What are your top 3 classical piano pieces?

Question

Mine are;
1) Franz Liszt - Liebestraume no 3
2) Claude Debussy - Clair de lune
3) Frédéric Chopin - Waltz no 7 in C# minor.

Answer 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSxDjW9bLCQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK7bHaBWPV4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNYYwjWBR7E

Answer 2

1. Maurice Ravel- Jeux D'eau
2. Frederic Chopin-Etude No.18
3.Bach-Prelude and Fugue No.23-Well-tempered Clavier- Book No.1

Answer 3

Franz Liszt - La Campanella
Clara Schumann - Scherzo #2
Frederic Chopin - any Nocturne

Answer 4

Here's the first piece that comes to mind for each of the following composers for your requirement of "pretty and exciting." Good luck to you! Chopin: Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise Liszt: B minor Sonata Rachmaninoff: a set of the 24 preludes Schumann: Fantasy Beethoven: Sonata, Op. 57 Prokofiev: 6th sonata Debussy: Images book I (book II is my fav, but book I is a bit showier) Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit Brahms: F minor sonata Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition Faure: Nocturnes Franck: Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue Shostakovich: Prelude and Fugue in D minor (#24) Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy

Answer 5

1. Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
2. Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 31 in C, 'Elvira Madigan'
3. Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor

In that order!!

Answer 6

For me I would say
1) Ravel: Jeux d'eau
2) Chopin: Nocturne Op. 9 No. 1
3) Liszt: La Campanella

Answer 7

Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 8, Pathetique, 1st movement
Debussy - Calire de Lune from Suite Bergamasque
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5 - Emperor

Answer 8

It changes everytime something new sticks in my head.

At the moment:
1. Nocturne Op.9 no.2- Chopin
2. Flower Duet- Delibes
3. (especially the lesser known parts of ) The Blue Danube Waltz- Strauss

Answer 9

Chopin -- Ballade in f minor
Debussy -- L'isle Joyeuse
Scriabine -- Piano Sonata #10

I really think the Ballade is one of the finest piano pieces ever written. The scope, the pacing and the pure invention of ideas and the different ways he presents them astound me.

The Debussy shimmers and amd dances and quakes.

Scriabine creates his own world with it's own colors and smells and odd visions.

Answer 10

I'll need to get back to you on this one because I can't recall off the top of my head what the pieces are. Moonlight is a great one, tho, you can really pound the keyboard!! I also love to play Mendelssohn and Grieg. Chopin is also a fab composer for piano, and Rachmaninov, although he's far too difficult for me!!

Answer 11

Appassionata in F Minor, Opus 57 - Beethoven

Jeux d'eau - Ravel

Concerto No. 2 in F, Opus 102 - Shostakovich