favorite Melodies

[Le-ackt]

Any favorite Melodies from the piece you heard or played
I love the Chopin 's Piano Concerto No. 2, Larghetto
it's such a beautiful tune .

[rach17]

Barber's piano concerto mvt 2 is really beautiful!

I love that whole concerto!

[tosca1]

The largo movement from Chopin's piano sonata in B minor is for me one of the most profoundly moving melodies in music.  Beautiful melodies abound in Chopin but this largo fathoms the depths of the soul.

[ludwig]

 I enjoy main melodic lines from alot of piano pieces by Liszt and Chopin, but also the lyrical melodies of Schumann and Schubert, their flowing, on-going lieder such melodies are great.

[koeni]

hi
second movement of Beethovens "Emperor"(5th)
Moves me everytime I hear it

koeni

[MzrtMusic]

love the second movements of Beethoven's 7 symphony, Dvorak's 9 symphony and Ravel's piano concerto! Everyone has a thing for second movements... Strange...

Love,

Sarah

[amee]

I like Chopin's Etude Op 25 no 1 - it's beautiful.  I'm hoping to learn it one day!  

[frederic]

Yes, agree with tosca1.
The 3rd mvt of Chopin's 3rd is superb.
Also all the chopin nocturnes, ballades and mazurkas.

[tosca1]

Thank you Frederic. I just love that whole sonata.  I used to think that the great, late Schubert piano sonatas said it all, but Chopin's B minor sonata transports me to even more profound levels of emotional experience. It carries you from the intoxicating excitement of the fast, brilliant movements to the exquisite pathos of the slow movement.  I am pleased you like it too.

Robert.

[dinosaurtales]

I definitely agree that Chopin and Schubert were outstanding melodic writers.  Gorgeous melodies.  And that's my vote if we are limiting our scope to melodies.  I am really a Beethoven fan, though, because he could take what a composition teacher nowadays wouldn't even consider a decent THEME, and build a whole symphony out of it.  I'll take most of the second movements from the pastoral sonata, the pathetique, or the funeral march sonata. Just to name a few.

[ted]

At risk of appearing non-U in this discussion I like the tunes of the popular melody writers of modern times as much as, if not more than, most of the melodies written by the "immortals". Melody writing seems to have an approach, a science if you will, all its own and many popular melodists have enjoyed an uncanny knack of coming up with attractive tunes time after time. It can go hand in hand with other musical ability, for example in the case of Gershwin, but often these people work with an astonishing lack of technique and training and produce things which stir the emotions of the world. Long may melody perpetuate this mystery.

[SteveK]

I love Chopin's Nocturne no. 1, op. 9; it's a very beautiful piece.

[willcowskitz]

Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies: joy and sorrow in a perfect balance.

Liszt's Totentanz because it literally observes the relationship between life and death and this can't be anything but beautiful. Helped me figure something out while listening.

Beethoven's Moonlight 3rd movement: desperation and justification.

Sibelius because its somehow so... Finnish.

Rossini's William Tell (a classic hey  )

Prokofiev's Toccata: brutality, temperament, anger, argumentation and demands.

Rachmaninoff's third concerto, because of the views it opens in my head.

Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee: arrogant, insulting, independent, aggressive.

Liszt's first concerto: powerful, touchy, immature, naive defiance, light-hearted, airy...


...
To name a few!  

[frederic]

yes amee, the chopin etude is nice!