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Favorite codas and finales (and interpretations of them)?
on: September 23, 2025, 09:32:50 PM
What are everyone's favorite codas and finales?

Also, what are your favorite interpretations of those codas/finales?

Personally:
Alkan - Concerto for Solo Piano mvt. 1, Op. 39 no. 8 (Gibbons)


Alkan - Op. 39 no. 11 “Ouverture” (Gibbons)


Chaminade - Op. 21 Sonata in C Minor (Polk)


Chaminade - Op. 40 Konzertstück (Harnisch)


Debussy - Jardins sous la Pluie (Shannon)


Liszt - S. 140 Etudes d'Exécution Transcendante d'Après Paganini no. 3 “La Campanella” (Chang)


Liszt - Piano Concerto no. 1 (Cziffra)


Liszt - S. 393iii Sonnambula de Bellini (Bellucci)


Liszt - S. 400 Reminiscences de Lucrezia Borgia (Trio du Seconde Acte) (Wolfram)


Liszt - S. 420 La Clochette (Fiorentino)


Prokofiev - Piano Concerto no. 3 (Argerich)


Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto no. 2 (Rachmaninoff)


Saint-Saëns - Op. 111 no. 6 "Toccata d’Après le Cinquième Concerto" (Duchâble)


Schumann - Op. 17 Fantasie (de Larrocha)


Scriabin - Sonata no. 5 (Laul)


Stravinsky/Agosti - The Firebird (Piemontesi)



Here's a link to a compilation of all of these codas (except the Chaminade Konzertstück), if anyone wants them:


(Timestamps are in the video's description on Youtube.)
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