Piano music suggestions

[django1]

Piano, any style, good sounding recordings. Recommendations please. :thumbsup:

[Jethro]

Norah Jones

[Lanceb1b]

Piano, any style, good sounding recordings. Recommendations please. :thumbsup:

Chopsticks.:stirthepot:

[paulfess]

Bill Evans -Sunday At The Village Vanguard, Waltz For Debby 1961
McCoy Tyner
Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
Brad Mehldau -The Art of the Trio(5 vols)
Oscar Peterson -We Get Requests
Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin'

[django1]

Do you just do these lists off of the top of your head?

Bill Evans -Sunday At The Village Vanguard, Waltz For Debby 1961
McCoy Tyner
Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
Brad Mehldau -The Art of the Trio(5 vols)
Oscar Peterson -We Get Requests
Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin'

[HAL]

Rachmoninoff: Piano Concerto #1, Byron Janis on Mercury Living Presence SACD
Rachmoninoff: Piano Concerto #2, Byron Janis on Mercury Living Presence SACD
Rachmoninoff: Piano Concerto #3, Byron Janis on Mercury Living Presence SACD
Mussorskgy: Pictures at an Exhibition, Byron Janis on Mercury Living Presence SACD

[Jason]

I thought perhaps by the title you were looking for sheet music to play....

One of my fav's is Maple Leaf Rag, but is too difficult for my skill level...maybe when I was in middle school at the peak of my piano playing days.

[dweekie]

If you're looking for a bit of jazz, I love the live album from Stan Getz and Kenny Barron - People Time. It's a sax/piano duet which equally features both artists. Getz played like he knew it would be his final album, and Kenny Barron was equally impressive as a one man rhythm section and soloist.

http://www.amazon.com/People-Time-St.../dp/B0000046JY

[blackzarg]

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op.13 ("Pathetique")
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58
Works by Craig Armstrong ("Glasgow Love Theme")
Works by Vienna Teng (Piano + Vocal) ("Say Uncle", "Lullaby for a Stormy Night")

Most of those are songs that'll make you warm and fuzzy =)

[Daryl RL]

Definitely Bill Evans - Portrait in Jazz if you can find it.

[paulfess]

Do you just do these lists off of the top of your head?

Yes and no.
The artists are my favorites, but I have my entire LP and Cd collection ripped as FLAC and catalogued in OrangeCD by genre, instrument, artist, album and year, so in seconds I can list all my piano albums
Paul
:)

[gotchaforce]

django do you want pure piano?? im a pure piano guy... one of my favorite piano albums is "Christopher O riley - true love waits (christopher o riley plays radiohead)"

a very raw piano performance (and probably pretty well known) is "gonzales - solo piano"

some not so pure piano is yann tiersen who does a lot of soundtracks with slight ambience added to the piano, but its still very emotional piano pieces imo

edit: another one thats pretty good is aphex twin - drukgqs (spelling im not sure of..). Yeah its aphex twin but apparently he can do piano also and do it well..

[rsa]

For something cool, besides the music, look into the Zenph Re-Performance of Glenn Gould's 1955 performance of J.S Bach - The Goldberg Variations. There are some MP3 downloads on the linked page.

Check out their store for more piano "re-performances".

[Musicmaniac]

Rachmoninoff: Piano Concerto #1, Byron Janis on Mercury Living Presence SACD
Rachmoninoff: Piano Concerto #2, Byron Janis on Mercury Living Presence SACD
Rachmoninoff: Piano Concerto #3, Byron Janis on Mercury Living Presence SACD
Mussorskgy: Pictures at an Exhibition, Byron Janis on Mercury Living Presence SACD

Great choices!

[graphicguy]

Two that would be "must haves" to me in the jazz piano genre would be....

Professor Longhair Anthology......A good overall view of his work. New Orleans "boogie-woogie" style. Professor Longhair (Fess) was THE master of the genre. Plus, it's a fun listen.

Although way more prolific, and different, Oscar Peterson took traditional jazz piano to heights not known. Lots of his music available, but OSCAR IN PARIS is as good a starting point as any. Plus, it's well recorded and is a great Telarc disc.