Verklarte Nacht by Arnold Schoenberg Wildcard pick is Anthem by Jessie Montgomery
Chopin Nocturne no. 8 op. 27 no. 2 slaps
This piece is a trip. Classical music names are dumb af but what wold you call this piece? It’s beyond words. Fun annotated version here
I cannot thank you enough for these recommendations. Love classical music but don’t venture much outside Bach these days. I miss going to see concerts dearly. Glad you love Yuja too, feel like she gets so much bizarre hate from the Classical Is Honorable and Proud crowd.
Probably a basic bitch answer, but Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue
Solo Piano: some well known, some not
- Impressionist Liszt is best Liszt but Funerailles is great. It was explicitly written in response to the failed 1848 Hungarian Revolution. His B minor piano sonata is also the best piano sonata
- Favorite Debussy is hard but its probably this, L’isle Joyeuse
- Pictures at Exhibition, my favorite recording is with Pletnev but it got taken off youtube so Kissin will do
- Some Spanish flare, Granados’ Goyescas
- I generally prefer early Scriabin like his Fantasie but Vers la flamme is great
- When your parents tell you banging on the piano isn’t music show them this, Three Irish Legends especially the last one you have to smash the piano with both arms
- Of course, the honorable mentions–all of Chopin and Rachmaninoff solo piano works
Everything else:
- Bach Chaconne the original violin, though the piano version is nice too. Contender for the best thing ever written
- All of Mahler (except 4) but especially the Adagietto of the 5th
- Schoenberg before he went into his serialism phase Verklärte Nacht
- Rach 3 I think is my favorite of his piano concertos but 2 is a very close second
- Don’t usually like transcriptions of piano pieces but this one of the Chopin Etude op.25 no.7 is pretty dope
- More modern, Peteris Vasks Vientulais Engelis
- Can’t pick an Arvo Part, listen to all of it
- Richter’s Mercy is my current favorite of his though the one that was in Arrival, On the Nature of Daylight is probably the best
When it comes to banging on a piano I tend to think of the end of Rzewski’s Cotton Mill Blues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UctriMuXYS0 hehehheeh :mao-aggro-shining:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKUdA2AsgXQ heheHEhe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o98d_GouBPQ HEHEHEH
