Im just looking for some good classic piano music, I like songs that are beautiful and smooth sounding like the moonlight sonata, but I also like songs like Chopin's Etude Op. 10, No. 12 in C Minor.

The classic songs im listening to right now are:

Beethoven:

moonlight sonata
ode to joy (choral)

Chopin:

Etude Op. 10, No. 12 in C Minor
Raindrops prelude
Polonaise in A flat
Nocturne in G minor

thats pretty much it actually... i dont know many good piano players since ive never really looked before! I just like classical piano because i can chill out and relax and do my homework while listening to it :)

Thanks for any responses!

canon in D by pachabel

If you can play all three summer sections from the four seasons, your a badass.

get Claire De lune. my favorite piano piece by far. There is a version on youtube of David Oistrakh playing a solo violin with a modified piano arragement, it's divine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCuALWK6ZNg


This isn't by far my favorite version but is my all time favorite classical piece.

Fantasie-Impromptu - Frédéric Chopin
La Campanella - Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor - Franz Liszt
Moonlight Sonata - Ludwig van Beethoven
Rondo Alla Turca - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Für Elise - Ludwig van Beethoven

Transcendental etude no. 10 in F minor by Franz Liszt.

First things in my head from "beautiful and smooth" were Claude Debussy's Claire De Lune and Erik Satie's Gymnopedia No. 1.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DnB8rFVcQ8g

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Al5U1WJ48rM


If you like these then you should look into romantic/impressionist music. Rachmaninov would be a very good composer to listen too for piano music in this style.

You should also get the following Beethoven piano sonatas:

No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2, "The Tempest"
No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57, "Appassionata"
No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, "Pathetiqué"

Sonata Pathetique is better than Moonlight Sonata IMO TBQH. If you like Beethoven piano, you should listen to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsdIkUSjXv8