Something Missing ... in your Soul?

[m1469]

hee hee ... Ok, what I mean is, do you find that there are certain pieces which, when you aren't actively playing them, you start to feel as though there is something missing from your life on a deep and indescribable level? ?  And then, one day maybe you play them/it again and you realize that nothing in the whole entire, universal world will ever replace what that piece means to you and you simply must, MUST, play it for the rest of your days??  

I has that.

[pianowolfi]

I have so many of these that I could play 24/7 for the rest of my days!!!

[ted]

The Ab Polonaise, The Rhapsody In Blue and Maple Leaf Rag I suppose. They gave me a kick to play when I was a kid fifty years ago and they always give me a kick now.

But they're just the longest standing examples. In a certain sense, Wolfi is right, every piece I play is in this category, including my own stuff. I have been in the habit of cycling through everything for years now which, given the relatively small size of my repertoire, isn't particularly hard to do. Of course this is easy for me to say because I am an amateur and I have never had to play anything I didn't really like anyway.

[m1469]

I guess I know what you mean, but I think I'm just getting to a point in my life where I'm really recognizing it for what it is.  But, no, in thinking about it, definitely not all pieces strike me the same way.  The Appassionata is major for me.  Schumann ABEGG, I think I need to play the Bach Prelude and Fugue in g minor again, the Mozart Fantasia and Sonata in C minor ... hmmm ... I think I really need to play Au lac de Wallenstadt again ... *maybe* Orage.  A number of others, too.  But, some of those I closed off from myself because they were so deeply embedded, and I'm feeling ready to reclaim those parts of me and to play those pieces again with entirely new experiences and ways of sharing.  I mean, to have them somewhere active in my life and to be exercising and expanding that part of myself who has housed and incubated them.  And, I am remembering things from childhood and feelings and instincts and ways of operating as a musician, and it's like ... I just want to be *whole* again and to create an entirely new musical garden .    

[refugepiano]

Does having the first page of the Prelude in C# minor, Op 3 by Rachmaninoff as my PC desktop wallpaper and the fact that I still listen and play it several times even though I do not need to mean something to you?

[zeusje]

Pieces I can't play and which I would love to become very closely attached to in terms of being able to play, which have this special place somewhere deep in me:

- Beethoven variations (the one with the theme from last part of symphony no. 3)
- Chopin andante spinato + polonaise briliiante
- Schumann novelette no. 8
- Rachmaninoff prelude no. 13, op. 32

Possibly more, but these come to mind most easily.

[richterfan1]

i remember everything what iv played in last 9 years, !!! my memory is PERFECT