2009-11-28, 02:28 AM
I REALLY like Chopin. Going to a piano school, and now being in the faculty of music, I have the honor of listening to a lot of music. My friend played that Chopin Scherzo last year. There's an elegance and showyness to Chopin's music that I love. For the same reason, I love Beethoven.
Currently, I'm learning this. It's a rather famous etude and you hear it in movies, films, dramas, etc. quite often.
I played I leap through the sky with stars by Alexina Louie last month, and it's an abstract 20th century piece, but the more you listen to it, the better it sounds. You kind of grow into it, and you can imagine the stars flying about and stuff.
Rachmaninoff is pretty good too. I'm learning this prelude later on in the school year (meaning early next year), though this is probably the most famous one.
For Beethoven, I like the Appasionata, the Waldstein, the Tempest and The Pathetique. I only played the last two, and want to learn the first two one day.
You meantioned Claire De Lune by Debussy and I've come to like it (at first I didnt like it for whatever reason) but do you know of the whole suite? Claire de Lune is the 3rd of a suite called the Suite Bergamasque (sp?) and the rest of it is equally amazing...in fact, I like the first and the 4th better than Claire De Lune (the 3rd). The deux arabesques are pretty cool too (I played the first one).
I've put a lot of stuff there, so I'll stop. I'll finish off with some of the stuff that I've written myself:
Cat's Song
Think, just think
Wings of the Angel
They're nothing special compared to Chopin and all the other guys, but it's stuff I've written for fun. Oh, and disregard the poor quality, lol.
Currently, I'm learning this. It's a rather famous etude and you hear it in movies, films, dramas, etc. quite often.
I played I leap through the sky with stars by Alexina Louie last month, and it's an abstract 20th century piece, but the more you listen to it, the better it sounds. You kind of grow into it, and you can imagine the stars flying about and stuff.
Rachmaninoff is pretty good too. I'm learning this prelude later on in the school year (meaning early next year), though this is probably the most famous one.
For Beethoven, I like the Appasionata, the Waldstein, the Tempest and The Pathetique. I only played the last two, and want to learn the first two one day.
You meantioned Claire De Lune by Debussy and I've come to like it (at first I didnt like it for whatever reason) but do you know of the whole suite? Claire de Lune is the 3rd of a suite called the Suite Bergamasque (sp?) and the rest of it is equally amazing...in fact, I like the first and the 4th better than Claire De Lune (the 3rd). The deux arabesques are pretty cool too (I played the first one).
I've put a lot of stuff there, so I'll stop. I'll finish off with some of the stuff that I've written myself:
Cat's Song
Think, just think
Wings of the Angel
They're nothing special compared to Chopin and all the other guys, but it's stuff I've written for fun. Oh, and disregard the poor quality, lol.