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Hello fellow forum junkies!  I thought it would be a cool idea if I asked about your favorite pieces of music. Please list one current absolute favorite piece for each of the following: -Solo Piano -Orchestra -Piano Concerto My example would be: -Ballade No.1(Chopin) -Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun(Debussy) -Piano Concerto No.23(Mozart) If there is another kind of work you would like to add to the list, by all means please do so!
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Solo: Alkan Concerto for Solo Piano
Orchestra: Brahms 4th Symphony
Concerto: Brahms 1st
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Solo: Liszt - Piano Sonata in B Minor.
Orchestra: Liszt - Les Preludes.
Concerto: Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 3.
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Solo: Liszt Benediction
Orchestra: Schubert's B minor, 2nd movement
Concerto: Gabriel Pierne's C minor
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Solo - Gaspard De La Nuit
Orchestra - Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Concerto - Saint-Saens 5th
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^ ^ I like your taste!! 
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^ ^ I like your taste!! And I like yours! Don't often see one put Brahms 1 in front of 2...I too prefer the D Minor.
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My answers might be different tomorrow, but today they are:
Solo piano: Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus
Orchestra: Mahler 9
Piano concerto: Bartók 3
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Current favs
Chopin Nocturne #7 (in C# min?) Op. 27/1
Bruckner 8 in C min
Beethoven's 4th PCon
Extras, just for yuks:
Chamber: Saint Saens piano quartet
String q: Borodin 2
String concerto: Bruch violin
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. -Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
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^ ^ I like your taste!! Thanks! I know you're a big Alkan guy, and I would put the Concerto for Solo Piano as a close 2nd place for me.
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Solo: Prokofiev - Sonata No. 7
Orchestra: Scelsi - Aion
Concerto: Ligeti
I have an ice cream. I cannot mail it, for it will melt.
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current favorites
Solo piano: Ravel - Toccata
Orchestra: Mahler 8
Piano concerto: Scriabin
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Solo: Liszt - Sonata in B Minor.
Orchestra: Brahms 4th Symphony
Concerto: Brahms 1st
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Absolute favorites.
Solo:
Symphony:
Concerto:
Nevermind this is too hard.
-Daniel
Currently working on:
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-Liszt Harmonies du Soir
-Bach/Brahms Chaconne for Left Hand
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I think you can't proclaim one piece is better than the other. they are all different and captivate our interest for different reasons.
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Piano: pathetique sonata.
orchestra: Beethoven pastoral symphony
piano concerto: Beethoven 2nd piano concerto.
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I never used the word "better". I'm not that ignorant! I just wanted to know people's *favorite* pieces.
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If one has a lot of experience listening to music and performing, one knows that most people can't possibly have a (as in a single) favourite
-Solo Piano
-Orchestra
-Piano Concerto
Many, many well-loved and even best-loved pieces appeal to us for different reasons, and to say one is a favourite illogically eliminates others that can be liked equally well but differently.
Would you ask a loving parent who is his/her favourite child?
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Would you ask a loving parent who is his/her favourite child?
Rude to ask, but my siblings insist I was the favourite child. 
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Many, many well-loved and even best-loved pieces appeal to us for different reasons, and to say one is a favourite illogically eliminates others that can be liked equally well but differently.
Amen to that, though I realize the OP was just having a bit of fun. But when, say, I hear a Beethoven symphony, a Mozart piano concerto, a major organ work of Bach, well that's my current favourite! Would you ask a loving parent who is his/her favourite child? Never was a problem with me since I'm an only child. However... when I was an angst-ridden teen, if I had asked that question to my mother, she probably would have replied 'definitely not you'.
Jason
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