What are they?

Elgar: Cello Concerto - 1st mvmnt, 1st theme :3hearts:

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 - 1st mvmnt, 1st theme.

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I'm no good at these kind of topics.

I keep thinking I like this, but I like that, but I also like that....and that

Gaaah!!

I can't choose.

Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Variation XVIII

Talk about a sweeping melody ... *exhales*

the main theme in Beethoven string quartet op.18/4 last movement or op.132 last movement is hauntingly beautiful.

One that always does it for me: Beethoven's Archduke Trio, third movement. Hopefully I'll be able to find a violinist and cellist here at my school, because I want to perform this for next semester. That melody just speaks volumes to me. Take a look at my signature. That pretty much sums up how that movement makes me feel.

there is this one part in Geroge Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" that is pretty moving to me...its a slower part towards the end.

Pictures at an Exhibition - with the guys name I cant spell...Mugorsky?

Schubert Sonata D.850, 2nd Movement, 2nd theme.

Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 Movement 1 and 4

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2... all movements

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 4 Movement 2. Beautiful and dreamy.. same with his 1st Concerto as well.

Beethoven "Emperor" 2nd movement. Supreme

Those are all off the top of my head.

Took the words right out of my mouth! That is my absolute fav theme!!! Except I don't have the best recording of it. Just with the Royal Philharmonic, which kind of ruins the effect.

schubert-Trio Op.100, second movement

just heard Elgar's Chanson du Matin on the radio last night. It's just lovely.

I'm getting myself into Elgar now. This weekend, I'm going to order Jacqueline du Pré's "Favorite Concertos" collection, simply for the Elgar Concerto, and Barbirolli's recording of the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, Op. 39 and Enigma Variations. I know that it will all be wonderful, except for maybe the Enigma Variations - I'm afraid they may quite puzzle me. (But probably wonderful for Aveu!)

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What about the theme from Borodin's Polovtsian Dances? The one that was later stolen for "A Stranger in Paradise?" Or the third movement of the Brahms Double - absolutely addicting.

Rachmaninoff- piano concerto no. 3 first mov.

Most pieces by Chopin

I have particularely fallen in love with his Nouvelle Etudes. They are so dreamy it's hard to explain...

also, Beethoven 'ghost' trio slow movement (largo?), a fantastic atmospheric and sublime piece.

Mozart Piano Concerto No.21 in C major K.467 (2nd movement)

dum---- da dum----- da dum -- da dee da dee daaaaaaa dumm...

oooooh, I can think of several favorites:

Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings

Rach....- Vocalize (performed vocal, not the orchestra versions)

Canteloube collection of Chants d'Auvergne (many)

Hector villa-lobos - Bachianas brasileiras No 5, Aria (Kiri te Kanawa) - just haunting melody with cello and vocal

I hope this wasn't suppose to be just piano!

Roberta

Rachmaninoff Symphony #3, many but especially the broad, sweeping melody introduced first by the cellos about 2 minutes into the third movement, depending on performance. It proceeds to be a recurring theme for the remainder of the movement.

I urge anyone who is not familiar with the 3rd to give it a couple of listens. You too may fall in love with it.

Has anyone noticed a common thread througout these many posts---Sergei Rachmaninoff!

I agree the point around Chopin, but to me the scope of Rachmaninoff's themes transcends many measures while Chopin's themes tend to be less sweeping.

That piano melody is just gorgeous...ahhh

But my heart is on something else.

DAAHHHHH DAHHH DAHH DAH DAHDAHDAH

baa baaaaaaaaaa

etc...the 2nd movement of that is so gorgeous.

"Warsaw Concerto" by Richard Addinsell gets my vote..The main theme is exquisite. I'm trying to learn the whole piano solo now.

Rondo in A minor of Mozart, 1st movem't of Schubert sonata A major., 2nd movement of Bach E major violin concerto, Schubert G flat impromptu.

Lately, I've been enthralled by Rachmaninoff's Elegie Op.3 No.1. Exquisite.

Probally been one of my favorite pieces since the first time I have heard it, Chopin's Etude Nouvelle No. 3 in Ab major.

There's this one small transposition in La Campanella that really gets me. It's the part after the long chromatic scale followed by an extensive trill. Instead of going D#-D#-C#-B-B-A#-G#-F##-G#, it goes D#-D#-C#-B#-B#-A#-G#-G#-F#-E-C#-D#-E-D#-C#. Plus it says "expressivo" at the start of the change, so it's just oozing emotion.

Oh, and Liebenstraum No. 3 always seems to raise the small hairs on my neck with its melody!

Anything by Tchiakovsky, but esp. Romeo & Juliet . I also love listening to and playing The Nutcracker Suite piano arrangements.

Some of Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet Ballet is really moving as well.

dvorak cello concerto 1st movement
entire tchaikovsky 4th symphony
several themes in schubert's c major string quintet

yeah this is just of lately, in my time spent exploring music outside of strictly piano

Have you heard of Emil von Sauer's first piano concerto (E minor)? The theme of the trio of the scherzo is one that I really like.

Also, the Introduzione of the Waldstein Sonata, the theme of the second movement of Opus 111, and the main theme of the first movement of Saint-Saens' Third Piano Concerto.

But I definitely think what the composer does with the theme is also important. Many of the pieces I consider masterpieces from a compositional standpoint involve pretty banal themes.