Favourite Piece In Your Repertoire

Just as the title says: your favourite piece that you have in your repertoire of whatever you play. Note that 'favourite' isn't equivalent to 'most difficult', as I'm sure some show-offs will interpret.

Mine is a close call between two slowies: Drunken John's No. 13 and Chopin's 4th prelude which, apparently, doesn't have a single performance which I like on YouTube.

I will pick one for both of my instruments:

Cello is probably the Dvorak concerto, with the Martinu Second Sonata close behind. It is far from the most difficult piece I know (a toss-up between the Finzi concerto and the Britten suites).

Piano would currently be Rachmaninov Op.32 no.10 Prelude, a deeply felt piece and highly engaging to play the page consisting entirely of ff triplet chords.

On the clarinet I don't think Debussy's Premiere Rhapsodie will ever stop being my favorite, both to play and listen to.

Cello = Easily the cello suites, easily.

Piano = Ravel's Concerto in G, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, John Adams' Hallelujah Junction, Philip Glass' Mad Rush, I think that covers it.

But your hands would be worn down to nubbins if you tried to play the Dvorak straight through, Phil.

For me it's a tossup between the Schumann concerto, the Bach suites, and Schubert Arpeggione sonata.

SImple Song. Leonard Bernstein. :)

My favorite happens to be this piece that I can play, which is ridiculously difficult; more difficult than what any of you can play, by far, ever.

bahaha.

My favorite happens to be this piece that I can play, which is ridiculously difficult; more difficult than what any of you can play, by far, ever.

Man, you need to step the funny up; you've become too complacent and you're losing it.

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2

Dvorak Cello Concerto

R-K Trombone Concerto

and Carter Concerto for Orchestra (yes: all instruments are played simultaneously by me)

top that Clark

Nah, I forgot about Rach 2 (I know, so sad :( ).

And by repertoire, I am assuming you mean the entire repertoire of the instrument you can play, whether or not I can currently play it is irrelevant :v

And by repertoire, I am assuming you mean the entire repertoire of the instrument you can play, whether or not I can currently play it is irrelevant :v

Just as the title says: your favourite piece that you have in your repertoire of whatever you play.

Technically speaking, Concerto in G is in my repertoire because I am working on it. Also, Mad Rush I can completely play :v

Who, pianist-wise, can't play Mad Rush? Good piece. Should be in everybody's rep!

Roslavets: Prelude (Largo)

It's definitely not the most difficult piece for piano, but keeping a steady rhythm at a slow tempo with an odd rhythmic melody can prove challenging. When I played this for my piano jury I got to play it on the large concert grand piano in the recital hall and it felt amazing when I hit the climax to hear all the pitches so lushly.

For organ, it's an easy one but loads of fun to play, Buxtehude's Gigue Fugue in C.

For lesser keyboards, Byrd's Carman's Whistle.

And for voice...the Gregorian Crux Fidelis for Good Friday, or the Reproaches.

For my viola, it's gotta be Vaughn Williams Viola suite, group 2. The Moto Perpetuo is SO HARD. But it's really fun and really cool! Nobody does it though, because it's hard...o_O not a single one on youtube.

I think I am most proud of learning piano part from Shostakovich cello sonata.

It's kind of hard to say what my favorite is, but Mendallson's Song Without Words in E- (I finished learning it a month ago) and Rialto Ripples (forget the composer, also learned this one a few months ago) are definately up there.

La Catedral by Agustin Barrios for Classical guitar is so ridiculously good, especially the third movement!

For viola I like schumann's adagio and allegro for viola and piano.

For tamburitza, I loved to learn quite difficult berde part of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.

Probably Rachmaninoff's prelude in c-sharp minor. If there's anything I could say I've "mastered," it would be that (or Mozart's fantasia in d minor), though I still have sometimes difficulty with one section of triplets.

3rd mov of the Barber Piano sonata. Depressingly beautiful... the other movements are too hard for me and the time I have free to practice. (halveway 1st and 2nd mov, the amazing Fugue only first page...)

I wish my repertoire were wider....I guess my favorite to play is Ravel's Toccata from Le Tombeau de Couperin. Not that I play it very well, I play it a bit undertempo.

Haydn Trumpet Concerto and Ewazen Sonatas! ...also Rondo for Lifey.