Good Piano Songs

Stojakapimp · May 14, 2003

Moonlight Sonata

Platypus · May 14, 2003

Check out Franz Lizt - Hungarian Rhapsody, one of my favourites to play (back when I could)

Stojakapimp · May 14, 2003

Also check out David Lanz. Or Suzanne Ch...ah, i forget her last name...nevermind

luckydragon · May 14, 2003

ben folds five - brick

nan0bug · May 14, 2003

Tori Amos - Butterfly

AUMM · May 14, 2003

dont wanna try - Frankie J

calpha · May 14, 2003

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Check out Franz Lizt - Hungarian Rhapsody, one of my favourites to play (back when I could)

If you could play the whole thing, and not just the famous "cartoon" part then I bow.

As far as technical piano pieces------most Lizst stuff is awesome. Damn, I forget the name of that concerto.........

But for me.....I have a few favorite pieces....none of which I can play.

Beethoven----Emperor's Concerto----(might be wrong name----Van Cliburn played it in the Russian competition in the 60s)
Chopin---Polonaise in A-Flat Minor----Horowitz had a famous performance of that
Tchaiykovsky (sp)---Concerto #1

Damn, it's too late...my brain isn't working----I can't think of the names now. I think Lizst--Concerto #3----it was the one that David Helfgot played in the movie Shine.

Moonlight sonata--3rd Movement

dolph · May 14, 2003

some of my favs:

fantasie impromptu - chopin
"revolutionary" etude (c# minor) - chopin
1st movement of "pathetique" sonata
3rd movement of "moonlight" sonata - beethoven
rhapsody, g minor - brahms
prelude c# minor - rachmaninoff

and yep, i played them all.

sorry for not having opus/#s.

bolomite · May 14, 2003

Franz Liszt - Un Sospiro, Liebestraum no. 3 in A-flat, "La Campanella" etude

Frederic Chopin - seriously, almost anything is pretty good. I recommend the four Ballades, and maybe Scherzo no. 3

btw, it was Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto in Shine, but I prefer the 2nd in C minor, played by Evgeny Kissin

Platypus · May 14, 2003

Originally posted by: calpha

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Check out Franz Lizt - Hungarian Rhapsody, one of my favourites to play (back when I could)

Click to expand...

If you could play the whole thing, and not just the famous "cartoon" part then I bow.

As far as technical piano pieces------most Lizst stuff is awesome. Damn, I forget the name of that concerto.........

But for me.....I have a few favorite pieces....none of which I can play.

Beethoven----Emperor's Concerto----(might be wrong name----Van Cliburn played it in the Russian competition in the 60s)
Chopin---Polonaise in A-Flat Minor----Horowitz had a famous performance of that
Tchaiykovsky (sp)---Concerto #1

Damn, it's too late...my brain isn't working----I can't think of the names now. I think Lizst--Concerto #3----it was the one that David Helfgot played in the movie Shine.

Moonlight sonata--3rd Movement

Yeah I did play the whole thing. I took 11 years of classical piano training. I played the 3rd movement of Moonlight Sonata from memory when I was 12 years old (12 pages of music). My greatest accomplishments were that Lizt piece, and Edward MacDowell's Praeludium

calpha · May 14, 2003

Yeah I did play the whole thing. I took 11 years of classical piano training. I played the 3rd movement of Moonlight Sonata from memory when I was 12 years old (12 pages of music). My greatest accomplishments were that Lizt piece, and Edward MacDowell's Praeludium

Awesome. I didn't start piano until I was 16....I played trumpet since I was 12....so I could read fine---but I just didn't start piano early enough to develop the dexterity that people get when playing from an early age. I could play parts of Chopin's polonaise---but not up to speed.

But 12 years of classical training----I wish like hell I would have had the skills for that. the whole hungarian rhapsody is one of my favorite pieces to hear performed live. My music theory professor in college was actually lucky enough to have attended concerts by both Horowitz and Van Cliburn when he was getting his PhD in New York.

I don't know who I envy more---peopel with loads of classical training---or those that are just gifted out of this world......I went to school with a guy that had the closest thing to perfect pitch combined with a photographic memory for music. I really liked Harry Connick Jr's "Winterland Medly" from When Harry met sally, and that sorry SOB (my college friend) sat down and listened to it for about 10 minutes and then played it. Bastard. But then again, that hardly compares to the 60 minute special I saw in 1994/1995 about a 12 yr old kid attending Juliard.......

datalink7 · May 14, 2003

Download everything by Chopin.

agnitrate · May 14, 2003

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation

Originally posted by: calpha

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Check out Franz Lizt - Hungarian Rhapsody, one of my favourites to play (back when I could)

Click to expand...

If you could play the whole thing, and not just the famous "cartoon" part then I bow.

As far as technical piano pieces------most Lizst stuff is awesome. Damn, I forget the name of that concerto.........

But for me.....I have a few favorite pieces....none of which I can play.

Beethoven----Emperor's Concerto----(might be wrong name----Van Cliburn played it in the Russian competition in the 60s)
Chopin---Polonaise in A-Flat Minor----Horowitz had a famous performance of that
Tchaiykovsky (sp)---Concerto #1

Damn, it's too late...my brain isn't working----I can't think of the names now. I think Lizst--Concerto #3----it was the one that David Helfgot played in the movie Shine.

Moonlight sonata--3rd Movement

Click to expand...

Yeah I did play the whole thing. I took 11 years of classical piano training. I played the 3rd movement of Moonlight Sonata from memory when I was 12 years old (12 pages of music). My greatest accomplishments were that Lizt piece, and Edward MacDowell's Praeludium

I can play Peter Peter Pumpkin-eater.

Recommendation :

I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain, the only thing that's real
the needle tears a whole, the old familiar friend
tried to kill it all away, but I remember everything....

-silver

Platypus · May 14, 2003

Originally posted by: calpha

Yeah I did play the whole thing. I took 11 years of classical piano training. I played the 3rd movement of Moonlight Sonata from memory when I was 12 years old (12 pages of music). My greatest accomplishments were that Lizt piece, and Edward MacDowell's Praeludium

Click to expand...

Awesome. I didn't start piano until I was 16....I played trumpet since I was 12....so I could read fine---but I just didn't start piano early enough to develop the dexterity that people get when playing from an early age. I could play parts of Chopin's polonaise---but not up to speed.

But 12 years of classical training----I wish like hell I would have had the skills for that. the whole hungarian rhapsody is one of my favorite pieces to hear performed live. My music theory professor in college was actually lucky enough to have attended concerts by both Horowitz and Van Cliburn when he was getting his PhD in New York.

I don't know who I envy more---peopel with loads of classical training---or those that are just gifted out of this world......I went to school with a guy that had the closest thing to perfect pitch combined with a photographic memory for music. I really liked Harry Connick Jr's "Winterland Medly" from When Harry met sally, and that sorry SOB (my college friend) sat down and listened to it for about 10 minutes and then played it. Bastard. But then again, that hardly compares to the 60 minute special I saw in 1994/1995 about a 12 yr old kid attending Juliard.......

Heh you're going to hate me further. I could read music perfectly, but I couldn't "feel" written music so I would memorize the notes off the page and then apply my own style and feeling to them. I guess that music is one of my natural abilities. I would play every piece I ever learned from memory without the music. I often would just close my eyes and try to visualize what I was playing and I could see the music in my head. My instructor hated that about me, because she said she wished she could play like that. I hated it though because I wish I could just sit down and play something from a book, but I have to learn it in my head first.

Platypus · May 14, 2003

Haha, I played something for you didn't I Brian?

edit: yeah, brian got to hear the intro to my macdowell masterpiece

jcwagers · May 14, 2003

Bruce Hornsby - Mandolin Rain, The Way It Is, The Valley Road

UncleWai · May 14, 2003

Any Final Fantasy Piano sound tracks you can find....

calpha · May 14, 2003

When I played....I always played from memory. Mostly that came from my high school wind ensemble----we played pretty tough stuff for high schoolers, and by the time we went to competitions I always just watched the conductor 100% of the time b/c I had all the music memorized. That's the only gift I ever had for music---I never had to try to learn something---I just did. But as far as hearing something without the music and playing it in a matter of minutes----I could never do that. I could pound it out.....but nothing near what the bastards with perfect pitch could do.

The hardest stuff I ever played was probably the real piano music of billy and Elton (not just the melody----but the actual piano piece). Funeral For a friend was the hardest thing I learned.....but my chops are gone and I can't play the hard part anymore.

agnitrate · May 14, 2003

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Haha, I played something for you didn't I Brian?

edit: yeah, brian got to hear the intro to my macdowell masterpiece

p.s. They don't know my name is Brian

-silver

bolomite · May 14, 2003

as an aside, if you ever have the opportunity, go see Evgeny Kissin play live, you won't regret it. He is the closest thing we have in the modern day to Franz Liszt.

calpha · May 14, 2003

Originally posted by: jcwagers
Bruce Hornsby - Mandolin Rain, The Way It Is, The Valley Road

Bruce can play----I think he went to Juliard ?

TheCorm · May 14, 2003

Coldplay - Clocks

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