Favorite Piano Piece?

[cerulean]

(Hi, new to this forum!)

If you had to pick ONE OR TWO of your all-time favorite piano compositions, what would they be?

I'm searching for new, interesting, beautiful pieces to play. I would love some recommendations. I just finished a Chopin Nocturne and Fantaisie-Impromptu (which I can say is now a favorite of mine, but was difficult for me...didn't have a teacher).

Thanks

[nicco]

If you just search around this forum a bit youll find a few hundred or so threads about topics like this.

[Waldszenen]

Debussy - Passepied from Suite Bergamasque

[cerulean]

nicco - thanx, i probably should have done that first

Waldszenen - thanks much, i'll look into that

[mevo]

Astor Piazzolla - Adios Nonino (tango-rhapsody)

[moi69]

Schumann-fantaisie in C

[opuswriter]

If you want to play more Chopin and based on that you played a nocturne and Fantasie-impromptu, you might want to try the Ballade in G minor op.23 and the Preludes op.28. The Ballade helped me to develop "Chopin technique" when I started playing Chopin and is simply beautiful. The preludes op.28 is very interesting since you have a little bit of everything that is Chopin condensed into a universe of twenty-four preludes, all with their different sound and character. A very good starting point before going further into the larger works. My favourites are nos. 3, 8, 15, 16, 19 and 24.

// Jason Lee

[cerulean]

i'm a bit late, but thanks guys. i liked the passepied, so i'm working on it.
schumann fantaisie - tried it, but not really for me.
the ballad op.23 is actually one i've liked for a long time, but 's quite an undertaking. i'll see if i'm up to it.

couldn't find the Adios Nonino sheets, though

[chopinfan_22]

I like pretty much anything by Chopin. My two favorite works he has written are the Ballade Op. 23 in G Minor, and the Etude Op. 25 No. 11 in A Minor. I also love Liszt, Schubert, Beethoven, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Mozart, and now Bach is growing on me.

[panic]

alkan sonata third movement

[burstroman]

Mozart, Rondo, a minor
Beethoven, Sonata Op. 101

[cerulean]

I like pretty much anything by Chopin. My two favorite works he has written are the Ballade Op. 23 in G Minor, and the Etude Op. 25 No. 11 in A Minor. I also love Liszt, Schubert, Beethoven, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Mozart, and now Bach is growing on me.

same here. and i know what you mean about Bach growing on you..i just listened to gould's cd of the Goldberg variations, and other inventios/p+f and i find myself wanting to play a lot of them.

alkan sonata third movement

u mean the op.33? yeah, it's likeable

Mozart, Rondo, a minor
Beethoven, Sonata Op. 101

i've done the rondo. and prefer to listen to the op101 instead of playing it. thanks though.

i seem to be attracted mainly to melancholy/sad melodies or fervent ones. (i've started another chopin nocturne) anyone else like this?  sorry for the long post + it's a post with 100s like it out there

[nicko124]

just a few - Liszt - Sonata in B Minor

Tausig - The Ghostship

Schubert - Impromptu in E Flat Op.90 No.2

[superstition2]

Solo, near-atonal: Scriabin 10th, 7th, or 5th sonatas
Solo, tonal: Rachmaninov 2nd sonata (original), Scriabin 1st sonata
With orchestra tonal: Rachmaninov 4th concerto (original or 1927), Scriabin concerto