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?

[piggynose]

this is an ironic thread!!!

[piggynose]

why?
my stepfather played and taught the piano.
i cant for the life of me remember his favourite peices. I do know he was gifted and was playing complex stuff at the age of 5!

[Arksided]

Theirs's a fella around here that'll be so happy for you, (Ibuprofen)

[tomus42]

In addition to what I said earlier, Satie gnossiennes and gymnopedies, and various Chopin.

I tend to like stuff that's just piano as opposed to when there's an orchestra behind it.

[Mozz71]

Well, it's more contemporary than classical, but George Gershwin's wonderful Rhapsody in Blue for me.

[DTCwordfan]

my ex loved that piece, Mozz, apparently it's a superb piece to replace playing scales as one's fingers are forced into the right position....her prof of music had suggested it - she was an ex harpist who had never had a piano lesson in her life.

[Togo]

Some lovely examples already poster particularly Satie's Gnossienes. Here are two others of my favs.

[Togo]

[DTCwordfan]

the duet with the cello is above Togo....there's also a wonderful viola version - and a flute one too. Nicola Benedetti on violin is superb as well.

[DTCwordfan]

Einaudi, Zimmer and Morricone are all superb composers for their medium.

[Togo]

Jim posted Gnossiene No1 earlier. This is the whole suite Gymnopédies illustrated by the French artist Edouard Leon Cortes. When I watch and listen I feel that I have been there or should be.

[Togo]

If this does not make you tingle you have no soul. Beautifully played by the subliminal Ruth Slenczynska. ....
Chopin. Berceuse in D Flat major, Op. 57

[Prudie]

I'm not sure how anyone can pick their favourite classical piano piece when there is a world of brilliance to pick from. I have hundreds but I will mention Grieg's Piano Concerto because not only is it beautiful it was played at the first classical concert I ever went to when I was 16, my boyfriend took me to the QE Hall in London, talk about hairs on the back of my neck as I heard this.

[Togo]

Horowitz plays Liszt(not Brahms and Liszt.) Hungarian Rhapsody recorded 1958.

[Togo]

The piano although a wonderful instrument is not necessarily always serious. Victor Borge despite, being Danish, was a very amusing man and a talented player. He combined the two and was very watchable.
I well remember seeing him on the telly as a boy ... in black and white. Usually Sunday Evenings.

[Togo]

Borge wasn't "fond" of opera but Marilyn Mulvey, an opera singer, was brilliant too.

[Buenchico]

Whether my answer counts as 'classical' depends upon your definition of that word. For example, both Classic FM and Scala FM accept Scott Joplin's works as 'classical'. Using that loose definition, I'd say that Jaroslav Jezek's works also count. So I offer you his wonderful 'Bugatti Step':

[Togo]

This is Borge being serious. Claire de Lune.

[Togo]

I am off to bed now. Before I go, and with the permission of Dt, I will leave you with Borge in 1937. Yes 1937. Playing 8 pianos in his first filmed piece.

[fripfrip]

Harold Budd,Music for 3 Pianos,give it a try i'm sure you will like it.