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the_franzliszt

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Top 5 Favorite Piano Pieces in Minor

on: February 18, 2024, 03:05:11 AM

Post your top 5 favorite piano pieces in MINOR KEY. + 1 Piano Concerto in Minor

Chopin - Ballade No.1 in G Minor
Scriabin - Etude in D-Sharp Minor
Liszt - Sonata in B minor
Chopin - Nocturne Op.55 No.1 in F minor
Liszt - Transcendental Etude No.10 "Appassionata" in F minor

Chopin - concerto No.2 in F minor, Op.21

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Piano Pieces in Minor

Reply #1 on: February 18, 2024, 06:22:38 AM

Hard to pick, because I much prefer the major keys.

Bach - The Art of Fugue (BWV 1080)
Shostakovich - Sonata in B minor (Op. 61)
Beethoven - Sonata in F Minor "Appassionata" (Op. 53)
Schubert - Sonata in C Minor (D 958)
Bach - French Overture (BWV 831)

Mozart - Piano Concerto in D Minor (K 466)

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last 3 schubert sonatas and piano trios are something else

busondelssohn

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Piano Pieces in Minor

Reply #2 on: April 24, 2024, 05:45:10 AM

I know this list looks excruciatingly unoriginal, but these pieces will never get old for be.

Chopin Ballade no 4
Chopin nocturne op 27/1. It's basically a mini ballade. I had such fun practicing it.
Chopin funeral march. Heard it played at my best friend's funeral. Will always love it.
Rach prelude in b Minor op.32/10. Such a dramatic piece.
LISZT-WILDE JAGD!!!!

For piano concertos I can't decide between Mendelssohn 1 and 2. They're both great und possibly underrated.

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brogers70

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Piano Pieces in Minor

Reply #3 on: April 24, 2024, 10:01:50 AM

Bach P&F in C# minor WTC Book I
Mozart Sonata in A minor
Beethoven Sonata in C minor Opus 111
Brahms Intermezzo in B minor Opus 199 #1
Schubert Impromptu in F minor Opus 142 #1

Beethoven Third Concerto C Minor

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Piano Pieces in Minor

Reply #4 on: April 24, 2024, 04:17:31 PM

Liszt Dante Sonata (d minor)
Scriabin Sonata 2 in g sharp minor
Bach a minor prelude and fugue book 1
Weiss Carmen Fantasy (e minor)
Rachmaninov Sonata 2 b flat minor

Rachmaninov Concerto 1 F-sharp minor

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liszt-and-the-galops

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Piano Pieces in Minor

Reply #5 on: April 24, 2024, 04:29:10 PM

Ravel - Le Gibet (Eb minor)
Liszt - Galop (A Minor)
Liszt - La Campanella (1838 version) (G# Minor)
Chopin - Ballade no. 1 (G Minor)
Chopin - Ballade no. 4 (F Minor)

Unordered.

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iamdopeuarenope

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Piano Pieces in Minor

Reply #6 on: May 07, 2024, 04:05:20 PM

No order
Liszt-Paganini Etude 6 (A Minor)
Chopin Ballade No. 1 (G Minor)
Chopin Ballade No. 4 (F Minor)
Beethoven Sonata Op 8 No 13 (Pathetique) (C Minor)
Chopin Etude Op 25 No 5 (E Minor)

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto 1 (Bb Minor)

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Piano Pieces in Minor

Reply #7 on: May 08, 2024, 01:38:05 AM

Franz Liszt, Sonata in B Minor
Franz Liszt, Totentanz (version for piano solo)
Leopold Godowsky, Passacaglia in B Minor
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Variations on a Theme by Chopin
Frederic Rzewski, The People United Will Never Be Defeated

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