Three beautiful piano pieces to all time

[Tinou]

Hello all !

I think this topic is a good Idea -as long as the answers are original.
If these forums are about highlighting unkown and forgotten composers, these kind of threads can be the places to say "hey, eveyone, check this, it is awesome".
It can be a good place for the Rachmaninomaniacs to discover something else.

I don't have three prefered piano pieces, but, hey everyone, check this, it is awesome:

Lyadov, Prelude Op.11. The perfect miniature. The more I hear it, the more I find it genial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKTb07oYO74

Bach-Liszt -- Prelude and Fuga BWV 543 in A minor (always a pleasure to play). In in one of the many possible interpretations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGLCwQjO ... re=related

Hummel -- Rondo Brilliant op.109 (no known recording). I love Hummel.
http://imslp.org/wiki/Rondo_Brillant,_O ... Nepomuk%29

[Timtin]

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.

Unfortunately, beauty is a purely a subjective matter and cannot be quantified.
Therefore, for simplicity, I assumed that every piece has an equal chance of
being perceived to be beautiful.

[rob]

..."hey, eveyone, check this, it is awesome"...
...it is awesome...

I think I might be about to ban the use of the word 'awesome' (again).

Miscreants will have their privileges restricted to only being able to download Beethoven's Fur Elise, or a Liebestraum or three...

Other suggested suitable punishments invited.

Meanwhile I will move this thread to the MIscellaneous Matters Musical area later this evening. It will be relatively harmless there. And when it gets even more irritatingly puerile it will be consigned to a dustbin to rot slowly and sweetly...

[HullandHellandHalifax]

..."hey, eveyone, check this, it is awesome"...
...it is awesome...

I think I might be about to ban the use of the word 'awesome' (again).

Miscreants will have their privileges restricted to only being able to download Beethoven's Fur Elise, or a Liebestraum or three...

Other suggested suitable punishments invited.

Meanwhile I will move this thread to the MIscellaneous Matters Musical area later this evening. It will be relatively harmless there. And when it gets even more irritatingly puerile it will be consigned to a dustbin to rot slowly and sweetly...

Especially for Rob perhaps we ought to have a thread for either the three most annoying pieces ever written or the three most annoying words ever used, which I can guess as 1. awesome, 2. mega, 3 song (always irritatingly used to describe a non-vocal composition nowadays)
I leave the pieces to him, he has far more knowledge of the rubbish ever composed and recorded than I have.
regards
Brian

[Duirton]

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.

Unfortunately, beauty is a purely a subjective matter and cannot be quantified.
Therefore, for simplicity, I assumed that every piece has an equal chance of
being perceived to be beautiful.

Fur Elise can not be never at the same level of the Liszt Sonata. Must trying to be a more objectives and honest possible; the own musical preference not be ever the best.

[lebowl]

I think the three most beautiful are:
1. Messiaen Vingt Regards XIX "Je dors mais mon coeur veille"
2. Scriabin Poeme Op.32 No.1
3. Cage "In a landscape"

[Duirton]

I think the three most beautiful are:
1. Messiaen Vingt Regards XIX "Je dors mais mon coeur veille"
2. Scriabin Poeme Op.32 No.1
3. Cage "In a landscape"

Like a Brian; great fantasy . . .

[Timtin]

So much for probability theory!

[rob]

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.

Unfortunately, beauty is a purely a subjective matter and cannot be quantified.
Therefore, for simplicity, I assumed that every piece has an equal chance of
being perceived to be beautiful.

Fur Elise can not be never at the same level of the Liszt Sonata. Must trying to be a more objectives and honest possible; the own musical preference not be ever the best.

You're obviously NOT understanding the humour at all... And I loathe and detest the Liszt Sonata...

I will allow this thread to last maybe another day or two

Meanwhile - not being a HUGE fan of the percussion instrument you all adore - I will treat you to the three symphonies which I admire enormously and probably play on CD the most:
1. Mahler Symphony 10 (various 'completions' & performers)
2. Franz Schmidt Symphony 4 with Zubin Mehta and the Vienna Philharmonic
3. William Walton Symphony 2 with George Szell & the Cleveland Orchestra

But tomorrow my list might be different (apart from the Walton).

[Arjuna]

I don't think this thread is stupid but, like about 80% of this threads on this site, it's bound to get boring very quickly.
Anyway, in my opinion, if your looking for beautiful music you can't go past Takashi Yoshimatsu. His Piano concerto, Threnody to Toki for piano and strings and the Pleiades Dances for piano are all mega awesome songs.
Also, and I know it's not for piano, but, Gorecki's 3rd symphony has to be up there as one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written (despite it's popularity).