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What do you consider to be the most gorgeous examples of classical piano, regardless of difficulty? Some of mine would include: - Standchen - Schubert/Liszt
- Un Sospiro - Liszt
- Liebestraum - Liszt
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Brahms Intermezzo Op 118 no 2 Schubert Impromptu Op 90 no 3 Chopin Nocturne Op 48 no 1 Liszt Au lac de Wallenstadt Poulenc Improvisation 15 Debussy The Girl With the Flaxen Hair Barber Excursion no 3 Mozart sonata # 12 in F major, 2nd movement I'd better stop now 
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Schubert Liszt: Gretchen am Spinnrade
Chopin Etude op25no7 "The Cello"
Chopin Nocturne no. 20 in C# Minor
Scarlatti Sonata in D L09
Rachmaninov Moment's Musicaux nos. 1, 3, 5,
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All of the Chopin pieces.
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Bach/Petri: Sheep may safely graze
Chopin: Ballade #4
Chopin: Nocturne op. 62 no.2
Brahms: op.118 no.2
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Schubert's D.784 Sonata
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Sergei Bortkiewicz Etude in D flat Op.15 No.8.
Sergei Lyapunov Nocturne in D flat Op.8.
York Bowen Reverie d'Amour Op.20 No.2
Mykola Lysenko Impromptu after Chopin
Benjamin Dale Night Fancies
Sergei Bortkiewicz Prelude in F# major Op.33 No.7.
Arthur Lourié Minuet after Gluck.
Kreisler-Vaneyev Praeludium and Allegro in the Style of Pugnani.
and all the rest that everyone agrees with.
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Not much Rachmaninoff mentioned, tsk tsk.... anyone into the 2nd symphony? I know it's not piano, but still. We should broaden our horizons a bit! I have an obsession with that piece. Also his prelude 23/10 - why does no one play this? The 3rd mvt of the cello sonata. 1st movement of the 2nd concerto. The second movement of the 2nd sonata - so much in there that you can work with.
Beethoven 109 - last movement. 111!
Right now I really like the slow "movement" of Saint-Saens 1st violin sonata. Franck violin sonata, 1 and 3rd movement - although there are certainly parts to die for in the other two movements. Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade - the slow movements are SO beautiful!
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Not much Rachmaninoff mentioned, tsk tsk.... anyone into the 2nd symphony? I know it's not piano, but still. We should broaden our horizons a bit! I have an obsession with that piece. Also his prelude 23/10 - why does no one play this? The 3rd mvt of the cello sonata. 1st movement of the 2nd concerto. The second movement of the 2nd sonata - so much in there that you can work with.
Beethoven 109 - last movement. 111!
Right now I really like the slow "movement" of Saint-Saens 1st violin sonata. Franck violin sonata, 1 and 3rd movement - although there are certainly parts to die for in the other two movements. Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade - the slow movements are SO beautiful!
 (Except the topic was specifically about piano pieces) Ah, I've recently come to realize how beautiful Scheherazade is!
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Well, if we're counting anything with piano, I'll add the second movement of the first of the two Brahms clarinet sonatas.
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Not much Rachmaninoff mentioned, tsk tsk.... anyone into the 2nd symphony?
Count me in... and you can add the 1st symphony too! The development group in the 1st movement is such a catharsis. Rachmaninov 2 joins Bruckner 7, Mahler 3 and 5, Elgar 2, Sibelius 5, Schmidt 3, Parry 2, and Dvorak 8 on the Parnassus of great late romantic symphonies. But I guess we're only supposed to be talking about piano music... The Franck sonata takes me into areas that only his organ music and two great triptychs for piano do. Franck almost excites me too much. 
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Well, if we're counting anything with piano, I'll add the second movement of the first of the two Brahms clarinet sonatas. And I'll add the first movement of the second of the two Brahms clarinet sonatas.
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Third movement of Beethoven Waldstein Sonata. Emil Gilels' recording of it is what made me fall in love with classical music! Schubert's F Minor Fantasie and Chopin's fourth Ballade do a lot for me, too. And Liszt's sonata in b minor, especially the ending.
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Debussy - Reflets dans l'eau
As a kid this was the first piano piece I fell in love with, listening to my younger brother playing it.
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But I guess we're only supposed to be talking about piano music...
Well, it is Piano World. Otherwise, why not add pop music? Here's another: - Brahms Op. 10 no. 4 (Ballade)
- Beethoven 2nd movement of the Pathetique
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Here's another: - Brahms Op. 10 no. 4 (Ballade)
- Beethoven 2nd movement of the Pathetique
YES, and YES! I've been learning both of those and they're amaaaazing. I need to add, Busoni Piano Concerto.
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Well, it is Piano World. Otherwise, why not add pop music? I'm trying to think of a pop song as beautiful as some of the pieces mentioned here, and I can't. There are some pretty ones, but none I would call GORGEOUS that I can think of.
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Well, it is Piano World. Otherwise, why not add pop music? I'm trying to think of a pop song as beautiful as some of the pieces mentioned here, and I can't. There are some pretty ones, but none I would call GORGEOUS that I can think of. HANNAH MONTANA IS WEARING MY JEANS! ASHLEY TISDALE IS WEARING MY JEANS! 
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Well, it is Piano World. Otherwise, why not add pop music? I'm trying to think of a pop song as beautiful as some of the pieces mentioned here, and I can't. There are some pretty ones, but none I would call GORGEOUS that I can think of. HANNAH MONTANA IS WEARING MY JEANS! ASHLEY TISDALE IS WEARING MY JEANS! Um...what?
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