Tell me your favourite piano pieces

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Can anyone recommend me a lovely piece of music to learn?
I'm around grade 5 (have done loads of Einaudi, Schumann, Schubert, Bach etc). I've been playing the same pieces for ages and feel I want something new, maybe a bit of a challenge but not so hard I lose enthusiasm (if that makes sense). I don't enjoy playing Jazz.
Tell me your favourite piano pieces and inspire me! Thanks 😊

It’s years since I’ve played but have you tried any Clementi? Lots of lovely sonatas (I think!) that I played in the days when I was around grade 5.

The only classical music I like playing is beethoven - fur elise and moonlight sonata, if that's what you're after! I mostly play solo arrangements for popular music, my fave is hoppipolla by sigur ros, some Andrew Lloyd webber musical songs and other random pieces, and some disney classics thrown in! Happy to share which books I have if you want recommendations.

Oh I also like Canon in d, that's fairly easy. I passed grade 5 but find it fairly difficult to learn new stuff!

I've loved slogging through playing the pieces from the soundtrack to The Piano. I'm only about grade 3 and I find them quite difficult but they are written to sound fancy but be relatively easy to play (few accidentals, simple keys). They're lovely, especially The Heart Asks Pleasure First (the main theme), which is fast and has some shifting rhythms but is mostly arpeggios so can be learned off by heart quite well. Took me ages, but you'd probably manage better because you're farther along.

Chilli Gonzalez?
A big old book of Chopin - everything will be great.

Valse triste, Sibelius, piano solo sheet music.

Or maybe khatchachurian's Masquerade - I've just been belting out the waltz and feel all drama-y now, may go and fling myself on the sofa.

Both around G5 exam level I think.

Wow thank you all for so many great recommendations.. off to have a listen to them all. I've played canon in D, it's lovely. Also done moonlight sonata.
Never heard of Clementi so definitely on my list to have a listen...

Try Eric Satie gymnopdies and gnossienes. Beautiful pieces and I would think around grade 5. Or buy eg. Great Piano Solos books, a real mix of original music from classical, jazz, musicals - much will be too hard (I would guess it's grade 5 to 8) but there are some easier pieces and you get a lot for your money and some stretch pieces. If you do buy a compilation get a spiral bound one or it won't stay open

Bach's Prelude 1 in C Major, which will feel familiar if you're used to playing broken chords for your grades
Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9: No. 2 in E-flat major
Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini: Var. XVII

And for a challenge, Chopin's Heroic Polonaise

Rameau has lovely keyboard pieces that are not very hard to play, such as and . Handel's suites are also excellent, such as (the Prelude at the beginning might be too fast or uneven for you but listen on and I promise that you will find beautiful music )

Thank you @CoteDAzur - beautiful

Not sure about the grades, but as I'm so out of practice on the piano, I only tend to play reasonably easy pieces these days.

There are a good few Chopin Preludes that are technically easy, and very musically satisfying too.

Among other pieces I look at from time to time;

Nielsen 5 pieces and these little impromptus by Sibelius

Do you have a duet partner? I adored playing the Debussy Petite Suite with my sister when I was at about that level.

I am around Grade 5/6 and really enjoy playing these sort of pieces:

schumann kinderszenen

Raindrop Prelude Chopin

Beethoven Pathetique - second movement

Beethoven Bagatelles

Scott Joplin Magnetic Rag

Edward McDowell To a wild rose

Rondo alla turca
Great fun
Ooh and phantom of the opera

The Rachmaninov piece (3rd piano concerto) that was in Shine, film from yonks ago.

Ludovico Einaudi

Le onde

Just stunning Op, give it a listen

I'm learning it at the moment. I'm addicted.

Please stay away from Einaudi and his elevator musak, there's so much better real music out there.

Thanks again everyone, lots of great suggestions here. @Zhx3 I WISH I had a duet partner... gosh that would be fantastic.

Some of the Grieg lyric pieces? Arietta is beautiful and I think has been set for grade 4 in the past. Melody is also lovely. Chopin prelude no 6 op 28.

Here is a nice Beethoven Sonatina (F Major), which is probably around Grade 4. I learned it as a child and it's been lovely hearing dd playing it too.

Try Blumenlied by Gustav Lange. Listen to it on YouTube to see if you like it.

Anything by Debussy, love that duet 😍

The Solfegietto by CPE Bach is also nice piece - straightforward to learn but difficult to do well.

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One of my favourite books is this one, which I bought when I was around grade 5/6 level. You should be able to have a go at around 1/3 - 1/2 of the pieces in the book but it's lasted me for years!

Just recently started working on by Villa-Lobos.