Asking for advice - what enjoyable pieces would you recommend to play?

[daru2707]

Hello everyone, this is my first post here, and I'm glad I've finally found a great piano forum.


I would like to ask for advice , or maybe direction that I should follow - I'm 22 years old now, I have been learning piano since I was around 4 or 5 years old , BUT I stopped taking lessons when I was 15 ( I got bored, and didn't enjoy it as much as I do now ). I returned to playing piano 2 or 3 years ago, let's say with success but without any special idea what I like to play.

I'm not a pianist of course, let's say that I'm an advanced amateur, and now after some practise I find it not-so-hard and enjoyable to learn new pieces.

Now I found out that my big love from the first hearing is Rachmaninoff - I'm practising prelude in c sharp minor and prelude in g minor currently, along with some other stuff that isn't classical music, just some pieces that sound good to me I notice on youtube - if anyone knows Kyle Landry - I'm learning from his stuff.

And my goal is to learn Rachmaninoff's 3rd piano concerto Ossia cadenza, THE most beautiful thing I've ever heard.


So I'm asking what else would you recommend for me to play, knowing that I love Rachmaninoff's works , as well as any other - let's say heavy , powerful classical music. ( That's why I didn't enjoy taking lessons when I was younger - everything my teacher picked was rather delicate ).

And I'm asking that because my classical knowledge is unfortunately a big fail... I never took theory lessons, just practising the piano.



Thank you in advance for any good suggestions!

[musicluvr49]

Hello.

I have to recommend the Rachmaninoff Moment Musical No.5. I'm playing it now, and I LOVE it !Technically, it is not very difficult. But the challenge is voicing, and bringing out the countermelodies within the piece, and keeping the bass line even, and in the background.
It's a really beautiful piece. With a beautiful melody, and gorgeous harmony.

[bigswifty]

It isn't really that much like what you're describing, but La Soirée dans Grenade might be worth learning. It is quite a dramatic piece, and so it is quite powerful. You might enjoy playing it. You might even want to try The Crush Collision March. That's much more of a ragtime/march affair, but again, it's quite a dramatic piece, and thus a rather powerful one.

[rukunetsu]

If you like romantic pieces, here's a good one.
Franz Liszt: Au lac de Wallenstadt, from Années de Pélerinage: Suisse

Some people play this fast, others slow, but I like the slow version better 

[emilye]

Maybe listen this: Prelude in g sharp minor op. 32 no. 12 or Elegy ;-) so wonderful pieces!

[bbush]

Here's another interesting commentary (with a couple of audio examples) on Rachmaninoff's 3rd concerto:

https://rachmaninoff3.blogspot.com/

[twoism]

if you like Rach, then you might like Scriabin. Here's one of my favorite pieces by him

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[quantum]

Check out some Medtner

[daru2707]

Thanks for the replies - everybody mentioned something interesting, now i wish I had more free time : )

[wert16]

Theme and 12 deviations - chua, theres something really fun to play

[any87]

I would like to ask for advice , or maybe direction that I should follow - I'm 22 years old now, I have been learning piano since I was around 4 or 5 years old , BUT I stopped taking lessons when I was 15 ( I got bored, and didn't enjoy it as much as I do now ). I returned to playing piano 2 or 3 years ago, let's say with success but without any special idea what I like to play.

I'm not a pianist of course, let's say that I'm an advanced amateur, and now after some practise I find it not-so-hard and enjoyable to learn new pieces.

that's exactly my case, like i myself wrote this! except i started with chopin a year ago and did a couple of preludes, nocturno in c sharp minor (my favorite) and revolutionary etude. now i'm going for some easier etudes BUT recently i found i like rachmaninoff even more because it's somehow bolder, if i can put it like that... so i'm starting with prelude op 3 no 2 and the one in g minor which i adore. also i love beethoven, working on moonlight sonata, mov 3 currently (at least trying : D)
and scriabin, and ravel but that's still too advanced for me.
cheers!