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If you could only play one piano piece; ...right before you died
Topic Started: Jun 13 2006, 05:38 PM (517 Views)
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What would it be?

(Sorry to be so morbid)

For me? Moonlight Sonata, 1st movement.
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
I'd settle for anything played "right". But probably Jarrett's Koln Concert
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Beethoven Op.10#3, 2nd movement. - says it all.
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apple
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i'd play that 600 year long piece by John Cage
it behooves me to behold
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apple
Jun 13 2006, 06:49 PM
i'd play that 600 year long piece by John Cage

:lol: Or "The Neverending Song"
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Something with a lot of repeats.
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sue
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Beethoven for sure, but I'm not sure which piece.....do you mean 'play' as in play ourselves, or as in play a recording of?
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It's sometimes played during United Airlines commercials: Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue".
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Sue, I guess both. I meant play yourself, though...
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Jun 13 2006, 09:38 PM
For me? Moonlight Sonata, 1st movement.

With or without the blindfold? :)
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Jun 13 2006, 07:10 PM
Sue, I guess both. I meant play yourself, though...

Ok, if I was playing, Beethoven Sonata no. 17, op 31 (Tempest). The whole sonata, but most importantly the last movement.



*Great avatar 89th!* :thumb:
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Sue, you too! I made mine, then right before I uploaded it, I saw that you used the same soccer ball. I'm a n00b and original now. :whome:

Opt, it would be without the blindfold.

But I would have all the lights off, and be lying on my back. Well, maybe not the last part....it gets tricky during the middle crescendos...
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Hey, if you're going to get one wish, make the genie work a little. I might pick Rhapsody in Blue just because I've hacked away at it for many years, but it's awfully tempting to go for a Tschiakowsky, Grieg, or Rachmaninoff concerto, and why not with a world-class orchestra.

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Finnigan's Wake, or maybe The Night Pat Murphy Died.

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All of "Pathetique" Sonata. All three movements are good.

Or, maybe Liszt's transcription of Beethoven's Ninth....

Ok, one piece...so, back to the "Pathetique".

LOVE it.
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Jun 13 2006, 08:56 PM
Goldbergs - All of them

Ditto.
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Rachmaninoff 3rd Piano Concerto - I'd want the full orchestra there too...that'd be a "grand" death.
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Bach's Goldberg Variation Aria
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Jun 13 2006, 05:59 PM
Something with a lot of repeats.

:lol:
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Beethoven: Sonata Op.57 - "Appassionata" without a doubt.
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Phykell, that's one of my favorites! Can you actually play it? :eek:
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Jun 13 2006, 09:33 PM
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Jun 13 2006, 07:10 PM
Sue, I guess both. I meant play yourself, though...

Ok, if I was playing, Beethoven Sonata no. 17, op 31 (Tempest). The whole sonata, but most importantly the last movement.



*Great avatar 89th!* :thumb:

Bingo. I had a tough time deciding until I saw that and it reminded me of that goal which I shelved awhile back. Yes, the entire sonata -- including the deceptively difficult second movement -- but especially the third movement: it swings, it rocks and then it beguiles with it's sweet interlude before the climax.
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Jun 13 2006, 09:52 PM
Hey, if you're going to get one wish, make the genie work a little. I might pick Rhapsody in Blue just because I've hacked away at it for many years, but it's awfully tempting to go for a Tschiakowsky, Grieg, or Rachmaninoff concerto, and why not with a world-class orchestra.

Big Al

I'm so close on the rhapsody but i just can't wrap it up. But much better in my opinion is his Concerto in F. There's an excellent transcription of that for piano only (two hands). I've working on that but it's harder than the Rhapsody and that's hard enough. Also working on transcription of American in Paris. Yes I love Gershwin.
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Jun 13 2006, 08:56 PM
Goldbergs - All of them

Get real! :eek: :sombrero:

You go right to the zenith, don't you? Why not. :)
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