Your top 10 favourite sub 5 min pieces

[opus10no2]

Sonatas are excluded, as are movements from works that must be played together, parts of works that are allowed to be played seperately - ie preludes or etudes from a set, are included.
The basic rule is that they should be programmable seperately 

Dohnanyi Etude in Bb minor
Scriabin Etude 8/12
Scriabin Prelude in E major (huge arpeggio one)
Chopin Etude op10no4,
25/12
Godowsky 25/11
Chopin prelude no8
Glinka -Balakirev - The Lark
Alkan - Increpatio (esquisse 10)
Alkan - Musique Militaire (esquisse 35)


These are what sprung to mind, there are so many more.

Yours? 

[ronde_des_sylphes]

In no particular order of preference, and off the top of my head, so I may have missed something:

Alkan Allegro barbaro
Alkan Les Diablotins (Esquisse no 45)
Alkan etude op 39 no 7 (if I'm allowed this under the quoted rules.. and if not I guess I will replace it with Volodos Rondo alla turca..)
Cziffra Flight of the Bumblebee
Cziffra arrangement of Khatchaturian Sabre Dance
Henselt Si oiseau j'etais
Liapunov Ronde des sylphes (!)
Liszt Reminiscences of Lucia di Lammermoor
Liszt Le rossignol
Liszt Grand Galop Chromatique (but only if played by Cziffra, others are pale in comparison)

   

[elevateme_returns]

i needed a thread like this so much, i'm looking all over the place for brilliant miniatures

off the top of my head, sorry these will be pretty much all standard rep

Brahms -  A major intermezzo no. 2 op 118
Ravel - jeux d'eau - (is that under 5?)
Bach - D major P & F No. 5 from WTC book 2
William Baines - The Chimes
Debussy - Reflets dans l'eau
Kapustin - Intermezzo op 40
Liadov - Prelude no1 op 57
Medtner - Fairy Tale op 20 no 1
Sibelius - The Spruce Tree op 75
Poulenc - Intermezzo in A flat

in no particular order. obviously theyre not all great music but i like listening to them.

[ganymed]

Brahms op. 118 no 2.
Scarlatti K27
scriabin op. 16 no 4
scriabin op.8 no 12
chopin op. 10 no 3
chopin op. 72 no 1
scriabin op. 25 no3 Mazurka Em

[pita bread]

Brahms - Intermezzo Op. 118/6
Scriabin - Etude Op. 42/5
Scriabin - Etude Op. 42/6
Scriabin - Prelude Op. 11/12
Ravel - Jeux D'eau (Richter tempo)
Poulenc - Novelette #3
Sessions - Homage a Faure
Gershwin-Wild - Etude "Embraceable You"
Radiohead-O'Riley - Karma Police
Alkan - Etude Op 76/3 (Hamelin tempo)

[lavalse]

From the 'most often played' playlist of my iPod:-

Szymanowski prelude op 1 #1
Szymanowski prelude op 1 #2
Rachmaninov etude tableaux op 39 #8
Liadov prelude op 40 #3
Chopin prelude op 28 #8
Prokofiev vision fugitive 8 Commodo
Kapustin prelude op 53 #3
Kapustin prelude op 53 #5
Scriabin prelude op 11 #1
Ligeti etude Desordre

[lavalse]

*dupe*

[elevateme_returns]

Szymanowski prelude op 1 #2

thats an amazing piece

[walking_encyclopedia]

My favorites would include but is not necessarily limited to:

Scriabin Etude op. 2 no. 1
Scriabin Etude op. 42 no. 5
Chopin Etude op. 25 no. 6
Chopin Etude op. 25 no. 11
Brahms Intermezzi opus 117 nos. 2 and 3
Prokofiev Visions Fugitives opus 22 no. 10 (tempo marking ridiculosamente)

[elevateme_returns]

Moszkowski op 36 no 6! great piece

[dnephi]

I recommend Wilde Jagd.

[deboerbarry]

A nice easy-going set. Nothing too demanding on the ear or the fingers...

Tchaikovsky Seasons No 6 (Barcarolle)
Grieg Troldhaugen (lyric pieces)
Grieg Kanon (lyric pieces)
Grieg Forbii (lyric pieces)
Chopin Nocturne Fsharp
Chopin Waltz Gflat
Bowen Romance No1
Bowen Romance No2
Debussy Arabesque No 1
Borodin Scherzo

[soliloquy]

Every piece is <5' when I play




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