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For me, I listen mostly to classical, but that's because I took 11 years of piano and just started picking it back up with lessons. Some of my favorites are the following:
Rachmaninoff Op 23 No 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXU7I_Yyi2Y
Rachmaninoff Op No2 in C minor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8l37utZxMQ
Any of the Chopin Nocturnes
Beethoven's Molight Sonata: All 3 movements
Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd9JS07bq-s
Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody #2 in B minor, hard to find it but here's what is sounds like in another key: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9-2jM5RNSs
Bach's Inventions and Goldberg Variations (Aria's)

Mostly listen to Bach, Chopin, and Rachmoninoff.
 
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brianhoberg said:
For me, I listen mostly to classical, but that's because I took 11 years of piano and just started picking it back up with lessons. Some of my favorites are the following:
Rachmaninoff Op 23 No 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXU7I_Yyi2Y
Rachmaninoff Op No2 in C minor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8l37utZxMQ
Any of the Chopin Nocturnes
Beethoven's Molight Sonata: All 3 movements
Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd9JS07bq-s
Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody #2 in B minor, hard to find it but here's what is sounds like in another key: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9-2jM5RNSs
Bach's Inventions and Goldberg Variations (Aria's)

Mostly listen to Bach, Chopin, and Rachmoninoff.
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:applause: Always love the piano features. I haven't been playing hardly at all in the last few years.
 
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Roverlady said:
:applause: Always love the piano features. I stared playing around 4...haven't been playing hardly at all in the last few years.
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Well, took 11 years of lessons from 5-16. Stopped because I had a really shitty teacher at that time. Recently I picked it back up about 2 months ago and am loving it. My 2 year old is even wanting to play the keyboards with me. We've got an upright right now that was the one I learned on, was donated to a church, the church no longer wanted it, so I told my dad (minister of music there) that I wanted it, so now...it's mine. Perfect A440 tune. Working on "relearning" Moonlight Sonata right now. I forgot how technical the 2nd and 3rd movements were :eek:
 
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Vivaldi, absolute favorite is Concerto in Re min. op. 8 n. 9 RV 454, F. VII/1, or track seven on Il Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Inventione op VIII (CD 2/2) Track six is a close second.

The Allegro Maestoso from Antonin Dvorak's Symphony #7, and other favorites include Mozart of course, Bach, Schostakovich, and Philip Glass.
 
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brianhoberg said:
Well, took 11 years of lessons from 5-16. Stopped because I had a really shitty teacher at that time. Recently I picked it back up about 2 months ago and am loving it. My 2 year old is even wanting to play the keyboards with me. We've got an upright right now that was the one I learned on, was donated to a church, the church no longer wanted it, so I told my dad (minister of music there) that I wanted it, so now...it's mine. Perfect A440 tune. Working on "relearning" Moonlight Sonata right now. I forgot how technical the 2nd and 3rd movements were :eek:
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Very cool! I've been missing it a lot as I used to play something every day. My parents have 2 pianos and my inlaws have one, but I didn't have one in my own house until this last year. It was a free school upright piano from a friend...it's in the basement settling since the tuner told me to let it sit through one cycle of seasons before letting him work on it. It might not be worth it in the end but I didn't want to buy one b/c of the ones I will inherit! It's much easier to have one you can access on your own time. At least with typing my hands are still in good shape.

The oboe however...it's been so long since I played (about 7 years) that I doubt I could remember much starting out.
 
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Fun post roverlady! But before I go.... Go Broncos! LOL.

Unfortunately for multi-movement pieces, youtube really SUCKS! and many songs are not complete, so these are just teases.

I could post favorite pieces for ever. But if it comes down to my favorite things to listen to composer wise, then I like a lot of tame stuff, and many Baroque, but these kick ass.

Tchaikovsky 1812, 2 parts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTfN5I3dFPg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCem9BC1k9w

Dvorak #9 (the 2 movements that people most know).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYl4Xb4cDQ8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILEsEK-JkJI

Rossini,William Tell Overture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkymTHSbWe0

Anything brass... Maurice Andre, Wynton Marsalis are favorite performers due to my brass heritage. Love corps too.

Maurice
Kosma, (brief), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ChqsKjkmVk
Haydn (brief), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqU1pIVXpVg

Wynton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-jDld11jhw

Sousa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRmFS1nNmtQ
 
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I've been a Mozart fan for a long time but I've been in productions of Benjamin Britton operas, as well as other smaller pieces when I was at the music conservatory in colorado springs.
I like the 4 seasons a lot lately though. (Vivaldi) It used to be a favorite of my grandfather before he passed away.
 
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I played Violin for a decade

but it was HD Violin, I swear





Brahms, Bach, Tchaikovsky , usual violinist appreciation pcs, I also like yo yo ma's cello, perlmans violin, and some Indian classical stuff...enjoy tabla by zakhir and sitar by ravi
 
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Almost anything by Rossini. Warner Bros. didn't really help his image as one of the greats; but I still love Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fud too.
 
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Roverlady said:
Very cool! I've been missing it a lot as I used to play something every day. My parents have 2 pianos and my inlaws have one, but I didn't have one in my own house until this last year. It was a free school upright piano from a friend...it's in the basement settling since the tuner told me to let it sit through one cycle of seasons before letting him work on it. It might not be worth it in the end but I didn't want to buy one b/c of the ones I will inherit! It's much easier to have one you can access on your own time. At least with typing my hands are still in good shape.

The oboe however...it's been so long since I played (about 7 years) that I doubt I could remember much starting out.
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We scored a free upright off of CL. There is always a free piano to be had if you're willing to move it. I'm surprised your tuner did not tune it and then tell you to have re-tuned in a year. That's what ours did.

A friend of ours got an upright Steinway for FREE! :eek: Years ago someone on the upper westside in NYC was tired of their piano & told the super to get rid of it. He was rolling it out to throw away just as our friend was returning to the building. SCORE

Neither of us play. The wife is a classical singer. Mostly opera & operetta. She studied at the Eastman School of Music & the SF Conservatory. I've become a fan of Verdi & Puccini and the bigger symphonies like Mahler.
 
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while i enjoy pieces from the classical and romantic periods, overall i find them to be a little too regimented. i tend towards pieces that came during the post impressionistic era of art. Mussorgsky, Dukas, Ravel, Debussy, etc. i like Copeland as well. i played clarinet for 15 years, so i enjoy a good clarinet piece in jazz or orchestral composition. i also enjoy DCI from being in a marching band for 9 years.
 
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