What are your "bucket list" pieces?

[peanutbutter]

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[m1469]

Right now my bucket list is pretty small, as I'm somewhere in my life between insane, intellectual expectations towards myself and actual reality (and that bloody reality keeps being so shifty in itself!).

So,

Beethoven, Appassionata
Schumann, ABEGG Variations
Bach, Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue
         Goldberg Variations
Rachmaninov, 3rd Piano Concerto (yeah, I know)
                    2nd Piano Sonata

The first two I already started and am currently on a break from them, but I know I'll personally need to pick them again at some point.  The others I haven't even started, and I think (at least it seems right now), I'd be willing to let them go if there is some kind of very obvious tradeoff (not necessarily musical).  There is plenty of music that I used to think I had to know and be capable of storing within myself and could play at the drop of a hat like I'm a juke box ... I still really enjoy that idea and I like the idea of what kind of musical knowledge that would give me, but I'm just trying to move along the path at the time, you see, and I don't really even know where it's going  :-.

[peanutbutter]

The others I haven't even started, and I think (at least it seems right now), I'd be willing to let them go if there is some kind of very obvious tradeoff (not necessarily musical).

I know what you mean...   I always wonder what tradeoff that will be, since it takes A LOT  to let one go... Haha... but, some people are lucky enough to have moments like that. I'm also quite fond of the idea of being able to play them 'at the drop of the hat' - makes it sound more fluid.

Good luck with that, m1469, and thanks for taking time 

[m1469]

What is on yours? 

[peanutbutter]

Nothing much, but a lot of Bach... 

Harpsichord Concerto no. 2 1st mov.
Italian Concerto
Partita no. 2
Contrapunctus 1

Chopin's Etude 10/4 and 25/9

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (yah, I know)

Most of these are WAY beyond my reach, haha, Partita no. 2 is probably the first I'd tackle. I love the Sinfonia.