What is the piece of music that you would love to play - or maybe the piece which inspired you to play in the first place?

The piece I would love to play one day is The Prelude: Suite One - J.S Bach 6 Suites for Cello

Does it just have to be one piece???

Oh I suppose then I've always loved the Beethoven Violin concerto.

But all of the Bach violin repetoire is my ultimate dream.... I borrowed a book of transcriptions of Bach for violin duet yesterday and I'm in heaven.......

Theme from Schindler's List is what finally pushed me into violin playing (although I loved violin before that), my ultimate dream is to play it one day (thankfully it is not the hardest piece out there), but since discovering violin playing I started falling in love with almost everything played with a violin and I am also getting to love Fiddle music now, also dreaming of playing some Paganini's pieces one day

Since about the age of 10 it has always been Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto - as if....

Of course not playing for about 25 years in the middle hasn't helped.

Dvorak cello concerto.....and finally I'm getting within sight. I'm good enough to be able to play most of the notes, but unfortunately it's still woefully lacking compared to what I want it to be....

assuming you mean on string instruments...
Tchaicovsky violin concerto

only thing is.. I dont actually play violin.. (yet!)

Bach Violin Partita No 2 . Without a doubt. It's just off this planet.

Oooooooh Mephisto Waltz on piano... many of Brahms piano intermezzos... lots of piano pieces.

I think it would be a close tie between Hummels Fantasia for Viola and Orchestra (where a viola makes friends with a clarinet and gets over-excited about it!!) and Brahms' Sonata for viola and piano in F minor, esp the last 2 movements.

It'll take a few years, but I'll get there.......

Flight of the Bumblebee and Wieniawski Scherzo Tarantelle. Recently one of my teacher's students played the Tarantelle RIGHT before my turn at the recital. I didn't know whether to be extremely embarrassed to play, or extremely impressed.

I gave up playing the cello as I could never play my dream pieces quite well enough.

On piano, one of the last five Beethoven sonatas, or Ravels 'Gaspard de la Nuit'

On organ, Reubke's 'Sonata on the 94th Psalm'

Recuerdos de la Alahambra by Tarrega.

Possibly the Tchaikovsky violin concerto...

Never will though

On cello - getting through The Elephant would be a good start....

Devil's Dream, if I can ever work out exactly how it's physically possible

I'd really love to play the Theme from Schindler's List actually well in concert, hashed my way through it in our last school concert, but I really didn't do it justice.

EDIT: I meant Up Jumped the Devil not Devil's Dream, that's the dance. Which is nearly as confusing as the tune, atleast without walking it, but I can do it now!!

Fantasy Impromptu, I'm a couple of bars into it. My piano teacher says I should learn it.


What do I do next?


Edit: This is in strings. I didn't notice that. haha.

I couldn't agreed more.

For me it's the Chaconne from the Partita No.2 - on the guitar. I've bought the music and I've learned one varation (the easiest one). It's a start.

Me too. I can't even manage the first chord...yet...although I can do a few bars from further on if I am really selective. It's a start. Awesome pieces of music.

Actually last night I dreamt I owned a Strad...was sooooo disappointed when I woke up.

Awww

Vivaldi 'the 4 seasons' ALL the movements

I too would like to play Vivaldi's Four Seasons, ALL of them.

Kreisler's Praeludium & Allegro. I just got the score a few days ago. I can play only the 1st page right now. *grin* Started the violin in Feb last year.

Another dream piece is Paganini's La Campagnella. I'll probably have to wait like 7 years more for that.

Edit: *grin* I really wanna be able to play the Theme from Schindler's List too! I'm going to hunt for the score soon. I heard it the other time and sent a text message off to my friend asking if it was in F major and I was right! Wheee! I was soo happy!

Haven't heard my dream piece yet.

Flight of the Bumble Bee

I've just brought the flute music for it, but would love to play it on violin!!

For me it would be Handel's 'The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba' on the harp. My tutor plays it on the CD she released last year, and Catrin Finch played it a recent gig in Cardiff. Both blew me away; I dream of being able to play it myself!

Either that or 'Cosmia' by Joanna Newsom. I have tickets to see her in the Albert Hall in September, and I can barely wait!

Although I can't play violin now or plan to in the next few year, maybe I'll learn in college, but I want to learn how to play Scars of Time in the Chrono Cross OST. >.>

Brilliant choice Lizbun, couldn't put it better my self

I would also like to play toccata and fugue in D minor by bach

I would love to play Saint-Saens 's Introduction and rondo capriccioso someday

I've been listening to this in my car recently played by Leila Janowitz (sp?) and it's fantastic

As with lizbun, Alto and pialinist, Vivaldi's Four Seasons complete. Another was Meditation from Thais, and I performed it two weeks ago.

I would love to play the Butterly Lovers Concerto - well one could dream...

Video of it here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htQwnFVikmo

Attributed to Bach. There is no original manuscript in Bach's hand, so it may well have been written by a student of his, or one of Bach's close contempories. It is thought however, that the composition was orignally written for violin and then arranged for organ at a later date - the arpeggios converted into chordal progressions. It is published for violin as a solo work, similar to the solo sonatas and partitias for violin, but is 'attrib. J S Bach'

Inrtesting. Thanks for correcting me AmandaL

Hehe... do you mean Leila Josefowicz?? Omg I'm going to two of her concerts in July on two consecutive days: Mendelssohn concerto the first day, then Shostakovich concerto!!!

Wow ... favourite piece... this is a hard question to answer the list gets added to every day! Paganini caprice no. 17 (well all of them really ), shostakovich concerto, brahms concerto, tchaikovsky concerto, beethoven concerto, prokofiev violin sonatas, bach chaconne...

I heard Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons' on the t.v. and it sounded fantastic! (i've heard it before, but watching it just blew me away).

I'd love to play it on violin.

'Summertime' on the cello!!
The introduction to 'Stars' from Les Miserables was what first got my dream of learning a strings instrument reignited... Still sends goosebumps down my neck!

For me it would have to be Paganini's Moto perpetuo. I've just got the Deutsche Grammaphon recording of this, played by Gil Shaham with guitar accompaniment by Goran Sollscher. It's truly breathtaking!

I'd really like to be able to play the Biber violin sonatas, and for piano (wrong forum I know) I'd love to be good enough for Debussy's preludes. Neither are very likely in the near future I think!
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More to add... I'd love to get Bridge's Moto Perpetuo really good - I'm playing it for my HCYO audition on Firday, but I'd love to get it even better. Also Barber's violin concerto - the fast movement. I listened to it last night I was like

I'm completely in love with Vivaldi's 'four seasons' 2nd mvt from winter Well, actual the whole lot but...


I'M GOING TO PLAY THEM ONE DAY!!!!!!! ( and the mendelssohn violin concerto...)

Adding on...I've fallen in love with Sarasate's pieces so I would love to be able to play Zigeunerweisen, Zapateado and Carmen Fantasy. *grin*

Would also love to play the Mendelssohn and Bruch violin concertos. Will add more when I think of more.

Well, that's another one ticked off! Flight of the Bumblebee? *dreams*

(Totally off-topic, but does anyone know if Good Intentions is ok? She disappeared after she went on holiday to Turkey last year...)

Since this has resurfaced, I'll answer it.

Meditation from Thais is the thing I've already 'played' to a certain level which I'd like to play really well...because playing the notes and playing it well are worlds away.
My favourites in general are slow, expressive pieces like Schindler's List, Rachmaninov Vocalise, Chopin Noturne in C# minor.

On a short timecale I'd like to play Praeludium and Allegro well, because that's the main thing I'm bashing away at at the moment, and whilst I'm not sure Kreisler's quite my cup of tea overall it would just be such fun to be able to play a piece like that without it seeming so hard! not really possible I know!

On a very long/when pigs fly timescale, my favourite concerto I think is Beethoven, but what I most want to be able to play is solo Bach...can't decide between E major and D minor....possibly D minor just has it.

That was a rather long reply and much more than one piece! whoops.

Better get practising.

Do you know what grade they are? Want to know if I could try it in the near future.

I learnt the slow movement from Winter when I was about grade 4-5 and adored it. Haven't played any of the rest, but on this list, the 1st and 3rd movements of Spring are down as grade 8.

bruch violin concerto - getting there.

Despite being a Scriabin fanatic, with soft spots for Haydn and Beethoven, the piece I some day want to play properly is ... Prokofiev Sonata No. 8

Oooh, that's a point....


I want to get my head round Praeludium and Allegro, should take a bit of practising, but I might manage it...

I'm currently learning Barber's Adagio for Strings which I LOVE - It's my dream to play it up to performance standard. Could take a while though!!