quantum]

The top two for me:
silence and noise. 

Other than that, I love composers who can make a beautiful instrument like the piano sound ruccous and vulgar as well as sweet and sublime. 

[Bouter Boogie]

Debussy's Passepied from Suite Bergamasque

Debussy's Passepied is very cool!

As for me, my favorite piano piece at the moment, that's a tough one.. I guess I'd go for Ravel's Pavane pour une infante defunte.

- BB

[Etude]

Opus Clavicembalisticum.

[thalbergmad]

Mine changes on a daily basis.

At the moment it is the Tausig-Weber invitation to the dance, because i am re-learning it.

[prometheus]

At this moment Bach Busoni BWV 532, the fuge and Sorabji Toccata No.1 because of the great recording.

[nanabush]

Waldstein Sonata or Ravel Tocatta from Tombeau de Couperin or Liszt Gnomengriegen or Waldeschraushen (lotsa favs)

[lisztisforkids]

Ravel tocata very cool, but **** hard!

[Waldszenen]

Debussy's Passepied is very cool!

As for me, my favorite piano piece at the moment, that's a tough one.. I guess I'd go for Ravel's Pavane pour une infante defunte.

- BB

I really love the Pavane as well (as long as it's the piano version not the orchestral one, yuck, too thick texture)

[nicko124]

Ravel - Jeux d'eau

[Mozartian]

changes *quite* frequently.
atm though-
Beethoven: Waldstein and Tempest sonatas
Schubert: Wandererrrrrrrr fantasy (it's so bloody awesomely cool!)
Mozart: Variations on "Ah, vous dirai-Je, maman", K.265; Sonata K. 310 and whichever of the sonatas has the first movement with variations.

(yup... totally in a classical phase. it rules.)

[Bouter Boogie]

I really love the Pavane as well (as long as it's the piano version not the orchestral one, yuck, too thick texture)

I agree with that. The piano version is gorgeous, the orchestral one isn't.

Mine changes on a daily basis.

Mine too actually

- BB

[infectedmushroom]

Franz Liszt - Mazeppa



And I like a lot of game music too. My favorite game music piece is from Final Fantasy, called To Zanarkand.

[Waldszenen]

I love Final Fantasy music too - Nobuo Uematsu's a brilliant composer.

[phil13]

...and whichever of the sonatas has the first movement with variations.

K.331, FYI.

Hmmm, which ones are my favs?

At the moment:

Grieg Ballade on a Norwegian Folk Song in G minor Op.24
Grieg Sonata in E minor Op.7 esp. the 4th mvt.
Scriabin Nocturne for the Left Hand Alone
Scriabin Etude Op.2 No.1 in C# minor
Chopin Piano Concerto in E minor Op.11
Bach 2-part Invention No.14 in B-flat major

And out of my compositions:

Sonata for Piano and Violin in D major 2nd mvt.
and
11 Variations on an Arietta in G minor.

Will probably change soon.

Phil

[nanabush]

My new list of favs, changed already 

Ravel Toccata (I doubt this will ever change)
Liszt Dante Sonata
Chopin Sonata in B flat Minor
Brahms Rhapsody in G (I'm currently learning, I love the piece!)

It's gonna change in like 3 days...

[pill]

Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata
Liszt's Dante Sonata and Totentanz
Rachmaninov's Etudes-Tableaux Op. 39 No. 6, Preludes Op. 32 No. 12, Piano Concerto 2
Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit, Jeux d'eau, Piano Concerto in G
Chopin's Winter Wind Etude, Ocean Etude

Too much good music!

[Jacey1973]

Thanks to whoever posted the Chopin competition thread - i just heard the most amazing piece on one of the links from that site:

"Chaconne" by Krzysztof Penderecki - i just found out it was only premiered this year - so i can't get a recording of it yet 

To hear it i clicked on the top picture on the right link (160-1200Kbps) on:

https://www.itvp.pl/chopin/chopin_en/

Give it a listen! I've already ordered my first Penderecki CD off amazon after hearing this! I only had heard the Stabat Mater beforehand.

[Jacey1973]

Mine changes on a daily basis.

At the moment it is the Tausig-Weber invitation to the dance, because i am re-learning it.

That is so true for me too - see my above post!

[xaos]

Erlkonig.

[kelly_kelly]

A lot of my favorite pieces are overplayed, so please forgive me.

Rhapsody in Blue
Chopin: Etudes 10-8, 25-2, 25-11, Fantasie Impromptu, Nocturne No, 8 in D-Flat
Liszt: Consolations, La Campanella
Debussy: Prelude Bk. 2 No. 8, Arabesque No. 1, Passepied from Suite Bergmasque

 

[classicarts]

My favorite piece at this moment is Jesu by Bach , and Nocturne in Ebm by chopin.

[perfect_pitch]

Erlkonig.

That is a damn good lieder.

One day, a singer was singing Standchen by Schubert... and she had one of the harpsichord teachers accompany (he was playing piano in this particular instance), and the astonishing thing is, he looks exactly like Schubert, if schubert were alive today.

[Kassaa]

Brahms 2, Waldstein. Period.

[lau]

Fantasie Impromptu. I don't know that many pieces though. It seems like everybody hates the Fantasie Impromptu and are sick of it. But I have heard the peice literally 2000 times and can't get enough of it. I play it about 20 times a day.

[jehangircama]

chopin: fantasie impromptu, fantasie in F minor, ballade no.1 scherzo no.2, sonatas 2 and 3, all the waltzes, some nocturnes heroic and military polonaise, G flat etude, op10 no.4, revolutionary.
brahms: op 118 no.2 a major intermezzo and capriccio in C sharp minor (i think)
beethoven: les adieux, waldstein, appasionata, tempest, pathetique, moonlight, rage over a lost penny.
mozart: twinkle variations and k 331
LISZT: HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY NUMBER 2 , eugene onegin paraphrase, nightingale transcription, HR 6
schubert: g flat impromptu.
dumka (tchaik) and islamey.
concertos are another list
this is atm, however. keeps changing. can't think of more atm.

[pseudopianist]

Hamelin - Prelude and Fugue
Sorabji - Gulistan
Chopin - G minor Ballade and 2nd movments from the piano conerti
Bach - Eveything

[donjuan]

Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 2

musically, head and shoulders above so much else he wrote, imo

[amanfang]

Liebermann - Gargoyles
Bach-Busoni - Chaconne in d minor

[danyal]

I have far too many to list here... but the one thats at the forefront of my head and heart at the moment (mainly cos I'm practising it now) is the African Fantasy for piano and orchestra by Saint Saens op 89