What is your favorite piano song?

[Phlegmak]

Golliwogg's Cake Walk

Debussy

or maybe this one:

Linus and Lucy

Vince Guaraldi

 

[Sparta]

I played The Entertainer on a piano Elvis used to play when I was a little kid on vacation (cheesy, I know, but the tourist crowd ate it up ). I can't remember where that was now (I was quite young) - some former recording studio that has since become a tourist location or something in Tennessee I think (not Graceland; never been).

As to the actual question, I don't really know very many pieces, but I was always partial to Tchaikovsky's Symphony Number Seven (one of the relatively few noteworthy pieces I could once play from memory). I always really liked [what little I knew of] Tchaikovsky's work. Haven't played the piano in over a decade now though .

 

[Irish Caesar]

Tom Petty - Melinda

Saw him about a year ago, and there was a big long piano solo in that song--it was incredible.

 

[Sidhe]

I played The Entertainer on a piano Elvis used to play when I was a little kid on vacation (cheesy, I know, but the tourist crowd ate it up ). I can't remember where that was now (I was quite young) - some former recording studio that has since become a tourist location or something in Tennessee I think (not Graceland; never been).

As to the actual question, I don't really know very many pieces, but I was always partial to Tchaikovsky's Symphony Number Seven (one of the relatively few noteworthy pieces I could once play from memory). I always really liked [what little I knew of] Tchaikovsky's work. Haven't played the piano in over a decade now though .

Well I can't find it, I can find a composition called the 7th but it was written in the 20th century long after his death and their is no music for it? Are you sure you meant 7th, he died after writing the 6th? If you are do you have a link?

 

[Lambert Simnel]

Hmm, Tchaikovsky only wrote 6 symphonies....

And I have suspect (perhaps uncharitably) when everyone is saying they know Beethoven's 5th, they're referring to his 5th symphony, and not his 5th piano concerto (which YNCS was actually referring to). Beethoven's 5th symphony doesn't feature a piano, nor do any of Tchaikovsky's symphonies (AFAIK, but I'm fairly sure).

 

[Sidhe]

http://www.chandos.net/Sounds/WMAFiles/CHAN6612.wma

Yes he means this one, my mistake, it wasn't clear from the post or I misread it one of the two, I do that alot.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Hmm, Tchaikovsky only wrote 6 symphonies....

That is why i couldn't find it anywhere...

 

[Sparta]

Well I can't find it, I can find a composition called the 7th but it was written in the 20th century long after his death and their is no music for it? Are you sure you meant 7th, he died after writing the 6th? If you are do you have a link?

It's been a long, long time, but I really thought it was the 7th . All I've been able to find was a blurb on Wiki, claiming it may have been re-assembled from an earlier work he'd never finished (it appears, as you two have mentioned, that the sixth was his last finished work). Like I'd said though, I'm really not that knowledgeable about classical music; I just remember playing a particular song (which may have not been the 7th if my memory is faulty) and liking it a lot. Apologies if I was mistaken - I know there was some piano song attributed to Tchaikovsky that I'd really liked and used to be able to play, but I may well be mistaken in thinking it was the 7th. I tried googling to see if I could identify it, but am having no luck in stumbling onto a copy of the sheet music. I'm really sorry for any confusion I may have caused.

After Tchaikovsky's death, the composer Sergei Taneyev completed and orchestrated the Andante and Finale. (These were published as Op. 79.) A reconstruction of the original symphony from the sketches and various reworkings was accomplished during 1951–1955 by the Soviet composer Semyon Bogatyrev, who brought the symphony into finished, fully orchestrated form and issued the score as Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 7 in E-flat major.[1]
link

 

[Sidhe]

Try using Singing fish to find it and let us know, it might be one of the other symphonys you mean?

If it exists it's very rare, I can't find any trace of it as a peice of music anywhere on the net. All I see is performances but no recordings.

Shame


http://search.singingfish.com/sfw/search?last_query=bach&a_submit=1&aw=1&sfor=av&dur=1&fmp3=1&freal=1&favi=1&fmpeg=1&fwin=1&fqt=1&cmus=1&rpp=20&persist=1&exp=0&query=Tchaikovsky&x=0&y=0&adult_results=&a_eml_search=1&email_type=2

 

[Kyriakos]

It was the soundtrack of a cracked computer game i had for Amstrad, and it immediately impressed me.
The moonlight sonata

 

[Heretic_Cata]

The moonlight sonata

Hey, i have a cool rave mix of that. I'll check out the original one now that you mentioned it.

 

[Sidhe]

http://mp3.cdbaby.com/a/alciatore-01.mp3

I'll save you the effort of looking for it

 

[Heretic_Cata]

^
That is nice. So peacefull.
Too bad it was short.

 

[Sparta]

Try using Singing fish to find it and let us know, it might be one of the other symphonys you mean?

If it exists it's very rare, I can't find any trace of it as a peice of music anywhere on the net. All I see is performances but no recordings.

Shame


http://search.singingfish.com/sfw/search?last_query=bach&a_submit=1&aw=1&sfor=av&dur=1&fmp3=1&freal=1&favi=1&fmpeg=1&fwin=1&fqt=1&cmus=1&rpp=20&persist=1&exp=0&query=Tchaikovsky&x=0&y=0&adult_results=&a_eml_search=1&email_type=2

Thank you, Sidhe, but I unfortunately had no luck either . I looked through that entire listing, and tried numerous other ones in case I was just remembering incorrectly, but was unable to find the one I was referring to. I tried looking all over for sheet music as well, in case I'd recognize it, but had no luck with that either (I even called my poor mother to see if she could find it in the piano bench, to no avail!). This is driving me crazy though - don't be surprised if I resurrect this thread years from now once I am finally able to establish for sure what it was I was actually remembering. May well have been the Bogatyrev reconstruction, but I really want to find out for sure now someday - I'd never been aware of the story behind it before. Thank you though for your help in my search and the link to the cool site.

 

[Tenochtitlan]

I'd have to go with Joe Sample - Hippies on the Corner. But then again I like jazz.

 

[Richard Cribb]

For me, Chopin is the undisputed king of the piano.
It is difficult to chose a favourite, but I think I will go with Mazurka in A minor, op.13.

 

[Kyriakos]

I used to have a recording of Alfred Cortot's of Chopin's funeral march (third sonata? i dont remember) It is very impressive

I dont have many classical pieces stored in my pc, and most of them are by Grieg.

 

[Sidhe]

I can't find the specific versions but here they are I'd go with chopin myself

But how about Rachmaninov for sheer virtuosity?

http://www.classicalmidiresource.com/site/cmmmp3/rachmaninov_prelude_no.mp3

Rachmaninov^

The others by Chopin:-

http://jnjmuse.cnei.or.kr/musicbox_2/chopin_mazurka_C_major.mp3

http://search.singingfish.com/sfw/s...ral+march&x=0&y=0&a_eml_search=1&email_type=2

 

[Richard Cribb]

I used to have a recording of Alfred Cortot's of Chopin's funeral march (third sonata? i dont remember) It is very impressive

I think it is from the 2nd sonata, and yes it is great.

I dont have many classical pieces stored in my pc, and most of them are by Grieg.

My wife also loves Grieg.
For those interested in classical piano music, give Christian Sindings' piano concerto a try. It is much less known than the one by Grieg, but in my opinion undeservedly so.

 

[Sidhe]

Please let me know if posting the music referred to in links is annoying, I just thought it would be helpful from a context point of view if people know which bits of music you are referring to, because of the lack of referrance, if people are annoyed by it I'll stop. np