Top 100 Piano songs

[hibbzzy]

I know its ambitious, but lets make a top 100 piano songs page. Go find your top 10 piano songs or so (any genre) and we will compile an awesome list.

Visit my site for some suggestions, www.easyonears.com its mostly new age but classical, jazz, pop and other genres are great too.

[Bob]

Probably Mendelssohn.  Did anyone else write songs for piano?  Schubert?  Schumann?  Not many are coming to mind now.

[djealnla]

Beethoven's Arietta obviously takes the cake.  

[stevebob]

What is a "piano song"?  As any song at all ("any genre," per the original post) could be arranged for piano, perhaps this thread is outside the scope of piano repertoire per se.

Or perhaps it was created merely to drive traffic to the creator's website.

[thalbergmad]

My favourites songs are:

Post to only one thread by Nils & death to all spammers by T Mad.

Thal

[hibbzzy]

What is a "piano song"?  As any song at all ("any genre," per the original post) could be arranged for piano, perhaps this thread is outside the scope of piano repertoire per se.

Or perhaps it was created merely to drive traffic to the creator's website.

I made this thread to help get ideas for the site I am creating, not simply to drive traffic to it or I would merely of said "come check out my site." Im not coning anyone, if you dont want to help out in the discussion just dont click on the thread. As for what qualifies as a piano song, im not trying to get philosophical, simply opening it up for everyones favourites. so, arrangements of other songs are allowed, but they should be specific.

[stevebob]

If you're unable to define the term piano song without getting philosophical, perhaps you could provide examples by starting off with your own favorites.

[hibbzzy]

stevebob, I think a “piano song” of any genre is pretty self-explanatory, for the purposes of the thread we’ll stick with it being “a song which is played by the piano.” However, that is not the purpose of this post. Here is a list of some of my favorites. I have a strong bias towards new age music but added some of my favorite classical pieces as well.

Beethoven – Pathetique Mov 1 – 3
Beethoven - Fur Elise
Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata
Franz Liszt – La Campanella
Franz Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody no.2
Mozart – Fantasy in D Minor
Jon Schmidt – All of Me
Jon Schmidt – Love Story Meets Viva La Vida
Yiruma – River flows in you
Yiruma – Maybe
Yiruma – Kiss the Rain
Giovanni Allevi – Back to life
Giovanni Allevi – Come sei veramente
Ludovico Einaudi - Nuvole Bianche
Ludovico Einaudi – Divenire
Yann Tiersen – L’apres midi
Yann Tiersen – Rue de Cascades
Hans Zimmer – He’s a pirate (piano arrangement)
Elijah Bossenbroek – Song of Simplicity
David Lanz – Cristofori’s Dream
Christopher Peacock – The Rose
Helen Jane Long – Expression
Wim Mertens – Struggle for Pleasure
Michael Nyman – The Sacrifice
Kevin Kern – Sundial Dreams
George Winston - The Carol of the Bells
Danny Wright – My Miracle
Carly Comando – Everyday
Dire Straits – Tunnel of love (piano arrangement)
Guns n Roses - Sweet Child O’Mine  (Scott Davis arrangement)
Own City – Fireflies (Yoonha Hwang arrangement)
Linkin Park – Numb (piano arrangment by “theKen” on youtube)

[ch101]

do not get it.

[yosmil]

I know its ambitious, but lets make a top 100 piano songs page. Go find your top 10 piano songs or so (any genre) and we will compile an awesome list.

Visit my site for some suggestions, www.easyonears.com its mostly new age but classical, jazz, pop and other genres are great too.

My personal top 3:

1) Clair de lune - Debussy: www.1stpiano.com/clair-de-lune/
2) Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven: www.1stpiano.com/beethoven-moonlight-sonata/
3) Liebesträum No.3 - Liszt: www.1stpiano.com/franz-liszt-liebestraum-dream-of-love/

All great compositions and performances IMO.

[retrouvailles]

stevebob, I think a “piano song” of any genre is pretty self-explanatory, for the purposes of the thread we’ll stick with it being “a song which is played by the piano.” However, that is not the purpose of this post. Here is a list of some of my favorites. I have a strong bias towards new age music but added some of my favorite classical pieces as well.

Beethoven – Pathetique Mov 1 – 3
Beethoven - Fur Elise
Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata
Franz Liszt – La Campanella
Franz Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody no.2
Mozart – Fantasy in D Minor
Jon Schmidt – All of Me
Jon Schmidt – Love Story Meets Viva La Vida
Yiruma – River flows in you
Yiruma – Maybe
Yiruma – Kiss the Rain
Giovanni Allevi – Back to life
Giovanni Allevi – Come sei veramente
Ludovico Einaudi - Nuvole Bianche
Ludovico Einaudi – Divenire
Yann Tiersen – L’apres midi
Yann Tiersen – Rue de Cascades
Hans Zimmer – He’s a pirate (piano arrangement)
Elijah Bossenbroek – Song of Simplicity
David Lanz – Cristofori’s Dream
Christopher Peacock – The Rose
Helen Jane Long – Expression
Wim Mertens – Struggle for Pleasure
Michael Nyman – The Sacrifice
Kevin Kern – Sundial Dreams
George Winston - The Carol of the Bells
Danny Wright – My Miracle
Carly Comando – Everyday
Dire Straits – Tunnel of love (piano arrangement)
Guns n Roses - Sweet Child O’Mine  (Scott Davis arrangement)
Own City – Fireflies (Yoonha Hwang arrangement)
Linkin Park – Numb (piano arrangment by “theKen” on youtube)

Something tells me that, by the look of your list, and your definition of "piano song", that you didn't read the disclaimer before posting here:

Please note: This board is primarily intended for professional pianists and piano teachers as well as piano students and amateures at an advanced level. If you are not part of this group, consider posting in the Student's Corner instead.

[stevebob]

Whatever the case, this discussion would have died 2-1/2 months ago were it not yet another dead thread pointlessly resurrected by ch101.

Way to go, ch101.

[john11inc]

Vote to ban ch101.

Also, it should be clear that the greatest piano song is "Last Rites/Loved to Deth":

lol

[daniloperusina]

There's no need to be rude. Hibbzzy got the terminology wrong, so let's help get it right. "A song played by the piano" is a contradiction in terms. You can not play a song, you can only sing a song. So, "a song sung by the piano" is what you should have written. Further, a piano can not sing by itself, it needs a person to do that, and this person is called a pianist. So then we get "a song sung by the pianist". There was never a greater singing pianist than Glenn Gould, so here is an example of him singing Johann Sebastian Bach's Aria (aria=air, meaning the air a pianist has to blow out of his mouth while singing this). Try to ignore the sounds caused by him pressing down the keys of the piano and listen closely to his murmuring singing. It's not so beautifully sung, but it's a good melody.

Lastly, if the pianist keeps his mouth shut while playing it's no longer called "a piano song", it's then called "a piano play". For example, if Evgeny Kissin, who keeps his mouth shut while playing (and also for most part of his interviews, but that's another story), were to perform the Moonlight Sonata, you would say "Evgeny Kissin performing the piano play Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven".
Enough philosophy.

[stevebob]

There's no need to rude.

There's no need to write a condescending and misplaced screed about the nature of song, either.

[...] Enough philosophy.

That's right.

[john11inc]

Evgeny Kissin performing the piano play Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven.

Let's not confuse the poster of the original question.

Just so we're clear, Evgeny Kissin is not a real pianist.

[daniloperusina]

Just so we're clear, Evgeny Kissin is not a real pianist.

What, you mean Kissin is piano actor? Well, he better actor than Gnal Gnal, at any rat. He only Kung-Fu Master. Ok. But best singer is Pornorelich, tough. And I say this with period!

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[daniloperusina]

- I have not found a single Chopin piece I don't like. I love his Etudes, and Fantasie Impromptu

Yeah, I have three thick inbound books with the complete works of Chopin. I sometimes point at them and tell whoever "look at how much he wrote, and almost all of it full of genius".

But then again, you have to say that about Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, not to mention Scarlatti, Haydn, Schubert, Prokofiev, Shoenberg, Berio, Feldman, Boulez. Who did I miss? We are lucky that the list is very very long...

[john11inc]

What, you mean Kissin is piano actor?

In a way.  Much like there are different classes of actor, there are different classes of actor pianists (or people pretending to be pianists [which for clarity's sake must be defined as someone who plays the piano competently], I should say).  If Mastroianni and Dern, for instance, are equatable to Berman and Michelangeli, then in much the same way are . . . say . . . Jason Statham and Megan Fox equatable to Kissin and Lang Lang (you seem to get those last two mixed up: understandable considering they are, in a larger sense, the same thing).

[redbaron]

Already on this post we've had mention of Guns n Roses and Coldplay. When are people gonna learn that firstly this site is directed towards classical piano music (you'd think a quick look around a few pages would have told anyone that) and secondly (and this REALLY annoys me) that they are PIECES!? Not SONGS! Please, please, please remove the original post and in future ban all such similar posts, they're a waste of time. I've no desire to see Coldplay mentioned on Pianostreet.

[retrouvailles]

Already on this post we've had mention of Guns n Roses and Coldplay. When are people gonna learn that firstly this site is directed towards classical piano music (you'd think a quick look around a few pages would have told anyone that) and secondly (and this REALLY annoys me) that they are PIECES!? Not SONGS! Please, please, please remove the original post and in future ban all such similar posts, they're a waste of time. I've no desire to see Coldplay mentioned on Pianostreet.

Amen. To see things like Coldplay and Guns n Roses mentioned in the same breath as Chopin, Beethoven, et al is a bit insulting to the old masters. Let's see Coldplay's music last 150 years and be studied in universities at an academic level, then I'll take them seriously.

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Coldplay's music

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.. described appositely by Alan McGee, and that is the only context in which I wish to hear of them, full stop.

[nataliethepianist]

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