Favorite Piano Music
I played music by all these composers on the piano. Could play the piano well, but never figured out sight reading, so learning new works took months of memorization.
- Bach.
- Beethoven. Amazing piano sonatas: the Complete Piano Sonatas by Alfred Brendel, or Piano Sonatas Nos. 14, 8 & 23 by Rudolf Serkin.
- Claude Debussy.
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
- Scott Joplin.
- Rachmaninoff. Consider Simon Trpceski Plays Rachmaninoff.
By and large do not like Chopin: too flashy, not enough substance, even in the excellent Piano Sonata No. 2. Similar mixed feelings about Mozart.
