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nineball9

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Beautiful sound as is his La Mer.
Saint-Saens' Le Cygne (The Swan) would be my top choice.
 

ragazzo

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Originally posted by: nineball9
Beautiful sound as is his La Mer.
Saint-Saens' Le Cygne (The Swan) would be my top choice.

The French song by Charles Trenet, "La Mer" is pretty good too heh

 

jjzelinski

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Originally posted by: Mwilding
Claire De Lune doesn't qualify as it is NOT a song... :roll:


Well hellooooo Mr Fancy pants! :p :)

Ave Maria and Dance Macabre are another two of my all time favorites, so I can easily understand your choices.

I just watched Carmina Burana at my local symphony a couple months back, O Fortuna was pretty amazing.
 

Descartes

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Pathetique by Beethoven. the most complete piano piece ever written.

:thumbsup:

All of his sonatas are absolutely fantastic, but this is definitely one of my favorites. His piano concertos are equally so.
 

Stark

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my current favorite is jeff buckley's cover of leonard cohen's "hallelujah"

I know i'm a few years late.
 

amoeba

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Originally posted by: Descartes
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
Pathetique by Beethoven. the most complete piano piece ever written.

:thumbsup:

All of his sonatas are absolutely fantastic, but this is definitely one of my favorites. His piano concertos are equally so.



although I like his music, Beethoven is really more of a symphony composer instead of a piano composer. His sonatas all sound symphonic, from moonlight to waldstein to pathetique to appassionata. I prefer Chopin and Rachmaninoff for Piano.

Polonaise, Scherzos, etudes, preludes.
 

Descartes

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Originally posted by: amoeba
Originally posted by: Descartes
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
Pathetique by Beethoven. the most complete piano piece ever written.

:thumbsup:

All of his sonatas are absolutely fantastic, but this is definitely one of my favorites. His piano concertos are equally so.



although I like his music, Beethoven is really more of a symphony composer instead of a piano composer. His sonatas all sound symphonic, from moonlight to waldstein to pathetique to appassionata. I prefer Chopin and Rachmaninoff for Piano.

Polonaise, Scherzos, etudes, preludes.

Nine symphonies versus 32 piano sonatas, 5 piano concertos, 11 or so trios that include the piano, and a dozen or so bagetelles. How in the world can you say he was more of a "symphony composer?" Composers in the classical period were far less linear in their mediums than those of the romantic period (using Chopin as your example).

Beethoven was diverse, and calling him a composer of any one type of piece is meaningless.

[edit]I might have misunderstood the spirit of your post. You said they "sound symphonic" about the piano pieces, and when considering their patterns I would tend to agree. If that's what you meant, sorry.[/edit]
 

amoeba

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Originally posted by: Descartes
Originally posted by: amoeba
Originally posted by: Descartes
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
Pathetique by Beethoven. the most complete piano piece ever written.

:thumbsup:

All of his sonatas are absolutely fantastic, but this is definitely one of my favorites. His piano concertos are equally so.



although I like his music, Beethoven is really more of a symphony composer instead of a piano composer. His sonatas all sound symphonic, from moonlight to waldstein to pathetique to appassionata. I prefer Chopin and Rachmaninoff for Piano.

Polonaise, Scherzos, etudes, preludes.

Nine symphonies versus 32 piano sonatas, 5 piano concertos, 11 or so trios that include the piano, and a dozen or so bagetelles. How in the world can you say he was more of a "symphony composer?" Composers in the classical period were far less linear in their mediums than those of the romantic period (using Chopin as your example).

Beethoven was diverse, and calling him a composer of any one type of piece is meaningless.

I'm not saying he didn't produce a lot of piano works. I'm saying most of his piano works sound symphonic. I've played most of everything for piano listed on this thread so far at some point so I am not speaking out of my ass.
Just listen to pathetique.

BUM ba da da da.......dum ba BUM da da de da dum.

then listen to say the 5th symphony.

Pathetique sounds symphonic.