Favorite Pieces

What are your favorite pieces in each of the following genres:

Symphony, String Quartet, Piano Concerto, Instrumental Concerto, Opera, Ballet, Piano Sonata, Violin Sonata, Cello Sonata, Piano Trio, Quintet, etc.

What are your favorite pieces in each of the following genres:

Symphony, String Quartet, Piano Concerto, Instrumental Concerto, Opera, Ballet, Piano Sonata, Violin Sonata, Cello Sonata, Piano Trio, Quintet, etc.

Symphony - Mahler's 2nd

String Quartet - One of Grieg's, I can't recall the exact name

Piano Concerto - Rachmaninov's 3rd

Instrumental Concerto? If you mean something other than Piano, My favorite would be Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D

Opera - The Magic Flute

Ballet - Not really into Ballet

Piano Sonata - Prokofiev's 2nd

Violin Sonata - Tartini - The Devil's Trill

Cello Sonata - Don't have a favorite

Piano Trio - Beethoven Piano trio in Eb Major

Quintet - Don't really have a favorite

What are your favorite pieces in each of the following genres:

Symphony, String Quartet, Piano Concerto, Instrumental Concerto, Opera, Ballet, Piano Sonata, Violin Sonata, Cello Sonata, Piano Trio, Quintet, etc.

Symphony : There's so many good ones. I guess my favourites are Tchaikovsky 4 (f), Brahms 4 (e), Mahler 1 (D), Beethoven 9 (d).

String Quartet : Schoenberg No. 2

Piano Concerto : Brahms Second Piano Concerto (Bb)

Instrumental Concerto : Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (D)

Opera : Not really into opera.

Ballet : The Nutcracker Tchaikovsky

Piano Sonata : There are so many. Umm, Beethoven 29 Hammerklavier (Bb), Beethoven 30 (E), Beethoven 32 ©, Scriabin No. 10

Violin Sonata : I admit to not having listened to too many, although I plan to. I like Beethoven's Kreutzer (A).

Symphony - All 4 Symphonies of Brahms and Shostakovich's 5th

String Quartet - Brahms' 1st and 2nd

Piano Concerto - Bach D minor 1052 and Brahm's 1st in D minor(I love the ugly trills in the beginning)

Instrumental Concerto - Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor and Glazon's

Opera - I've only watched one, but I loved Puccini's Madame Butterfly

Ballet - Stravinsky's Petrushka (Suite)

Piano Sonata - can't chose maybe Beethoven's last Sonata No. 32 or Hammerklavier

Violin Sonata - Brahms 2nd in A minor op.100

Cello Sonata - Brahms 2nd in F minor

Piano Trio - Brahms 2nd and Mendelssohn's 1st in D minor(1st half)

Quintet - Brahms' Quintet in F minor

Symphony - it's a toss-up between Copland 3, Vaughn Williams 5, and Beethoven 7

String Quartet - Crawford-Seeger, String Quartet (1931)

String Concerto - Barber, Violin Concerto, Op. 14

Wind Concerto - Copland, Clarinet Concerto (Op. 18, I think)

Opera - Puccini, La Boheme

Ballet - Feeney, Dracula

Piano Sonata - Barber, Op. 26

Violin Sonata - Ravel, Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major

Symphony Beethoven no. 5

String Quartet Dvorak's American

Piano Concerto Grieg A minor or Tchaikovsky no. 1

Instrumental Concerto Beethoven's violin concerto in D

Opera Does Handel's Messiah count?

Ballet Tchaikovsky Nutcracker

Piano Sonata Mozart's later sonatas

Violin Sonata Brahms violin sonata no 1 in G major

I have got to start remembering opus numbers!!

String Quartet: Dvorak's American.

Only one that stands one right now.

What are your favorite pieces in each of the following genres:

Symphony, String Quartet, Piano Concerto, Instrumental Concerto, Opera, Ballet, Piano Sonata, Violin Sonata, Cello Sonata, Piano Trio, Quintet, etc.

Symphony - too many good ones to list. Probably Brahms #1, but Brahms #2, Brahms #4, Shostakovich #5, Kalinnikov #1, Mendelssohn #3, Beethoven #7, and Hanson #2 are up there.

String Quartet - Borodin, #2

Piano Concerto - Rheinberger

Opera - Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg

Ballet - Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet

Piano Sonata - not a fan of solo piano in general, but I'll list Beethoven's Waldstein sonata

Violin Sonata - Brahms, #1

Cello Sonata - Borodin

Piano Trio - Brahms, #1

String Concerto - Walton, Viola Concerto

Wind Concerto - R. Strauss, Horn Concerto #1

Quintet - Brahms, Piano Quintet

Fav Symphonies - Prokovief's 'Classical' Symphony, Beethovens 3rd, Mendelsohnns 1st Symphony in C, Haydn's Toy Symphony. Mozarts Linz symphony.

Fav Piano Concerto - Chopin's no 1, Rachmaninov's 3rd, Beethovens 1st.

Mozarts 20th and 21st.

Fav Opera's - a couple The Mariage of Figaro, The Barber of Seville, The Operettas of WS Gilbert and A Sullivan: The Mikado, HMS Pinafore.

Fav Ballet - Tchaikovsky's The NutCracker, Swan Lake.

Fav Piano Sonatas: Mozart's Cmaj k.543, A minor k.331, Beethoven's Hammerklavier, Pathenque, and Appassionata... Moonlight if I need to mellow out... heh...

Fav Violin Sonatas Beethovens Kriezer(sp) , Spring sonata in F, Edvard Griegs 2 sonatas (keys escape me at the moment,) FXW Mozart's F maj and Bb Maj Sonatas. As for Viola Sonatas... Lanes Sonata No 3. (the Scherzo rocks)

Fav Cello Sonatas: All of Beethoven, but my fav are his G minor, and Dmaj. One obscure piece worth mentioning is Chopin's C minor Sonata for Cello and Piano. Boccherini, and Vivaldi... to round this one out.

Fav Piano Trio: None...

Fav String Concertos: Corelli's Christmas Concerto, Telemanns Viola Concerto, Vivaldi's Double Cello Concerto in G, and his A minor for two violins. Mozarts Grande Concertante for Violin and Viola. Bach's Double Violin Concerto in D.

Fav Wind Concerto's: Mozarts Clarinet Concerto in A, and his four Horn Concerti, Carl Maria von Webers Concerto's for Clarinet, Vivaldis Flute Concertos.

Fav Piano Quintets: Schuberts "The Trout"

Symphonies: Beethoven's 5th and 9th, all of Brahms' and Rachmaninoff's

Concerti: Brahms' Double concerto, Vivaldi's Celo concerto in Am RV419 and Bach's Bradenburg concerto number 4.

Symphony - Hanson Symphony No. 2 - "Romantic"

String Quartet - Prokofiev No. 2

Piano Concerto - Tschaikowsky No. 1

Instrumental Concerto - Spohr Clarinet Concerto in C minor

Opera - Verdi Aida

Ballet - Tschaikowsky Swan Lake

Piano Sonata - Beethoven C Minor or Mozart C Major

Cello Sonata - Schubert Arpeggione

Symphony - Hanson Symphony No. 2 - "Romantic"

String Quartet - Prokofiev No. 2

Piano Concerto - Tschaikowsky No. 1

Instrumental Concerto - Spohr Clarinet Concerto in C minor

Opera - Verdi Aida

Ballet - Tschaikowsky Swan Lake

Piano Sonata - Beethoven C Minor or Mozart C Major

Cello Sonata - Schubert Arpeggione

Beethoven wrote three C minor piano sonatas. Which one are you referring to?

Symphony: Hmm. hard to say. Though rachmaninoff's symphonies were brilliant. I liked beethoven's 9th.

Piano concerto: Piano concerto no. 1 in Bb minor by tchaikovsky. And i like Rachmaninoff's piano concerto in c minor.

Instrumental concerto: The Brahms violin concerto

Opera: Don Giovanni, The marriage of figaro, the magic flute.

Ballet: The nutcracker.

String quartet: Heard way too many to decide.

Piano sonata: Sonate in D major K284. Mozart

Cello sonata: who knows.

Piano quintet: Piano quintet in Eb major, Robert schumann. The trout quintet by schubert.

Beethoven wrote three C minor piano sonatas. Which one are you referring to?

Pathetique...

Here's some more of my favorite pieces...

Prokofiev - Alexander Nevsky Cantata

Mozart - Requiem in D minor

Khatchiturian - Adagio of Sparticus and Phrygia

Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Gorecki - Symphony No. 3 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs"

Part - Misere

Berlioz - March from the Damnation of Faust

Cage - Bachanale

Poulenc - Impromptu No. 3 Tres Modere

Puccini - Nessun Dorma from Turandot

Rousse - Flute Concerto

Glass - Songs from Liquid Days

Verdi - Requiem

Faure - Requiem (probably the best overall requiem there is...)

Respighi - Pines of Rome

Rimsey-Korsakov - Russian Easter Festival Overture

DeMeij - Symphony No. 2 "Lord of the Rings" (Not music from the film - this is a completely different composer - It's popular in the Band world...)

Barber - Overture to the School for Scandal

Saint-Saens - Phaeton

Bernstein -

Overture to Candide

Offertory from Mass

Profanation from Jerehmiah Symphony

Glass -

From Witchita Vortex Sutra

Uakti

The Grid

Einstein on the Beach

Sparke - Lento for the Brass (Dance Movements mvt. 3)

Britten -

Variations on a theme of Purcell (Young person's guide to the orchestra)

Ballad of Heroes

Vaughn-Williams - English Folk Song Suite

Rutter -

For the Beauty of the Earth

Mass of the Children

All Things Bright and Beautiful

Elgar - Symphony No. 1

Shostakovich -

Symphony No. 5

Symphony No. 9

Evening Reverie from "The Golden Age"

Kabalevsky - Overture to Colas Bregnon

Glinka -

Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla

Russian Sailor's Dance from "The Red Poppy"

Arensky - Basso Ostinato

Ives - Country Band March

Lalo - Symphonie Espagnole

MacDowell - To a Wild Rose

Leoncavallo - Vesti la giubba from "Pagliacci"

Mussorsky - Promenade from "Pictures at an Exhibiton"

Orff - Carmina Burana

Maybe I'll post some more when I get bored, but that's a pretty decent sized list of pieces...

Symphony: Mahler's 3d, String Quartet: Mozart's Dissonance Quartet, Piano Concerto: N/A I don't follow piano music much, Instrumental concerto: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in D Minor by Lalo, Carmen?, Whatchamacallit? I forget. Something by Leo Delibe, The one I wrote in the key of G Minor, N/A, Sonata in E Minor by Brahms, Trio for Viola Cello and Piano in A Minor by Brahms, Schubert's Trout Quintet. etc.

Symphony, Symph no. 40 - Mozart

Piano Quintet, The Trout - Schubert

Piano Concerto, Grieg (he only wrote one :toothygrin:)

Instrumental Concerto, Brandenburg - Bach

Opera, Porgy and Bess - Gershwin

Ballet, Only seen one. The Nutcracker - (Don't make me spell it)

Piano Sonata, Pathetique - Beethoven

All-time favourite random piece? Rhapsody in Blue - Gershwin

Symphony - Tchaikovsky's 6th.

String Quartet - Shostakovich's 3rd.

Piano Concerto - Mozart's 20th.

Instrumental Concerto - Mozart's Clarinet Concerto.

Piano Sonata - Beethoven's Appasionata.

Need to do this again, things have changed a lot:

Symphony: Brahms - Symphony number 3

String Quartet: Beethoven - Der Grosse Fuge

Piano Concerto: Grieg - Piano Concerto in A minor

Opera: Not too into opera

Ballet: ditto

Piano Sonata:

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• Beethoven - Appassionata
  
• Beethoven - Pathetique
  
• Grieg - Piano Sonata in E minor

You know Grieg's piano sonata is an apprentice work, right? I like some parts of it, but mostly it's just.... meh.

As for the Beethoven sonatas, nice choices. Though I prefer no. 16, 18, 29 and 32. 16 and 18 are comedic masterpieces.

I love pretty much everything Grieg ever wrote, and need to find more.

Those are the only two Beethoven Sonatas I know well, I need more.

Symphony - Shostakovich 10th

String Quartet - Shostakovich 15th

Piano Concerto - Bartok 2nd

Instrumental Concerto - Violin Concerto N

symphony - Jupiter (mozart) the 4th mvt is phenomenal.

string quartet - Emperor (haydn) the mathematicalness of this piece makes me feel as if..."my brain's active".

piano concerto - Mozart's no 20 and no 21. Schumann's concerto in a minor.

instrumental concerto - Mendelssohn's violin concerto, Mozart's clarinet concerto.

opera - Marriage of Figaro

ballet - dont listen to much ballets..... i really like the Tchaikovsky ones though.

piano sonata - Appasionata (beethoven)

violin sonata - Brahms no1

cello sonata - i dont listen to them much.

piano trio - beethoven's trio in c minor. (is it c minor?)

quintet - Trout. (lol, its one of the only ones i listen to)

What are your favorite pieces in each of the following genres:

Symphony, String Quartet, Piano Concerto, Instrumental Concerto, Opera, Ballet, Piano Sonata, Violin Sonata, Cello Sonata, Piano Trio, Quintet, etc.

Symphony - Schubert's fourth

Opera - I've only heard Orpheus in Underworld

Piano etude - Alkan's first of the Trois