Hello! Just want to find out what are everyone's favourite pieces, to play or to listen to.
I'll start off:
Mozart, Rondo Alla Turca
Chopin, Fantasie Impromtu
Debussy, Clair de la Lune

and Dawn from the Pride and Prejudice score!

To play:

Clementi's Sonatina Op.36 #3
Chopin's Nocturne in Eb Major Op.9 #2

To listen:

Alot alot! I love the 3 you mentioned and Mozart's 'Coronation' Concerto comes into mind as well. K216 also. I can't make up my mind!

Ravel Menuet Antique and Tombeau de Couperin
Shostakovich P + F in A
Bach P + F in B minor from WTC II

Bach Italian Concerto and French Suite no ?5 I think
Schubert Wanderer Fantasia
Debussy La Cathedrale Engloutie, and Jardins sous la Pluie

Scriabin Prelude in A minor Op 11 no

Schubert , last Sonata in B flat D960 (particularly the gorgeous slow movement)

and I suppose some Bach, ah yes Prelude and Fugue in F sharp Minor (Book 2)

Mozart: C minor Piano Concerto, Piano Quartets in G minor and Eb
Chopin: B minor Sonata
Schumann: Concerto
Brahms: F minor Piano Quintet Op 35b(?)
Brahms: Concertos 1 in D, 2 in Bb
Fauré: C minor Piano Quartet
Rakhmaninov: Paganini Variations
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3
Bartok: Piano Concerto No 3
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet

Erm
Grieg Piano Concerto in Am
Grieg - Einsamer Wanderer in 3rd book of lyric pieces
Tchaikovsky - Febuary and August from the seasons
Scott Joplin - The Maple Leaf Rag (although i'm getting progressively sick of overexposing myself to it haha)
Mozart - Rondo Alla Turca
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Blue Rondo Alla Turk
Bach - Prelude in C *swoon*

Beethoven: Sonata Op.111
Schubert: Sonata in C minor, Wanderer Fantasy
Mozart: Ronda Alla Turca
Chopin: Ballade in G minor
Mendessohn / Rachmaninoff: Scherzo from 'Midsummer Night Dream'
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
Joplin: Magnetic Rag
Janacek: I.X.1905
Schumann: Intermezzo
Bhrams: Cappriccio in B minor
Dvorak: New World Symphony
Grieg: Quite a few from lyrics pieces

I went to last year prom for Ravel Concerto and I end up standing at the back for whole concerto so I can see the pianist playing

Golliwog's cakewalk!

Einaudi- Le Onde

apart from all the obvious ones that everyone's already mentioned!

Dvorak: New World Symphony

not sure I've heard the piano version of this ?

Me neither but I'd like to!!!!

Wish I could get a piano arrangement of Mars by Edgar Holst, one of the greatest pieces of music ever written imo.

Chopin's Revolutionary Study (because it's the first piano piece I heard when I was 5 and I was hooked!),
Rachmaninov's 2nd piano concerto (love every bar)
Chopin's Ballade in G minor
Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata

Probably could think of a few more but those stand out as personal favourites.

Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin.. especially the Forlane... sumptuous!

*nods*...actually, anything by Einaudi for that matter.

Ahh, but there is!!
It's for two pianos but VERY nice and VERY pricey - maybe £30...

Sonata in D by Scarlatti - if thats how you spell it?!

Honky Tonk Train Blues - Meade Lux Lewis

Rach Two

Best piano pieces ever ?? Hmmm, that would take pages, so I'll say some of the pieces that I've been mad about lately.

Chopin: Barcarolle (Ahem, besides everything else)
Beethoven: Sonata L'adieu (oops, forgot opus)
Schubert: Three pieces D946
Mendelssohn: Rondo Capriccioso
Brahms: Rhapsody No.1
Scriabin: Prelude no 9
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Debussy: Golliwog's cakewalk, 1st Arabesque
Greig: A good some from the Lyric Pieces

I'll edit this post as soon as I remember more ..

I have started learning the piano and wanted to do so to be able to play
The Moonlight Sonata
The Entertainer
Great Balls of Fire
All quite different I know, but something to aspire to. I am on Book One of Making The Grade!!!!!!!!
So it will be ages yet
Beverley.

YES!! Also Canon in D major, I downloaded a FANTASTIC version years ago and I changed computers and can't find it again!

Also Air on G String for piano- magical

And there's a piece by Purcell but I can't remember what it's called and I can't remember if it's just for piano....

I don't really think there's much I can add to those already listed in the way of big classical works, but one piece that really touched me and I've always loved is and old grade 2 piece called Cloudy Day by Christopher Norton. Can't really say what it is but even now, 6 years on, I wtill go back to it and play it.
Also Time by Sandi Thom, which on the album is two guitars and vocals works really well as a piano solo and is so lovely, it makes me well up!!

couldn't choose particular pieces but my fave piano composers are Rachmaninov, Debussy, Gershwin and Joplin!

oh yeh and Chopin

Gotta be:

Prelude from Suite Bergamasque, Debussy
Merry Andrew, John Ireland
Chelsea Reach, John Ireland (GORGEOUS)

*yay* I love the Seasons! My favourites are probably April, June and January...



Tsk. Tsk. I guess mine and Noodelz's influences haven't been round lately...*whispers*


Hisaishi


*grin* Summer and "Wind of Life" obviously. But I've recently discovered "Nocturne" as well, which is fab.



Also, "Aeris' Theme" and "Eyes on Me" by Nobuo Uematsu.



~CPPF

I still love to play my list A piece I did for my grade 3 piano exam last year Passepied from Charles Dieupart.

Anything by Chopin!

Hmmm...very difficult... but I have some piano music I come back to regularly...

Mozart - C minor Fantasia (the one which goes before C minot Sonata)
Beethoven - Appassionata
Chopin - Black keys etude
Brahms - Rhapsodies op.79
JSB - P & F in F# minor book 2
Debussy - Arabesque no.1
Rachmaninov - G minor Prelude
Ravel - Jeux d'eau & Sonatina

Beethoven - Piano Concerto in G
Chopin - F minor Concerto

it is almost a torture to have to narrow the list down...

Great, another vote for the WTC Book 2 F# minor ! (No 14)
Its not too well known that one, come on some of you Bach players have a look at it.!

Rachmaninoff - Op.33 No.4
Grieg - Am Concerto
Chopin - Nocturne Op.27 No.2
Chopin - Ballade No.1
All of Beethoven's sonatas
Debussy - Claire de Lune
Debussy - Arabesque No.1 and 2
Liszt - La Campanella


You forgot Asian Dream Song, Rain Garden, Dreamy Child, Resphonia, A*hitaka and San, Highlander, Merry-Go-Round of Life, Innocent, The Wind Forest.....

Wow, snap! Thought nobody else had heard of it!



On a Final Fantasy VII theme, 'Holding my thoughts in my heart' and 'Interrupted by Fireworks' are quite cool.

Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Chopin: Tough one that - there's quite a lot!
Debussy: Reverie
Scriabin: Nocturne for the Left Hand, No 2,3 and 5 from 7 Preludes (probably have got to find the Op. numbers to make it a bit more clear which set of 7! I think it's Op. 17.)
Rachmaninov: Op. 17 Fourth Movement, Tarantelle
Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit - not so much the 2nd one though... sounds awful to say it though, as they should come as a set!



To be honest, it's really quite strange - my favourite stuff used to be all Baroque, then it became mainly Romantic, and now it's gone on through Impressionistic and 20th Century - my taste in music progresses through the centuries as I progress through time playing piano...

(Don't know why I don't have many favourite in the Classical Era itself though! )

~Wobby~

You guys are great


Well, since I've been in the Schubert phase lately, I'd add to my list his 3 pieces D946 and his sonata No 19 D958.

debussy: all his pieces, especially claire de lune
chopin: his ballades
grieg: some of his lyric pieces

ShArOn

Very tricky, I'd single out Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier', Bach's Goldberg Variations (not really a piano piece, but hey ) and the Schumann Fantasie as works which I know well and love. Part of the appreciation is no doubt due to familiarity, and I'm sure there's a great pile of music out there which I potentially like even more than pieces I already know - pianists are blessed with such a rich repertoire.

I am quite a fan of Schumann, could you possibly provide any more details about the Fantasie?

Ta. Boo