Tuesday, 1 April 2025

My favourite piano pieces

Classical and Ragtime: https://music.amazon.in/user-playlists/5002fd2ac953479a9cb72b432edced24i8n0?ref=dm_sh_94j8JHIJI5b9xNBYsv5g8ExOi


Obviously, the earlier pieces were written for the harpsichord or the fortepiano but now they are mostly played on the piano.

  • François Couperin 1668-1733 Le tic-toc-choc ou les maillotins
  • Christian Petzold 1677-1733  Minuet in G major, BWV Anh 114
  • JS Bach 1685-1750 The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Prelude No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846/1
  • Haydn 1732-1809 Piano Sonata No. 50 in D major, Hob. XVI:37: I: Allegro
  • Mozart 1756-1791 Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, Op. 6. No. 2, K. 331, "Alla Turca"
  • Mozart 1756-1791 Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K. 545, "Semplice"
  • Beethoven 1770-1827 Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor, Für Elise
  • Beethoven 1770-1827 Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op.2 No. 1
  • Beethoven 1770-1827 Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27. No. 2, "Moonlight"
  • Beethoven 1770-1827 Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
  • Friedrich Burgmuller 1806-1874 Opus 100, No. 2, Arabesque
  • Chopin 1810-1849 Nocturne, B. 49
  • Chopin 1810-1849 Fantasie-Impromptu, C-sharp minor, Op. 66
  • Chopin 1810-1849 Valse in D-flat major, Op. 64 No. 1, "du petit chien"
  • Chopin 1810-1849 Polonaise No. 6 in A-flat major, Op. 53, "Heroic"
  • Chopin 1810-1849 Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9, No. 2
  • Chopin 1810-1849 Waltz in A minor, B. 150
  • Chopin 1810-1849 Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
  • Robert Schumann 1810-1856 Traümerei
  • Theodore Oesten 1813-1870 Dolly's Dreaming and Awakening
  • Isaac Albéniz 1860-1909 Suite española No. 1, Op. 47, B.7: V. Asturias
  • Debussy 1862-1918 Claire de Lune
  • Debussy 1862-1918 Preludes, Book 1, L. 117:VIII: La fille aux cheveux de lin
  • Erik Satie 1866-1925 Gnossiennes I. Lent
  • Scott Joplin 1868-1917 Maple Leaf Rag
  • Scott Joplin 1868-1917 The Entertainer

Piano versions of other instruments: https://music.amazon.in/user-playlists/439177cd608140c4869c00c908e892e5i8n0?ref=dm_sh_zWtoHDczukz4Ohd1o1XYpBBRp

Handel (1685-1759), Suite No. 7, G minor, HWV 432, Passacaglia (Piano version by J. Halvorsen)


Piano sonatas recorded by the composer: https://music.amazon.in/user-playlists/d9ee3645ad9042328f107284c4f82d34i8n0?ref=dm_sh_p8KuZFeABWM5bB0FnCpXNlMGF

Piano sonatas by Yann Tiersen (b. 1970) used in the movie Amélie


An artist I have discovered recently: Yiruma (b. 1978): https://music.amazon.in/albums/B099KQQ64C?ref=dm_sh_UvBlHPDVwiQC1QswNJGCtDHeL

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