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🎶 Pieces to Play

JJ van Zon, 2022

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A list of pieces I play / have played / would like to play. Links to performances are usually not me. Some data are just guesses or opinion.

Repertoire

Lrn Pfm Rec Name Mood Difficulty Nice Pages Dur. Me YouTube Spotify
✔ ✔ ✔ Satie Gnossienne Ⅰ Atmospheric Easier 🆗 2 pg 4:30 🔉 JJ van Zon 📺 The Flaming Piano 🔊 Hélène Grimaud
✔ ✔ ✔ Chopin Mazurka Op. 24, No. 2 Easy listening Medium 👍 4 pg 3:00 🔉 JJ van Zon 📺 Martha Argerich 🔊 Idil Biret
✔ ✔   Debussy Arabesque Ⅰ Atmospheric Medium 👍 5 pg 6:00   📺 Rousseau 🔊 Axel Gillison
… ✔   Mozart Sonata Facile K. 545 Part 1 Easy listening Hard 👍 5 pg 5:20   📺 Rousseau 🔊 Lang Lang
…     Chopin Ballade Ⅱ in F major, Op. 38 Heavy Hard 👍 9 pg 7:30   📺 Aimi Kobayashi 🔊 Yundi
…     Satie Gymnopédie Ⅰ Atmospheric Easier 🆗   4:00   📺 Rousseau 🔊 Khatia Buniatishvili

Might Study Next

Name Mood Difficulty Nice Pages Dur. YouTube Spotify
Satie Gnossienne 3 Atmospheric Easier 🆗   3:30 📺 The Flaming Piano 🔊 Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Bartok Romanian Folk Dances No. 3 “Der Stampfer” Atmospheric Easier 👍 1½ pg 1:15 📺 Ipek Bozkurt 🔊 Idil Biret
Bartok Romanian Folk Dances No. 4 “Tanz aus Butschum” Atmospheric Easier   1 pg 0:40 📺 Konrad Roman Salwa 🔊 Idil Biret
Bach Prelude in C major, BWV 846 Atmospheric Easier     2:20 📺 SeeMusic 🔊 Hélène Grimaud
Chopin Prelude Op. 28, No. 4 Melancholic Easier     2:45 📺 Khatia Buniatishvili 🔊 Garrick Ohlsson, Khatia Buniatishvili
Beethoven Sonata Op.27 No.2 Mov. 1 (“Moonlight Sonata”) Melancholic Easier 🧡   6:00 📺 Rousseau 🔊 Hélène Grimaud

Might Like to Play

Might Like to Play, Easier

Name Mood Difficulty Nice Pages Dur. YouTube Spotify
Brahms Waltz Op. 39, No. 15 in A flat major Easy listening Easier     1:30 📺 Iain Hemstock 🔊 Idil Biret
Grieg Lyric Pieces Op. 38, No. 5 “Spring Dance” Easy listening Easier 👍   1:30 📺 Mike Magatagan 🔊 Shisei Hanai
Grieg Lyric Pieces Op. 38, No. 1 “Berceuse” Easy listening Easier 🙂   2:45 📺 Sylvia Gray 🔊 Shisei Hanai
Beethoven Sonata Pathétique Opus. 13 Mov 2 Atmospheric Easier     5:00 📺 Julien Piano 🔊 Valentina Lisitsa
Grieg Lyric Pieces Op. 38, No. 2 “Popular Melody” Atmospheric Easier 🆗   1:45 📺 HDA Pianomusic 🔊 Shisei Hanai
Grieg Lyric Pieces Op. 38, No. 4 “Norwegian Dance” Atmospheric Easier 🆗   0:45 📺 Sylvia Gray 🔊 Shisei Hanai
Chopin Mazurka Op. 17, No. 4 Melancholic Easier 🧡 4 pg 4:30 📺 Eric Lu 🔊 Idil Biret
Chopin Mazurka Op. 63, No. 2 Melancholic Easier 👍 2 pg 2:20 📺 Vadim Chaimovich 🔊 Idil Biret
Chopin Mazurka Op. 67, No. 2 Melancholic Easier 🆗 2 pg 2:15 📺 Alexej Gorlatch 🔊 Idil Biret
Grieg Lyric Pieces Op. 47, No. 3 “Melodie” Melancholic Easier 🧡   3:00 📺 Nathanaël Gouin 🔊 Shisei Hanai
Grieg Lyric Pieces Op. 57, No. 6 “Home Sickness” Melancholic Easier 👍   3:45 📺 Shirley Kirsten 🔊 Shisei Hanai

Might Like to Play, Medium Difficulty

Name Mood Difficulty Nice Pages Dur. YouTube Spotify
Chopin Prelude Op. 28, No. 17 Easy listening Medium 👍   3:20 📺 Eric Lu 🔊 Yundi, Aimi Kobayashi
Chopin Waltz in A flat major Op. 34, No. 1 Easy listening Medium 👍   5:00 📺 Ingolf Wunder 🔊 Alice Sara Ott
Grieg Lyric Pieces Op. 71, No. 4 “Peace of the Woods” Easy listening Medium 🆗   4:15 📺 Tara Ng 🔊 Shisei Hanai
Chopin Etude Op. 10, No. 3 in E (“Tristesse”) Atmospheric Medium     4:30 📺 Mei-Ting Sun 🔊 Idil Biret
Chopin Nocturne Op. 9, No. 3 Atmospheric Medium   10 pg 7:00 📺 Arthur Rubinstein 🔊 Valentina Lisitsa
Chopin Nocturne Op. 32, No. 2 Atmospheric Medium   6 pg 7:00 📺 Arthur Rubinstein 🔊 Garrick Ohlsson
Chopin Nocturne Op. 48, No. 2 Atmospheric Medium   7 pg 7:20 📺 Dinara Klinton 🔊 Maria João Pires
Chopin Nocturne Op. 55, No. 2 Atmospheric Medium 🧡 6 pg 6:00 📺 Qi Kong 🔊 Lang Lang, Idil Biret
Chopin Op. 22, Mov. 1 “Andante Spianato” Atmospheric Medium     5:00 📺 Jan Lisiecki 🔊 Lang Lang
Debussy Rêverie Atmospheric Medium     5:00 📺 Paul Barton 🔊 Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Debussy Suite Bergamasque, Prélude Atmospheric Medium 👍 6 pg 7:00 📺 Katsunori Maeda, Seong-Jin Cho 🔊 Axel Gillison (Transposed)
Schubert / Liszt Ave Maria Atmospheric Medium 💔   5:00 📺 Valentina Lisitsa 🔊 Idil Biret, Lang Lang
Liszt Consolations No.3 (S. 172) Atmospheric Medium 👍   5:00 📺 Valentina Lisitsa, Rousseau 🔊 Daniel Barenboim
Schubert Impromptu No. 3 in Gb major Atmospheric Medium     6:30 📺 Traum Piano 🔊 Arthur Jussen
Chopin Mazurka Op. 59, No. 1 Atmospheric Medium     4:30 📺 Eric Lu 🔊 Idil Biret
Bach Air on the G String Atmospheric Medium     6:00 📺 Valentina Lisitsa, Rousseau 🔊 Khatia Buniatishvili
Grieg Lyric Pieces Op. 54, No. 2 “Norwegian March” Atmospheric Medium 🧡   3:45 📺 Sylvia Gray 🔊 Shisei Hanai
Grieg Lyric Pieces Op. 38, No. 7 “Waltz” Atmospheric Medium 👍   1:15 📺 Sylvia Gray 🔊 Shisei Hanai
Grieg Lyric Pieces Op. 43, No. 6 “To the Spring” Atmospheric Medium 🙂   3:00 📺 Denis Kozhukhin 🔊 Shisei Hanai
Chopin Nocturne Op. 27, No. 2 Melancholic Medium 👍   6:30 📺 Yulianna Avdeeva 🔊 Idil Biret
Chopin Prelude Op. 45 Melancholic Medium     5:45 📺 Will Johnson 🔊 Joaquín Achúcarro
Chopin Mazurka Op. 41, No. 1 Melancholic Medium   2 pg 2:30 📺 Arthur Greene 🔊 Todd Crow
Chopin Mazurka Op. 17, No. 2 Melancholic Medium   2 pg 2:30 📺 Aimi Kobayashi 🔊 Idil Biret
Chopin Mazurka Op. 68, No. 4 Melancholic Medium 🆗 2 pg 2:30 📺 Arthur Rubinstein 🔊 Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Saint-Saëns “The Swan” (Transcription) Melancholic Medium 💔   3:00 📺 Paul Barton 🔊 Music Lab Collective
Grieg Lyric Pieces Op. 38, No. 6 “Elegy” Melancholic Medium 👍   2:30 📺 Sylvia Gray 🔊 Shisei Hanai
Chopin Polonaise No. 4 in C minor, Op. 40, No. 2 Heavy Medium 💔   8:30 📺 Ivo Pogorelich 🔊 Idil Biret

Might Like to Play, Hard

Name Mood Difficulty Nice Pages Dur. YouTube Spotify
Grieg Lyric Pieces Op. 65, No. 6 “Wedding Day” Easy listening Hard 🧡   6:00 📺 Danae Dörken 🔊 Shisei Hanai
Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit “Ondine” Atmospheric Hard 👍 12 pg 7:00 📺 MrBromaba 🔊 Idil Biret
Chopin Etude Op. 25, No. 1 (“Harp Study”) Atmospheric Hard     2:00 📺 Totothoven 🔊 Valentina Lisitsa
Liszt Liebestraum No. 3 Atmospheric Hard 🧡   4:30 📺 Piano Sandbox 🔊 Lang Lang, 🔊 Daniel Barenboim
Liszt Étude de Concert No. 3 in D flat “Un sospiro” S.144 Atmospheric Hard     5:40 📺 Paul Barton 🔊 Valentina Lisitsa
Tchaikovsky / Noack Swan Lake (Transcription) Atmospheric Hard     3:45 📺 Florian Noack 🔊 Florian Noack
Chopin Polonaise Op. 26, No. 2 in E flat minor Heavy Hard 💔   8:00 📺 YouTube, Anastasia Huppmann 🔊 Idil Biret
Chopin Etude Op. 25, No. 12 (“Ocean”) Heavy Hard     2:30 📺 Rousseau 🔊 Shisei Hanai
Chopin Scherzo Op. 31, No. 2 Heavy Hard     10:00 📺 Seong-Jin Cho 🔊 Aimi Kobayashi
Grieg Lyric Pieces Op. 54, No. 3 “March of the Dwarfs” Heavy Hard 👍   2:45 📺 HDA Pianomusic 🔊 Shisei Hanai
Grieg Lyric Pieces Op. 71, No. 3 “Puck” Heavy Hard 👍   2:00 📺 Kanon Takao, Varyk 🔊 Shisei Hanai

Might Like to Play, Very Hard

Name Mood Difficulty Nice Pages Dur. YouTube Spotify
Chopin Etude Op. 25, No. 11 (“Winter Wind”) Heavy Hard     4:00 📺 Rousseau 🔊 Shisei Hanai
Chopin Ballade I in G minor Op. 23 Heavy Hard     9:45 📺 Rousseau 🔊 Garrick Ohlsson
Chopin Ballade Ⅲ in A♭ major, Op. 47 Heavy Hard     7:00 📺 SubitoPiano 🔊 Leif Ove Andsnes
Chopin Ballade Ⅳ in F minor, Op. 52 Heavy Hard     11:30 📺 Rousseau 🔊 Yundi

Have Played

Name Mood Difficulty Nice Pages Dur. YouTube Spotify
Debussy Clair de Lune Atmospheric Medium     6:45 📺 Lang Lang 🔊 Lang Lang
Brahms Rhapsody Op. 79, No. 2 Heavy Hard 👍   6.00 📺 Brahms Rhapsody 🔊 Martha Argerich
Brahms Intermezzo 118.2 Atmospheric Medium     6:20 📺 Arthur Jussen 🔊 Khatia Buniatishvili
Bartok Romanian Folk Dances No. 1 “Der Tanz mit dem Stabe” Atmospheric Medium 👍 2 pg 1:10 📺 Das Ohrwürmchen 🔊 Idil Biret
Bartok Romanian Folk Dances No. 2 “Brâul” Atmospheric Medium 🆗 ½ pg 0:30 📺 Mario Fernandez 🔊 Idil Biret
Bartok Romanian Folk Dances No. 5 “Rumänische Polka” Atmospheric Harder   2 pg 0:30 📺 Elias 🔊 Idil Biret
Bartok Romanian Folk Dances No. 6 “Schnell Tanz” Atmospheric Harder   2 pg 1:00 📺 Elias 🔊 Idil Biret
Satie Gymnopédie 2 Atmospheric Easier     2:50 📺 Lord Vinheteiro 🔊 Patrick Cohen
Chopin Mazurka Op. 6, No. 1 Melancholic Medium 🆗 3 pg 3:30 📺 Arsenii Mun 🔊 Idil Biret
Chopin Mazurka Op. 6, No. 2 Atmospheric Medium   2 pg 3:00 📺 Joel Ross 🔊 Idil Biret
Chopin Mazurka Op. 6, No. 3 Easy listening Medium   3 pg 2:00 📺 Piantho 🔊 Idil Biret
Chopin Waltz Op. 34, No. 2 “Grande Valse Brillante” Melancholic Easier 🆗   5:00 📺 Valentina Lisitsa 🔊 Idil Biret
Chopin Waltz Op. 64, No. 1 in D-flat major “Minute Waltz” Easy listening Medium     2:15 📺 Rousseau 🔊 Lang Lang
Chopin Waltz Op. 69, No. 2 Atmospheric Easier 🆗 3 pg 4:00 📺 Paul Barton 🔊 Idil Biret
Chopin Waltz Op. 70, No. 3 Easy listening Medium 🆗   3:00 📺 Paul Barton 🔊 Idil Biret
Chopin Nocturne Op. 9, No. 1 Melancholic Medium   6 pg 6:30 📺 Vadim Chaimovich 🔊 Claire Huangci
Chopin Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2 Atmospheric Medium   4 pg 4:30 📺 Andrea Romano 🔊 Seong-Jin Cho
Chopin Nocturne Op. 15, No. 1 Atmospheric Hard   6 pg 4:00 📺 Valentina Lisitsa 🔊 Daniel Barenboim
Chopin Nocturne Op. 15, No. 2 Atmospheric Medium   4 pg 4:00 📺 Garrick Ohlsson 🔊 Idil Biret
Chopin Nocturne Op. 15, No. 3 Melancholic Hard   4 pg 5:00 📺 Arthur Rubinstein 🔊 Maurizio Pollini
Chopin Nocturne Op. 27, No. 1 Melancholic Hard 🧡 6 pg 5:30 📺 Garrick Ohlsson 🔊 Valentina Lisitsa
Chopin Nocturne Op. 37, No. 1 Atmospheric Medium 🆗 4 pg 7:00 📺 Yoonie Han 🔊 Valentina Lisitsa
Chopin Nocturne Op. post, BI 49 Melancholic Medium 👍 4 pg 4:30 📺 Rousseau 🔊 Axel Gillison
Chopin Nocturne Op. post. 72, No. 1 Melancholic Medium 💔 4 pg 4:00 📺 Takagi Ryoma 🔊 Idil Biret
Chopin Fantaisie Impromptu Atmospheric Hard     5:00 📺 Pavel Kolesnikov 🔊 Idil Biret
Chopin Polonaise Op. 40, No. 1 “Military” Heavy Hard     5:30 📺 Maurizio Pollini 🔊 Maurizio Pollini
Chopin Prelude Op. 28, No. 6 in B minor Melancholic Medium 💔   2:30 📺 Rousseau 🔊 Gloria Campaner
Chopin Sonata Ⅱ Op. 35 “Funeral March” Part 3 Melancholic Medium     9:10 📺 Rousseau 🔊 Idil Biret
Beethoven Sonata Op.27 No.2 “Moonlight Sonata” Mov. 1 Melancholic Easier     6:00 📺 Anastasia Huppmann 🔊 Yundi
Beethoven Sonata Op.27 No.2 “Moonlight Sonata” Mov. 3 Heavy Hard     7:00 📺 Valentina Lisitsa 🔊 Shisei Hanai
Mozart Sonata in C, K. 279 / 189d, Part 1: Allegro Easy listening Medium   6 pg 7:00 📺 Poudredepapier 🔊 Glenn Gould
Mozart Sonata in B, K. 281 / 189f, Part 3 Easy listening Medium   6 pg 4:30 📺 Mitsuko Uchida  
Mozart Sonata in c, K. 457, Part 3 Melancholic Medium 🆗 8 pg 6:30 📺 Grigory Sokolov  
Mozart Sonata in C major, K. 545 “Sonata Facile” Part 2 Atmospheric Medium   4 pg 6:30 📺 Mitsuko Uchida 🔊 Axel Gillison
Mozart Sonata in C major, K. 545 “Sonata Facile” Part 3 Easy listening Medium   3 pg 2:00 📺 Mitsuko Uchida  
Mozart Rondo Alla Turca Easy listening Medium     4:00 📺 Marnie Laird  
Mozart Fantasia in D minor Melancholic Medium     6:30 📺 Paul Barton 🔊 Hélène Grimaud
Clementi Sonatina in C major, Op. 36, No. 1 Easy listening Easier 👍   3:40 📺 Hazel Nguyen  
Vivaldi Four Seasons, Winter, Part 1 (Transcription) Atmospheric Hard     3:45 📺 Rousseau, Maria Sourjko  
Vivaldi Four Seasons, Winter, Part 2 (Transcription) Atmospheric Hard     2:00 📺 Yunuscan Kaya  
Vivaldi Four Seasons, Winter, Part 3 (Transcription) Atmospheric Hard     3:00 📺 Akiko Inagawa  
Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre (Transcription) Atmospheric Hard          
Walter Carroll “Forest Fantasies” No. 1 “Queen Mab” Atmospheric Easier   1 pg 1:00 📺 Christopher Baxter  
Walter Carroll “Forest Fantasies” No. 2 “To a Sleeping Fairy” Atmospheric Easier   1 pg 1:45 📺 Christopher Baxter  
Walter Carroll “Forest Fantasies” No. 3 “Under the Cherry Tree” Atmospheric Easier   1 pg 1:00 📺 Christopher Baxter  
Walter Carroll “Forest Fantasies” No. 4 “The Elfin Harp” Atmospheric Easier   1 pg 1:30 📺 Christopher Baxter  
Walter Carroll “Forest Fantasies” No. 5 “Sprites of the Twilight” Atmospheric Easier   1 pg 1:00 📺 Christopher Baxter  
Walter Carroll “Forest Fantasies” No. 6 “Garland Dance” Atmospheric Easier 👍 1 pg 1:15 📺 Christopher Baxter  
Walter Carroll “Forest Fantasies” No. 7 “Nightfall” Atmospheric Easier   1 pg 2:30 📺 Christopher Baxter  
Walter Carroll “Forest Fantasies” No. 8 “Dwarfs of the Mist” Atmospheric Easier   2 pg 1:10 📺 Christopher Baxter  
Walter Carroll “Forest Fantasies” No. 9 “Farewell to the Fairies” Atmospheric Easier   2 pg 1:10 📺 Christopher Baxter  
Bach Invention No. 8 Easy listening Hard   2 pg 1:15 📺 Marcin Dąbrowski  
Bach Invention No. 13 Atmospheric Hard   2 pg 1:00 📺 Marcin Dąbrowski  
Beethoven Für Elise Easy listening Easier     3:00 📺 Rousseau  
Burgmüller Etude “La Candeur” Op. 100, No. 1 Easy listening Easier   1 pg 1:30 📺 Cory Hall  
Burgmüller Etude “Arabesque” Op. 100, No. 2 Atmospheric Easier   1 pg 1:00 📺 Cory Hall  
Burgmüller Etude “The Little Party” Op. 100, No. 4 Easy listening Easier   1 pg 1:30 📺 Cory Hall  
Burgmüller Etude “Innocence” Op. 100, No. 5 Atmospheric Easier   1 pg 1:00 📺 Cory Hall  
Burgmüller Etude “Progress” Op. 100, No. 6 Easy listening Easier   1 pg 1:00 📺 Cory Hall  
Burgmüller Etude “The Wagtail” Op. 100, No. 11 Easy listening Easier   1 pg 1:00 📺 Cory Hall  
Burgmüller Etude “Farewell” Op. 100, No. 12 Melancholic Easier   2 pg 1:00 📺 Cory Hall  
Burgmüller Etude “Ballade” Op. 100, No. 15 Heavy Easier   2 pg 1:30 📺 Cory Hall  
~ Burgmüller Etude “Discomfort” Op. 100, No. 18 Melancholic Easier   1 pg 1:00 📺 Cory Hall  
~ Burgmüller Etude “The Swallow” Op. 100, No. 24 Easy listening Easier   2 pg 1:00 📺 Cory Hall  
Duvernoy Op. 176, No. 1 Easy listening Easier   1 pg 0:50 📺 Celia Tsai  
Duvernoy Op. 176, No. 2 Atmospheric Easier   1 pg 0:50 📺 Celia Tsai  
Duvernoy Op. 176, No. 3 Easy listening Easier   1 pg 0:50 📺 Celia Tsai  
Duvernoy Op. 176, No. 4 Atmospheric Easier   1+ pg 0:50 📺 Celia Tsai  
Duvernoy Op. 176, No. 5 Easy listening Easier   1- pg 0:30 📺 Celia Tsai  
Duvernoy Op. 176, No. 6 Atmospheric Easier   1- pg 0:40 📺 Celia Tsai  
Duvernoy Op. 176, No. 7 Easy listening Easier   1½ pg 1:15 📺 Celia Tsai  
Duvernoy Op. 176, No. 8 Easy listening Easier   1 pg 1:15 📺 Celia Tsai  
Duvernoy Op. 176, No. 9 Easy listening Easier   1 pg 0:35 📺 Celia Tsai  
Duvernoy Op. 176, No. 18 Atmospheric Easier   2 pg 1:15 📺 Celia Tsai  
Czerny “School of Velocity” Op. 299 No. 1 Easy listening Hard   1½ pg 0:40 📺 Kawaz  
Czerny “School of Velocity” Op. 299 No. 2 Easy listening Hard   1+ pg 0:40 📺 Kawaz  
Czerny “School of Velocity” Op. 299 No. 3 Easy listening Hard   1½ pg 0:45 📺 Kawaz  
Czerny “School of Velocity” Op. 299 No. 4 Easy listening Hard   1½ pg 0:35 📺 Kawaz  
Czerny “School of Velocity” Op. 299 No. 5 Easy listening Hard   2½ pg 1:30 📺 Kawaz  
Czerny “School of Velocity” Op. 299 No. 6 Easy listening Hard   2 pg 1:00 📺 Kawaz  
Czerny “School of Velocity” Op. 299 No. 7 Easy listening Hard   2 pg 1:20 📺 Kawaz  
Czerny “School of Velocity” Op. 299 No. 8 (partly) Easy listening Hard   4 pg 1:40 📺 Kawaz  
Czerny “School of Velocity” Op. 299 No. 11 Easy listening Hard   2 pg 1:00 📺 Kawaz  
Hanon “The Virtuoso Pianist” No. 1 Exercise Medium   1 pg 0:45 📺 Alan Chan  
Hanon “The Virtuoso Pianist” No. 2 Exercise Medium   1 pg 0:45 📺 Alan Chan  
Hanon “The Virtuoso Pianist” No. 3 Exercise Medium   1 pg 0:45 📺 Alan Chan  
Hanon “The Virtuoso Pianist” No. 4 Exercise Medium   1 pg 0:45 📺 Alan Chan  
Hanon “The Virtuoso Pianist” No. 5 Exercise Medium   1 pg 0:45 📺 Alan Chan  
Hanon “The Virtuoso Pianist” No. 6 Exercise Medium   1 pg 0:45 📺 Alan Chan  
Hanon “The Virtuoso Pianist” No. 7 Exercise Medium   1 pg 0:45 📺 Alan Chan  
Hanon “The Virtuoso Pianist” No. 8 Exercise Medium   1 pg 0:45 📺 Alan Chan  
Hanon “The Virtuoso Pianist” No. 9 Exercise Medium   1 pg 0:45 📺 Alan Chan  
Hanon “The Virtuoso Pianist” No. 10 Exercise Medium   1 pg 0:45 📺 Alan Chan  
Hanon “The Virtuoso Pianist” No. 11 Exercise Medium   1 pg 0:45 📺 Alan Chan  

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