Underrated pieces

[piabanoch]

What you think are underrated pieces?

[klavieronin]

I don't know that it's underrated exactly but I think Godowsky's Java Suite should be more well known.

[transitional]

We only know slightly underrated pieces, because truly, deeply underrated pieces are virtually unknown.

That being said -

Mozart K 533
Schubert D 568
Cramer Op. 20

All piano sonatas, I don't really know about much other things haha

[piabanoch]

ok, i think the same of Godowsky suite and his passacaglia

[piabanoch]

other underrated pieces?

[lelle]

Franck - Prelude, Aria et Final - the neglected sibling to the famous Prelude, Chorale et Fugue.

The problem is that the Prelude, Aria et Final are very hard to play well from a musical standpoint. A lot of recordings are quite heavy and boring, but I find this music has a lot of life and interesting and beautiful things going on if you play it well. I particularly love playing the Aria, it envelops you in such a blissful peace, while still having something occasionally bittersweet about it.

[piabanoch]

We only know slightly underrated pieces, because truly, deeply underrated pieces are virtually unknown.

That being said -

Mozart K 533
Schubert D 568
Cramer Op. 20

All piano sonatas, I don't really know about much other things haha

i listen to mozart sonata and it is fantastic, never hear it before. Thank you

[pianistavt]

I don't know that it's underrated exactly but I think Godowsky's Java Suite should be more well known.

Agreed - a fascinating work, perhaps a bit lengthy to listen to in one sitting.  Also his Passacaglia is an excellent work.  I'm still digesting his sonata.

[pianistavt]

If there's any composer that took the baton of the "serious-intellectual piano sonata" from Beethoven, it is Prokofiev.  Surprised?  Listen to the complete set 2-9  (1 was a student work).  They are modeled on the classical piano sonata:  3-4 movements (#3 is the exception), typically fast-slow-fast, sonata form, and they work through thematic development the way Beethoven did.  Six and Seven are the most played. I like 8 the best.  I think it would be interesting to see Prokofiev sonatas programmed along side Beethoven.

[piabanoch]

I listened to Prokofiev, very nice!

[pianistavt]

other underrated pieces?

I've just discovered the sonatas of Samuil Feinberg (1890-1962), a Russian that was squashed by the music nazi's of USSR "socialist realism".  He wrote 12 piano sonatas, essentially modeled on Scriabin's musical vision, but definitely a clear voice of his own.  I've listened to the first 7 sonatas - very impressed.
He also wrote 3 piano concertos.

[lelle]

I think the Beethoven sonata Op 14 no 1 in E major is very underrated. It's material is simple to the point of banality but what he does with it and all the little details really makes it a wonderful little sonata.