I took part in ‘Classic 100 Pianos’ in ABC Classic radio in Australia, where I chose my top 10 favourite piano pieces from the candidate piano pieces the radio selected.
‘Classic 100 Pianos’ in ABC Classic:
Counting down Australia’s favourite music for the piano
How you voted in the Classic 100: Piano
My Votes were (partially amended):
- Piano Concerto in G major — Ravel, Maurice
- Pavane pour une infante défunte — Ravel, Maurice
- Goldberg Variations, BWV988 — Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 — Rachmaninov, Sergei
- Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26 — Prokofiev, Sergei ←
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 — Brahms, Johannes - Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102 — Shostakovich, Dmitri
- Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K488 — Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15 — Beethoven, Ludwig van
- 8 Concert Etudes, Op. 40 — Kapustin, Nikolai
- Piano Trio — Mendelssohn, Fanny (Among the candidate pieces by women composers)
I never get tired of listening to the Pavane and the 2nd movement of Piano Concerto in G by Ravel, which has exquisite sadness and beauty.↓↓↓
