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I don't really have one piece I enjoy more than all the others, but I certainly enjoy playing...
Prelude and Fugue in cm Book 1
Prelude and Fugue in F#maj Book 2
Prokofiev Sonata # 3
Ligeti's Invention
I also like to fiddle around with Elliot Carter's Sonata, although it is a bit out of reach. (By the way, I love Schubert but cant really dont enjoy playing his music.)
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Bach 2-Part Invention No. 1.
Chopin Etude Op. 10 No. 1
Beethoven Appassionata
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pianojerome, what chopin etudes have you played except no.1? I love them all 
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Maple Leaf Rag 
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It's actually probably between the Moonlight and the Pathetique. But I'd add the first movement of the Rach 2 and the Mephisto Waltz to the list. Those four pieces I can play over and over and over and over and over until my fingers fall off and still not be tired of them. 
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although not my favorite work, the Weber Concertstuke was probably the most fun I've had performing a classical work. I was playing it for a master class with Ralph Votapek, I had just been totally awestruck by his recital the night before, so he was a god to me. I didnt have a second pianist for the orch part with me (my teacher told me not to, which I was laughed at on stage for  ). But anyway, as I was playing (not doing the greatest, but no disaster), i heard foot steps coming up behind me, and his ominous shadow fall on me, thinking uh oh, he's gonna stop me, how humiliating. but no, he sat down at the second piano and sight read the orch part with me. We ripped it up. That was LOADS of fun!!
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Slow down and do it right. ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pianoworld.com/forumpicts/MOYD12/MOYD_789012.gif)
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Originally posted by ecm: pianojerome, what chopin etudes have you played except no.1?
I love them all Op. 10 No. 12 (Revolutionary) I love that one, too - but I can't play it as well as I'd like (even after having worked on it for almost 2 years), so it's very frustrating! :p I'm working on 10/1 now.
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Probably Brahms Ballades Op.10 Especially no.3 Love it Freedom
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The first time I worked on Beethovens op.28 - that was awesome. A real eye opener.
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The piece I most enjoy playing/working on is, once again, the Totentanz.
The piece I have had the most fun performing is certainly Gottschalk's Union concert paraphrase. Not only is it an extremely fun piece to play, but audiences just go wild over it!
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Bartok Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion
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Chopin Ballade 4
Liszt Un Sospiro
Schumann Kreisleriana
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prokofiev 7 or tchaik cto
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Originally posted by pianojerome:
I'm working on 10/1 now. [/QB] I really like 10/1 in C-major?? But the best is C-minor!
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i would have to say that i have the most "fun" just playing improv blues...the freedom i think is what makes it so enjoyable to play...
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have to say it's tempest 3rd movement i'm currently playing...
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I like playing piano accompaniments from "Phantom of the Opera" a lot.
Also, Chopin Nocturne opus posthumous C#minor
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Just polishing up Mozart Sonata K331 and it is a joy to play day in and day out.
Starting on Pathetique and one day soon it will be the funnest. That first movement is killer!
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