Your Favourite Classical Piano Music?

[DTCwordfan]

Following on from the What you are playing thread and that programme on TV the other night, what are your favourite piano pieces

To start, Rachmaninoff Concerto 2 in C Minor played by Khatia Buniatishvili, the Georgian pianist


Over to you?

[andy-hughes]

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto Number One - takes me straight back to a caravan holiday when I was about seven.

[DTCwordfan]

it has removed my linkage to the Rach 2 -

and then my blurb on Beatrice Berrut and her superb rendition of the for piano of the Mahler 5 symphony, the Adagietto.

[Canary42]

Yes, that's one of my favourites too Andy. My current top favourite (really needs an organ, but I'll table it anyway) is Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor.

[DTCwordfan]

allowed - it's a keyboard, albeit a complex one and then add all those pedals and stops!

[ladybirder]

Mine is Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu which my father used to play when we were all together in my grandmother's sitting room. He played it better than his brother who was a music teacher!!

[DTCwordfan]

[DTCwordfan]

On my list and such a contrast to the Chopin, the Estonian Arvo Part's Spiegel im Spiegel for piano and cello - can be played as a piano solo.

[DTCwordfan]

And then Beethoven's 5th Concerto, Khatia again

[pastafreak]

Brahms Piano Trio no. 1...makes my heart ache.

[piggynose]

https://youtu.be/9nNGlaiVypU
Les Dawson!

[pastafreak]

And I've recently discovered this piano version of "The Moldau"...just as extraordinarily beautiful.



Then there's Chopin and Beethoven and Mozart and...and...

[ClareTG0ld]

I quite like Alina Bercu's version of Beethoven's Emperor...

[Barsel]

[ladybirder]

DTC I'd love to know if you like opera?

[Patsy33]

Beautiful Barsel.. One of my favourites too :-)

[Barsel]

Always knew you had good taste Patsy x

[Patsy33]

Well...I don't like to boast :-))

[DTCwordfan]

sounds good Clare, will listen to that version later and pasta's Brahms too.

Meanwhile Shostakovich's 2nd the Andante.....

[rowanwitch]

[DTCwordfan]

a limited repertoire, I would say, ladybirder.... my mother was seriously into choral and, apparently, was trilling away today. I haven't been able to visit as I am down with a fourth dose of this flu-thing....