Help!!!! Trying to find great piano peices!
 

Hey everyone! I am going crazy out of my mind trying to find some really great piano peices. For example..... On the soundtrack of The Corpse Bride, Victor's solo and the piano duet, are so unbelievebly beautiful..... well, I guess you would say they are more or less emotional or enchanting. I have been trying to find some really great songs the really portray that emotional feeling. I would LOVE any reccomondations!!! Thank you all so much for your help.

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Look for Philip Glass - Candyman. Beautiful piece.
Also Thomas Newman - Angela Undress

going to some oldies

moonlight sonata - beethoven
fur elise - beethoven
piano tro in E cantallbi - mozart(i think, just search with out and artist)
immortal beloved - beethoven
tarantella - franz list
cannon in D major - pachalbell( find for piano and make sure its a good one)

I love Rachmaninoff's Concerto for Piano & Orquestra No.3.

It's sooo powerful, just great.

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GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!!!!

Dammit!!! 1000th post and I wasted it here

Beethoven's "Fur Elise" is fairly easy to play.

If you're looking for something slightly harder, go with "Musical Snuffbox Op.32" It's composed by Anatol Lyadov and its a nice little piece.

Check out La Monte Young's "The Well-Tuned Piano."

I prefer Piano Concerto 2... that intro is... wow. :)

Also, look up anything Debussy... he was an impressianist with quite the nack for writing incredibly beautiful pieces.

For me it is:
Canon by Pachelbel

i recomend you listen it

I agree totally! Canon in D - Pachebel is the most beautiful peice I've ever heard. Personally I prefer the version for strings and harpsichord but, it is also great on piano.

My thoughts exactly and I have to agree the in Pachebel Canon is wonderful.

Along with Debussy (the piano preludes are great) try also Poulenc.

John Ireland London Pieces are favourites of mine to play as well. Enchanting and image provoking.

Spinal Tap - Lick My Lovepump http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...p/badteeth.gif

Here are a few nice pieces that aren't too hard ( I don't know your level)

"Barcarolle In G Minor" (June) from THe Seasons by Tchaikovsky

"Sicilienne" - Faure (gotta love the French composers)

Sicilienne was originally written for Flute, but if you can find a rendition for piano(took me a little while to track down), it's so beautiful and well worth the effort.

"Adagio For Strings" by Samuel Barber

This piece is so amazing. It breaks my heart everytime I hear it. It's so simple-looking on paper, and yet it's packed with so much emotion. Geez, I think i'm going to go listen to it xD

Hopefully some of these will toot your fancy. ^^

Chopin Etudes...if you like to listen to virtuosic stuff.
Chopin Scherzo No. 3 - Martha Argerich recording is THE BEST.

If you wanna hear some new music...i've written some stuff...I'd LOVe for people to comment on it and let me know what they think! I have a piece for Two pianos and strg quartet...also a piece for Piano and flute...etc

Allison's Homepage

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The End of Dreams is also a good one. It is not so famous now but i think it will be in the future.

I always like the piano versions of the Hungarian Rhapsodies. Then there's Mozart's "Sonata for Piano No.11 in A Major," and Tchaikovsky's "Piano Concerto No.1" but that one really needs an orchestra to back it up.

Rachmaninoff. This guy is seriously amazing. Look for the album "a window in time".

Amy Beach makes some beautiful piano songs. Also, if you're up for a challenge, try either a Grieg sonata, Mozart concerto (with a piano cadenza), or MacDowell, well, anything MacDowell really =D.

I know this may not be what you are looking for, but Game soundtracks own this one.

Almost all of the Final Fantasy songs have been arranged for piano, and there are a number of GREAT ones. Jeremy Soule is another excellent composer for piano. If you are looking for classical, then Chopin is the destination you will arrive at.

FF6 : Enchanted forest - piano collection would be a start on the FF series.
Oh and I forgot to mention Xenogears OST, that stuff is crazy beautiful. Just try to forget it is a game soundtrack...:p: