Favorite Piano or Orchestra Song/Piece

15 years ago
Posts: 48
The Forrest Gump theme 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcOt6mfjxeA
Just Be Friends, piano ver.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inPVedSa1tI
I kind of have a thing for sad/hopeful songs.
GRRR

15 years ago
Posts: 435
Liszt -Liebestraum no.3
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15 years ago
Posts: 264
ummm...i love piano so i've got bunch of favorite piano pieces both modern and classical and also soundtracks, componists... 😉
and i also love violin and cello and then the whole orchestra...^^and i also love to listen to organ... 🙂
i simply cannot decide which one is my fav 'cus i love all of them... 🙂
well from classical i guess my favs are Beethoven(i can play his Fur Elise on piano^^), Chopin, Paganini, Vivaldi, Giuseppe Verdi, Schubert's Ave Maria and so on...i love their music, i could listen whole day and more... 🙂
modern day, i like to play: Linkin Park, Evanescence, Within Temptation and so on, System of a Down - Chop Suey, Alanis Morisette - Uninvited, Metallica - Unforgiven, Comptine d'un autre été l'après midi(i'm learning this one now), Enya's songs and also Ronan Hardiman - Warriors, Muse, Three Days Grace - Riot, Avril Lavigne - Forgotten... 🙂
then i also like Yiruma, Kajiura Yuki and Hans Zimmer's music... 🙂
Wolf's Rain soundtrack -Heaven's not Enough, from Code Geass: Hitomi -Stories, Continued Story... 🙂
whoaaa...there's so many more i love... 🙂 mostly i like sad pieces, cuz they're so i dont know touching and beautiful but i also like happy and fun pieces...^^
p.s. lol, now you got me so excited that i'm gonna go and play piano again...XD^^
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15 years ago
Posts: 370
Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers, The Nutcracker ; and 1812 Overture
Satie's Gymnopédie No. 1
Vivaldi's Summer (Mvt. 3 : Presto) / Storm, Four Seasons
Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2
Bach's Air on the G String ; and Cello Suite No. 1
Beethoven's Ode to Joy -- I can't help but whistle this one a lot! ; and Für Elise
To Zanarkand by Noboru Uematsu
Howl's Moving Castle Theme by Joe Hisaishi
Lightning's Theme by Masashi Hamauzu (although XIII isn't the best FF game ever)
Some other stuff too. :\
15 years ago
Posts: 249
anything by Eric Whitacre!!!!!! He is my absolute favorite composer. Cloud Burst is pretty, and I love Nox Arumque as well, though thats a choral arrangement as far as I know...

15 years ago
Posts: 49
Chopin -- Fantasie Impromptu Op. 66 in C# minor & nocturne in C minor
Beethoven -- Pathetique Sonata (all movements = looove)
Debussy -- Au Clair de Lune & Le fille au cheveux de lin
Eric Satie -- Gymnopedie no. 1
Schubert -- Die Fiorelle (the song & the quintet)
Francis Lai -- Love Story
Richard Clayderman -- Ballade Pour Adelaine
Paul De Senneville -- Marriage d'amour
Mozart -- Symphony No. 40 in G minor (romantic) & Marriage of Figaro but...it's an opera 🙁
Scott Joplin -- Maple Leaf Rag
so many more...that I can't think of..

15 years ago
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Piano: Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence by Ryuichi Sakamoto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mfyCI82lWM
Pretty much any Touhou piano arranges, seeing as though most of them that I find are quite good. For example...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ncq5XvTFPU&feature=related
Orchestra: The Last Emperor by Ryuichi Sakamoto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcGY0dStHuA&feature=related
To Zanarkand, everything by Joe Hisaishi, much much more...
15 years ago
Posts: 14
I love about everything from Nobuo Uematsu, I specially love Yoko Shimomura's Kingdom Hearts piano collection albums and most of Joe Hisaishi's works, but my favorite composer of all times is Yoko Kanno, may it be her classical pieces or not, but if you ever have the opportunity to listen to her album "The Creation" with songs such as "Cain and Abel" you will learn about how much of a mastermind she is. I guess that that is the only album in my whole iTunes that I've rated 5 stars, the WHOLE album, I am not a religious person, as you may realize being the album's main subject, but I just love the music by itself. Also, listen to her piano piece "Yin no Piano" and the album [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23-Ji_no_Ongaku[/url] it's not a classical style album, but another example of her greatness xP
As for more known composers/pieces I love songs such as "Claire de Lune", "Moonlight Sonata", some of Mozart's work's and Vivaldi's Four seasons.
I am a huge fan of soundtrack music, so I will just name some of the composers I recommend that may fit a more classical taste, Phillip Glass (listen to his Metamorphosis piano pieces), Danny Elfman (It is just great his musical knowledge range, from Spider Man's soundtrack, through The Nightmare Before Christmas and Oingo Boingo's "Stay") and also, I think that everyone loves his works but not everyone knows exactly who made the songs, John Williams, the master behind Star wars, Harry Potter, E.T, Indiana Jones and others. Well, whenever the topic is music and specially soundtrack music or classical/modern classical music I get a bit overexcited so, if you want to know about any other songs I like to listen to, in a more specific way (just in case you feel like you have a similar taste as mine or anything like that) feel free to ask me ;D Because whenever it is music talk I just love to help and to get to know about new ones I haven't heard of ;D

15 years ago
Posts: 3
I have way too many favorites. Probably because I play in a youth/school orchestra.
Gershwin:
Rhapsody in Blue - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U40xBSz6Dc
An American In Paris - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUfI6v6SwL4
Saint Saens:
Havanaise - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeApec5uZMU
The Carnival of Animals - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsD0FDLOKGA
Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b46Vo9BqFJ0
Beethoven:
Spring Sonata - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAcWGVC4Nqc
Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XL2ha18i5w
Symphony No. 7 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uOxOgm5jQ4
Symphony No. 9 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE-sS_1JQZI
Dvorák:
New World Symphony - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yctfXIqugXc
Rimsky Korsakov:
Russian Easter Overture - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty8CCHicF40
Capriccio Espagnole - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0jovaxJ4is
Borodin:
Polovtsian Dances - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tdgYmBxy1A
Sibelius:
Violin Concerto in D Major - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5zy3oUZXGk
Rachmaninov
Prelude in C sharp minor - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXGSfJn3nKQ
Concerto No. 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8l37utZxMQ
Somewhere in Time - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC9qpArem74
Edvard Grieg:
Piano Concerto in A minor - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxzpy1b1_BY
Shostakovich:
Symphony No. 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogJFXqYEYd8&feature=fvw
Walts no. 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmCnQDUSO4I
Brahms:
Symphony No. 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5vzkYFHW0g
Symphony No. 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1trE3ms3AGo
Clarinet Quintet - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCwj_nAB3xI
Violin Concerto in D Major - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB0UeWKRpLg
Violin Sonata No. 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igwBXXtI028
Tchaikovsky:
Piano Concerto No. 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CMo_mLNz38
Violin Concerto in D Major - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77DgEqwRnrA
The Nutcracker - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg1dMpu4v7M
1812 Overture - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgunF7KbgmY
Swan Lake - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S76CGGPqI3s
Bach:
Cello Suite No. 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZn_VBgkPNY&feature=related
Toccata and Fugue in D minor - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1z12_Ps-gk
Chaconne for Solo Violin - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bVRTtcWmXI
Ysaye:
Sonata No. 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziEeuQEA5aM&feature=related
Ballade - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v2jUf_csZE
Sonata No. 6 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poZitynnCpY&feature=related
Piazolla
Libertango - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUAPf_ccobc
Spring - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkGeNd32qks
Winter - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbL_OCpAnc0&feature=related
Vivaldi
Winter - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGdFHJXciAQ
Summer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHi6NWXr0jI
Wieniawski
Variations on an Original Theme - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dADqk_wefTw
Polonaise No. 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21dsRBeIy8A
Concerto No. 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmzM6COfn8E
Concerto No. 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pzZCObuBX0
Sarasate
Zapateado - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9JcmC-mtj4
Habanera - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cvTZaawdJ0&feature=related
Carmen Fantasy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wicnxOs2H98
Kreisler
Preludium and Allegro - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeETRRsj1Ek
Tambourine Chinois - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TyN3AyZ56U
Haydn
String Quartet in D Minor "Fifths" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCXg8xo31h0
Halvorsen
Passacaglia - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAKA3rLENGU
Juan Tizol
Caravan - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Vw5r7-vgs

14 years ago
Posts: 32
I'd have to say Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (Sonata No. 14) and Chopin's Nocturne Op. 27, no. 2 ..

14 years ago
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Tchaikovski's works 🙂

14 years ago
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14 years ago
Posts: 498
Fantasie Impromptu from Chopin and La Campanella from Listz....both so great that I can't chose between them ^^
Im a huge fan of classical/orchestra/piano music so this are just a few of the songs i usually repeat a lot.
Immediate Music-Dark Side of power
Beethoven-moonlight sonata
Carmina Burana-Carl Orff [with chorus]
Anything by Fariborz Lachini
Ave verum Corpus-Mozart
Miserere Mei, Deus -Gregorio Allegri
and of course, Ave Maria-Schubert

14 years ago
Posts: 546
Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre
I freaking want to dance to it.
Other favorite is the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto, by Chen Gang and He Zhanhao.