Pianophilia

For you, what are the three more beautiful piano pieces of ever?

Duirton wrote:For you, what are the three more beautiful piano pieces of ever?

Only three? you make life difficult, but not impossibly difficult...here's my starter for three

1. Messiaen Vingt Regards XIX "Je dors mais mon coeur veille"
2. Scriabin Poeme Op.32 No.1
3. Cage "In a landscape"

hope some of you will agree
regards
Brian

I'm partial to the key of F sharp/G flat major, so (pedestrianly so) mine are:
1. Beethoven F sharp major sonata (you know, the one in 2 movements)
2. Chopin Barcarolle
3. Schubert Impromptu in G flat

I'm not very keen on this rather puerile kind of thread, and I'm not sure I want it cluttering up this part of the Forum. Similar threads are very heavily discouraged. I will ponder what to do with it. Meanwhile, please no-one suggest Beethoven Fur Elise or I will probably ban you!!!!

rob wrote:Meanwhile, please no-one suggest Beethoven Fur Elise or I will probably ban you!!!!

Pace Rob...

Anyway, we know what the 100 'top' piano pieces are, because ABC Classic FM exhaustively surveyed their listenership and came up with the definitive list a few years ago. Done and dusted. We even played them in simultaneous concerts in Sydney and Melbourne... I probably have it lying around somewhere. Fred? (I realise 'top' and 'beautiful' aren't the same but whatever...)

My personal top three, this week:

1. David Guion "Brudder Sinkiller and his Flock of Sheep"
2. Serge Lancen "Zwiefache"
3. Perks "A Bridal Lullaby"

You know, there's never a stupid question. Just like there is the high school standard answer to a question like "What reforms did Frederick the Great make to strengthen the Prussian state in the 18th century?", there's also the college-level answer and the Ph. D.'s.
(Mine obviously was the high school-level...who the heck is Perks?)

Perks = Percy Grainger (his nickname...)

Hopefully this thread will be deleted. If you allow one, you get hundreds as on pianostreets.

Before it is zapped, here are mine.

Beethoven - Moonfright Sonata
Chopin - Brainclot Prelude
Sorabji - Fantasia è troppo lungo noioso di gran lunga troppe note e infine tu morirai per esaurimento o per vecchiaia.

Thal

HullandHellandHalifax wrote:

Duirton wrote:For you, what are the three more beautiful piano pieces of ever?

Only three? you make life difficult, but not impossibly difficult...here's my starter for three

1. Messiaen Vingt Regards XIX "Je dors mais mon coeur veille"
2. Scriabin Poeme Op.32 No.1
3. Cage "In a landscape"

hope some of you will agree
regards
Brian

I think that the statistical chance of anyone actually agreeing is incredibly small!
If there are 100,001 possible piano pieces to chose from, then the probability of
someone else selecting the above three (in any order at all) is a mere 1/((10^15)-(10^5)).

Timtin wrote: I think that the statistical chance of anyone actually agreeing is incredibly small!
If there are 100,001 possible piano pieces to chose from, then the probability of
someone else selecting the above three (in any order at all) is a mere 1/((10^15)-(10^5)).

This would be true only if the probability of chosing any piano piece as the most beautiful were equal, which is obviously not the case.