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Personal favorites:

Chopin's Etude Op. 25, No. 1 in A-flat Major (Aeolian Harp Etude).

Get the John Browning (a lost treasure) version off iTunes. Horowitz did it too but he changed a lot of it.

My other personal favorite is Gottschalk's Grand Tarantelle for Piano & Orchestra. Killer piano. Good version on iTunes is Maurice Abravnel with the Utah Symphony but it is available in print as a four-hand reduction.

They say Gottschalk played it all himself. . .

I have Browning's CD of the Etudes.

His 25/1 is by far the best I've ever heard.

Mel

Hopefully I'll have finished Scriabin's C# minor etude op. 2 no. 1 and Chopin's C# minor posthumous nocturne by the new year. And of course to get all the notes of Chopin's 10/1 etude in my fingers.

As far as next year is concerned, I'm looking at perhaps another Chopin nocturne and Scriabin's D# minor etude.

Ultimate dream piece: Liszt's Reminiscences of Norma

I am working on #2 also and it has been a good workout. A little too good actually.

I'd like to complete this one and maybe mozart's C minor fantasy next year. If I can get that done(and some smaller works too) I might feel ready to give the debussy a shot.

Right now it would be Chopin 48/1. Don't know if I will or could ever play those octaves at tempo.

i'm working on Schubert op.90.3 now (through 3 pages) and hopefully get it done this year rather than next year.

I played that Aeolian Harp Etude last year, and it was sooooo hard. I asked my teacher for something difficult over the summer, and that's what I got. I took it to one of my two summer substitute teachers, and he mapped out a plan for learning it, and it worked well. After about ten months, I had it at a decent tempo and got many of the notes right. It hurt my forearm to play, so my regular teacher sent me to the other substitute teacher, and he said, "You play the Harp Etude?" I said, "Well, yes, though not very well. I've been working on it for a long time..." He was still deep in thought, or maybe it was shock. He repeated, "You play the Harp Etude?" I said, "Well, I am trying." Finally, he closed the Chopin book and said, "It's way too hard for you." End of conversation. It was a little blunt, but you know, he was right. It was too hard for me. I was glad I did as well with it as I did, but I think it would be years before I got it up to tempo. It's beautiful, though.

Nancy

I'm a beginner so be easy on me, but I'd like to play Jim Brickman's Rocket to the Moon, from the sheet music, not by ear.

Being able to play Chopin's Berceuse Op. 57. It's the song that inspired me to take up piano.

Nancy,

Yes, it is a lovely, lovely piece!! I checked out the sheet music a while back (with the deluded idea that I could give it a shot), but I got lost with all the notes!

I have two current dream pieces

1. Chopins Nocturne in D flat, opus 27-2. This is an absoloute delight to listen to.

2. Chopins Grand Poloniase Brilliante. THAT piece at the end of the pianist, it is an amazingly beautiful piece.

I am not sure if I will manage in 2007, I hope to learn to play the Lento part of J.S. Bach Triosonate no 6, Gmajor.

I worked on it this summer, but my problem now is I get very little time to play the organ.
I think learning to play with your feet as an adult is a little like learning to play with both hands.

Ragnhild

Too many to list...
Mike White

Mmm, tough question... I got quite a lot of dream pieces, but I actually think that if I only could choose on to play it would be Vocalise by Rachmaninov together with a cello. That would be truly amazing...

Mmm, tough question... I got quite a lot of dream pieces, but I actually think that if I only could choose on to play it would be Vocalise by Rachmaninov together with a cello. That would be truly amazing...