your favorite piece

[Etude]

I enjoy Opus Cemballisticum, although most people don't, but I am not sure where you can find a descent recording.  I don't mind Madge's as much as most people do, but I know that there can be much better.

It will still give you the jist of Sorabji.

Or rather the "jist" of Madge.   

[DarkWind]

Does anyone share my obbsession with Chopin's Barcarolle Op.60? It is the most beautiful and unique piano piece ever written. There are so many more pieces that are amazing, I won't bother with a list becuase I will just keep on ranting forever...

I love that work! It's insanely difficult though. Ravel wrote extensively about it, and was a huge influence on him, among other works of course. Also, if I had to narrow it down, my favorite piece would be Ravel's La Valse. 10+ minutes of the most beautiful music ever written.

[aquariuswb]

Anything by Gottschalk!


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Yes! Gottschalk never gets the credit he deserves!

Favorite piece ever though?
Well, it's definitely by Beethoven. Waldstein? Lebewohl? Opp. 78, 109-111...
Then for not just solo piano, it would still be Beethoven. 6th symphony? Kreutzer? Archduke? Piano concertos? 9th symphony?

AHHH! Too much!

After Beethoven, anything Debussy, Chopin, Mozart, Haydn, Gottschalk, Joplin, Dvorak, etc., etc., etc...

And yes, this is all one piece! 

[volodya]

Hmmm...this is a difficult one. Right now I'd have to say my favorite piece is:

Liszt -  "Norma" (Hamelin recording)

or

Liszt - "Vallee d'Obermann" (Berman recording)

or

Chopin - last movement of the b minor sonata (Garrick Ohlsson)

or

Liszt -  "Funerailles" (Horowitz' 1951 recording)

or

Alkan - "Aime-Moi" from Trois Morceaux Op. 15 (Hamelin)

[ivoryplayer4him]

I have many favorites, but I believe that I can narrow it down a bit.  Moonlight Sonata, Claire De Lune, Winterwind (Chopin), Bach's Preludium to a Well tempered clavier.