Your top three pieces in the C19th and C20th

[eddie92099]

What are your top three pieces in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? Mine are:

19th Century:
1. Liszt: Sonata in B minor
2. Dvorak: Symphony no.9
3. Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor

20th Century:
1. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no.2
2. Ravel: Piano Concerto in D minor for the left hand
3. Bartok: Sonata for 2 pianos and percussion

(They do change every day though!)

Ed  

[thracozaag]

What are your top three pieces in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? Mine are:

19th Century:
1. Liszt: Sonata in B minor
2. Dvorak: Symphony no.9
3. Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor

20th Century:
1. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no.2
2. Ravel: Piano Concerto in D minor for the left hand
3. Bartok: Sonata for 2 pianos and percussion

(They do change every day though!)

Ed  

 Agree 1000% with the Ravel.  ;

[eddie92099]

Hmmm...I would like to add one more piece to the C20th list...

Shostakovich: Oktober (Symphonic Poem)

How could I forget this? - I am transcribing it  ,
Ed

[meiting]

Bartok 3rd piano concerto for 20th c.

[Noah]

19th century:

Tchaïkovsky - Violin Concerto
Mendelssohn - Piano Trio n.1 in D minor
Schubert - Arpeggione Sonata

20th century:

Bartok - Piano concerto n.3
Shostakovich - String Quartet n.8
Ravel - Piano concerto in G

[la_carrenio2003]

19th:
1. Brahms: 2nd concerto
2. Schumann: Noveletten op. 21
3. Chopin: The impromptus

20th:
1. Prokofieff: 8th sonata
2. Shostakovich: Preludes & fugues
3. Prokofieff: 5th concerto