your favorite piece

[paris]

what is your favorite piece, it doesn't matter if you don't play it.   i'm fell in love with dante sonata...love on first sight...

[Chrysalis]

Debussy - Reverie

[IanT]

Paris,

It's an impossible task - I love too much stuff too dearly to be able to pick a favourite!

Ian

[vivacegirl]

wow-i have tons of favorites, but the one that comes to mind now is Clair de Lune (sp?) its really really beautiful

[stormx]

Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9 Nº1

That is the one that comes right now to my mind...extremelly beautiful (i prefer it over its more famous partenaire Op. 9 Nº 2)

[Lauren98]

Hard decision!
Solo piece: Beethoven sonata no. 30.
Ensemble piece: Brahms piano quartet no. 3 c minor.
I don't play either one, but I love listening to them!
Lauren

[rob47]

right now its that Lourie gigue from the Hamelin Kaleidoscope CD. Anyone got the score?

normally my favourite piece is anything played by Cziffra

Rach's third piano concerto is my fav of all time though.

Rob

[Belgedin]

Goldberg Variations

[Awakening]

right now its that Lourie gigue from the Hamelin Kaleidoscope CD. Anyone got the score?

normally my favourite piece is anything played by Cziffra

Rach's third piano concerto is my fav of all time though.

Rob

Cziffra's tone is mind-blowing.  I especially loves his Chopin etudes. 

Favorite pieces of mine...I'm currently very enchanted with all of Rachmaninoff's concerti, Chopin's etudes, ballades and nocturnes, and Brahms' second piano concerto. 

[paris]

Paris,

It's an impossible task - I love too much stuff too dearly to be able to pick a favourite!

Ian

yeah, i know it is, that's why i asked 

[robo1001]

Lizt's Liebestraum no.3 has got to be one of my favourite pieces! 

[kghayesh]

I think Chopin is the best ever piano composer.
Just listen to the brilliance of pieces like
- Etude no.10 in C- ('Revolutionary')
- Grande Polonaise Brilliante
- Nocturne no.20 in C#- Op.posth
- Sonata in Bb-
- Polonaise ('Heroic')

.......and others of his masterpieces

[steinwayguy]

I'll list a couple of my favorites from the past couple hours-
Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto (always)
Liszt 2nd Piano Concerto
Beethoven's 7th Symphony (always)
Beethoven's Hammerklavier and Op. 111 (always)

[pseudopianist]

Chopin - Concerto in F minor (The 2nd and the 3 movements are so perfet they make me cry out in happines)
Chopin - Concerto in E minor
Chopin - Etude 10:1
Chopin - Fantasy Impromptu (Don't kill me for this)
Chopin - Ballade No 1
Rachmaninov - Concerto in F# minor (The first movement is the most stunning thing ever!!  Must have score to study this)
Liszt - Mazeppa (esp the more lyrical middle part WOW)
Liszt - Sonata in B minor (3rd movement!)
Bach - St Matthew Passion
Bach - P & F No 16 WTC Book II

[paris]

Chopin - Concerto in F minor (The 2nd and the 3 movements are so perfet they make me cry out in happines)
Chopin - Concerto in E minor
Chopin - Etude 10:1
Chopin - Fantasy Impromptu (Don't kill me for this)
Chopin - Ballade No 1
Rachmaninov - Concerto in F# minor (The first movement is the most stunning thing ever!!  Must have score to study this)
Liszt - Mazeppa (esp the more lyrical middle part WOW)
Liszt - Sonata in B minor (3rd movement!)
Bach - St Matthew Passion
Bach - P & F No 16 WTC Book II

this isn't exactly one piece 

[Waldszenen]

Mine changes everyday, but today it's Horowitz's version of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 15.

Which Berlioz wrote first I think.

[pseudopianist]

this isn't exactly one piece 

Well depends... I think of it as a medely 

[ujos3]

Hi

Bach/Lizst transcription BWV 543 Prelude and Fugue (originally for organ)

I'm referring to the The Fugue. The prelude is also great, but this fugue....

Two years ago I bought a digital piano and began to relearn to play (after almost 15 years without piano).

I loved so much this fugue that I dedicated 8 months or more to learn it, without having so much the technique required. But I got it .

My former teacher did not know the work, but after hearing it at my classes she used it at her children classes (making them hear it, dance, play with rythms, etc.). She says children love it.  I would never have guessed!

Very difficult to find a piano interpretation for this work (usually you have the organ version, and it is really impressing).

[minimozart007]

I'm stumped... 

The canidates -

Chopin's Op. 36 Impromptu
Bach's 1st Partita
Bach's P + F No. 10 From WTC Bk. 1
Bach's 3rd Cello Suite
Beethoven's Op. 111 Sonata
Beethoven's Op. 59 No.2 String Quartet
Beethoven's OP. 69 Cello Sonata
Mozart's K. 457 Sonata
Ravel's String Quartet
Ravel's Miroirs

Today my fav would have to be the 1st partita by Bach.  Gotta love that gigue!

[hodi]

mendelssohn's F# Minor fantasy op.28

[musicsdarkangel]

Rachmaninoff op 23 no 7 (prelude)

Rachmaninoff sonata in b flat minor, no 2

Chopin - Scherzo in b minor (only performed by Jablonski, most people play too slow)

Liszt - Mephisto Waltz

Liszt - b minor sonata

does the Rach 3 count?  that would be number one.

[shasta]

Mendelssohn piano trio in D minor

[BoliverAllmon]

what is your favorite piece, it doesn't matter if you don't play it.   i'm fell in love with dante sonata...love on first sight...

I also love this piece. I only heard it once and absolutely loved it. I hated liszt up til that point. I would play the dante a million years before the B min.

boliver

[etudes]

in this moment
liszt paganini etude no.4 (it seems like no one want to play that)

[BoliverAllmon]

I also love this piece. I only heard it once and absolutely loved it. I hated liszt up til that point. I would play the dante a million years before the B min.

boliver

can you recommend a recording for me to buy? I need to get a hold of it.

boliver

[maxy]

can you recommend a recording for me to buy? I need to get a hold of it.

boliver

For Dante...
How about Cziffra, Ogdon and Berman (Lazar)

[Motrax]

Hi

Bach/Lizst transcription BWV 543 Prelude and Fugue (originally for organ)
[...]

An excellent piece indeed! Alexis Weissenburg made a wonderful recording of it - I believe it's on the Greatest Pianists of the 20th Century Series (if not, it's still gonna be on Amazon.com somewhere). He takes a very fast tempo and uses a great deal of pedalling (not at all how I play it) but it's still a great recording. The only other recording I have is by a pianist named Michael Block, who recorded all 6 of the "great" organ preludes and fugues. I don't like his recording as much, but the other pieces are certainly worth listening to, so I would still recommend that CD if only to become familiar with the others.

(I'll refrain from listning my own favorite pieces - the list would either be much too long or lacking of whatever didn't cross my mind at the moment)

[DarkWind]

Mine changes everyday, but today it's Horowitz's version of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 15.

Which Berlioz wrote first I think.

Actually, the Rakoczy March melody which can also be heard in one of Berlioz's operas was a melody that a war general wrote. Liszt and Berlioz both wrote pieces based on it. (Not sure if everything is said is 100%, whether if it was a general, or lieutenant, or soldier, etc.)


As for me, I like:

Ravel: Everything

[Waldszenen]

Actually, the Rakoczy March melody which can also be heard in one of Berlioz's operas was a melody that a war general wrote. Liszt and Berlioz both wrote pieces based on it. (Not sure if everything is said is 100%, whether if it was a general, or lieutenant, or soldier, etc.)


As for me, I like:

Ravel: Everything

oooooooh, I get it. So neither of them really wrote that melody.

[fred smalls]

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...

[Waldszenen]

I love the Barcarolle also

Except for the four octaves as its ending - IMO they ruined its tranquility.

[fred smalls]

I love the Barcarolle also

Except for the four octaves as its ending - IMO they ruined its tranquility.

Really? I quite like them.

[Waldszenen]

I've just never seemed to think that those octaves really suited the tranquil character of the work - I would have preferred it with a quiet, perfect cadence.

[nikodr]

My personal work for piano if i had to choose ONLY ONE it is the solo piano transcription of ravel Rapsodie espagnole made by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (yes the man who wrote Opus clavicembalisticum) (i love the second version of that work rapsodie espagnole composed at 1945).The reason is that we all hear all the piano works of ravel,played frequently by any pianists.And it is kind of boring some time to hear the same and same works.It is not the works that are boring but rather the level of the people who play,who may have technical mastery,but the music is gone out of the window.Now as i know ravel did a 2 piano version of that work,he never composed it for solo piano.

Sorabji's transcription is much better (!!) than the 4 hand version of ravel.He managed to recreate the whole orchestra atmosfaire,in to a very difficult piano transcription (who has 3 staves all the time,knightmare to play it believe me especially the last movement the feria!).

Even in places where it is impossible to transcribe for a single piano,sorabji (i dont know how!) managed to do so,it sounds like 2 people are playing at times (listen to malaguena,or the habanera).Feria is all the money my friends,and it is a 100% transcription of that work,it is not a paraphrase or a mix of sorabji's own ideas (like a fantasy on themes or something).

There are other works that i love and would love to play or study but this one stole my heart.

[tds]

Solo piece: Beethoven sonata no. 30.

Lauren

i second lauren. beethoven op. 109 is such a rare beauty that it has made me forget that it is actually music!!

[Dazzer]

Rachmaninoff op 23 no 7 (prelude)

Rachmaninoff sonata in b flat minor, no 2

Chopin - Scherzo in b minor (only performed by Jablonski, most people play too slow)

Liszt - Mephisto Waltz

Liszt - b minor sonata

does the Rach 3 count?  that would be number one.

I like your taste. Cheers to the rach 2nd sonata.( any idea whatever happened to the first?)

My personal work for piano if i had to choose ONLY ONE it is the solo piano transcription of ravel Rapsodie espagnole made by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (yes the man who wrote Opus clavicembalisticum)

I've heard of the Opus Clavicembalisticum, but i've NEVER heard it!!!! i want to though... the name itself is enough to spark interest! any idea where i can find a recording?

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Personally, my all time fave is STILL rach 2 concerto, followed closely by rach 3. Then anything by rachmaninov. Then Prokofiev concerti, 6 7 5 3 sonate. Then the rest are all pretty much tied so not much point. But most of them are from soviet era russian composers.

[nikodr]

I like your taste. Cheers to the rach 2nd sonata.( any idea whatever happened to the first?)



I've heard of the Opus Clavicembalisticum, but i've NEVER heard it!!!! i want to though... the name itself is enough to spark interest! any idea where i can find a recording?

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Personally, my all time fave is STILL rach 2 concerto, followed closely by rach 3. Then anything by rachmaninov. Then Prokofiev concerti, 6 7 5 3 sonate. Then the rest are all pretty much tied so not much point. But most of them are from soviet era russian composers.

Michael Habermann has recorded it on a bis cd.If you go to www.michaelhabermann.com you can check out about the recording.It has also an mp3 that haberman plays part of the last movement feria.I got the bis cd it is labbeled "Bis-cd-1036 stereo" and the name is "Transcription in the light of harpsicord technique for the modern piano of the chromatic fantasia of j.s.bach followed by a fugue and other piano music and transcriptions by Kaikhosru Sorabji"
The works the cd has are the following, Rapsodie espagnole (maurice ravel),
Passeggiata Venezianna (based on the Barcarolle from the tales of hoffman by jacques offenbach)
Variaton 56 from symphonic variatons for piano and orchestra
Quasi habanera
Chromatic fantasia of j.s.bach
And the Pasticcio capriccioso sopra op 64 no.1 dellio chopin (1933 version),(the minute waltz of chopin)

If you want the ravel and you cant find the cd tell me i may be able to send you an mp3 of it.

[robo1001]

Liszt's liebestraum no.3

[Dazzer]

Michael Habermann has recorded it on a bis cd.If you go to www.michaelhabermann.com you can check out about the recording.It has also an mp3 that haberman plays part of the last movement feria.I got the bis cd it is labbeled "Bis-cd-1036 stereo" and the name is "Transcription in the light of harpsicord technique for the modern piano of the chromatic fantasia of j.s.bach followed by a fugue and other piano music and transcriptions by Kaikhosru Sorabji"
The works the cd has are the following, Rapsodie espagnole (maurice ravel),
Passeggiata Venezianna (based on the Barcarolle from the tales of hoffman by jacques offenbach)
Variaton 56 from symphonic variatons for piano and orchestra
Quasi habanera
Chromatic fantasia of j.s.bach
And the Pasticcio capriccioso sopra op 64 no.1 dellio chopin (1933 version),(the minute waltz of chopin)

If you want the ravel and you cant find the cd tell me i may be able to send you an mp3 of it.

- listens to the clip -
whoa. whoa and whoa. lol
bah now how the hell am i supposed to find the cd...

[Waldszenen]

Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre Op. 40

Tschaikowsky's Francesca da Rimini


Not piano, yeah...

[Tash]

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...

YES that's def one of my absolute faves

plus bartok's 3rd piano concerto

and i've just discovered a great love for prokofiev's sonatas yummo

[offenbach]

Anything by Gottschalk!


O

[paris]

can you recommend a recording for me to buy? I need to get a hold of it.

boliver

listen aldo ciccolini, he plays wonderful

[musicsdarkangel]

I like your taste. Cheers to the rach 2nd sonata.( any idea whatever happened to the first?)

I've heard of the Opus Clavicembalisticum, but i've NEVER heard it!!!! i want to though... the name itself is enough to spark interest! any idea where i can find a recording?

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Personally, my all time fave is STILL rach 2 concerto, followed closely by rach 3. Then anything by rachmaninov. Then Prokofiev concerti, 6 7 5 3 sonate. Then the rest are all pretty much tied so not much point. But most of them are from soviet era russian composers.

Yeah, I love the Horowitz rendition of the 2nd sonata (which Rachmaninoff approved).  I think that it is so full of color, 2nd movement absolutely beautiful. 

I agree, more people need to play the first, it is excellent as well.

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.

BTW, I like your taste as well.

[beethoartok]

chopin- nocturne op.48 no.1
liszt- sonata in b minor
gershwin- rhapsody in blue (piano or orchestra)

probably the most moving pieces I know... too many others I also like though...

[thierry13]

I like your taste. Cheers to the rach 2nd sonata.( any idea whatever happened to the first?)

OMG!! YOU DON'T KNOW RACH'S FIRST SONATA!!! It's WONDERFULL

https://www.webconcerthall.com/archive/artist/mijung/

Here is the link for an excellent (IMO) recording. Enjoy

[Waldszenen]

Rachmaninoff only wrote two sonatas, yeah?

[brewtality]

at the moment its Saint-Saens/Liszt/Horowitz Danse Macabre as played by the mysterious u-mat 

[Dazzer]

OMG!! YOU DON'T KNOW RACH'S FIRST SONATA!!! It's WONDERFULL

https://www.webconcerthall.com/archive/artist/mijung/

Here is the link for an excellent (IMO) recording. Enjoy

I know he wrote two (that's why its called sonata no 2 isit not?) but i just couldn't find anything on it.

BAH i need realplayer... NOOOOO

edit: okay got realplayer...

nicee...i think i still prefer the 2nd one though... i guess i'll decide soon enough.

[bachmaninov]

Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto No. 1