Your Number One, All Time Favorite Romantic Piece?

[Sonatina]

Originally Posted by Roehre

Could be my words. Applies to me the full 100%

Ich auch!

[Stuart Watts]

Depends at any time on my mood but this rates highly for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlMHjo7Jwhk

[ReinerTorheit]

Aha, the Second DSCH Piano Concerto!

Interesting to see it called 'Romantic' music, although I don't disagree Seeing the composer's name spelt like that, I wonder if you happen to know a chap called Sydney?

[James C. Fretz]

1) Why on earth does one need a #1 to begin with?

2) If having one proves anything it's that there may be a bit too much time on one's hands (not to mention a certain O/C issue).

3) List making is highly over-rated.

[Joe Townley]

Originally Posted by musician32992

I have to say that the Rach 2 has always been my favorite Romantic piece and probably always will be. I've wondered for so long what this man could have possibly gone through to write such tragically beautiful music. What is your favorite and why?

I second that. The Rach Two

[ReinerTorheit]

I've wondered for so long what this man could have possibly gone through to write such tragically beautiful music.

I suppose fleeing your own country, having to give up a lot of composing and undertake unwilling conducting and piano-solo gigs, plus being on the run for illegally marrying your own cousin without permission...

... these things can add up

And even sadder case was Nikolai Medtner, Rachmaninov's friend and fellow composer. Medtner wouldn't compromise on his composition style to write audience-pleasing music... his career in the USA failed but he couldn't go back to Russia, so he settled in the UK, where he became a recluse, and ultimately a homeless man sleeping rough in a farmer's barn. One of the pupils to whom he was giving lessons to earn enough to buy food noticed that her teacher was an extraordinarily gifted man who'd slipped through the cracks in society, and helped him back to something like a normal creative and performing career.

[Aran]

The work that has held my attention the longest is Liszt's Sonata in B minor.

[Jem]

Today it's Mahler 7 (just saw Noseda/BBC Phil at the Proms)...tomorrow I don't know...

[D. Bucklige]

"All Time Favorite" seems to me to be a rather dangerously impermanent descriptor. Something would have to be pretty good......no extremely good.....to warrant elevation to that lofty height.

And this would include orchestral, chamber, keyboard or vocal (operatic) subdivisions? This is dangerous territory.....but I will play:

Piano Concerto: Rachmaninoff Third
Piano Solo: Schumann "Fantasy in C"
Symphony: Mahler Nine <---> Bruckner Eight
Chamber: Schubert String Quintet
Vocal: Schubert "Winterreise"
Opera: Wagner "Tristan"

[Quijote]

Originally Posted by D. Bucklige

"All Time Favorite" seems to me to be a rather dangerously impermanent descriptor. Something would have to be pretty good......no extremely good.....to warrant elevation to that lofty height.

And this would include orchestral, chamber, keyboard or vocal (operatic) subdivisions? This is dangerous territory.....but I will play:

Piano Concerto: Rachmaninoff Third
Piano Solo: Schumann "Fantasy in C"
Symphony: Mahler Nine <---> Bruckner Eight
Chamber: Schubert String Quintet
Vocal: Schubert "Winterreise"
Opera: Wagner "Tristan"

Ah, it's a good game to play, DB, no wucking forries! [sic]
To play the game, today, I will say:
Cage : 4'33". Eternal, works very well on any desert island, or indeed in any location whatsoever.