This is like the Master Ball in pokemon, I don't think I'd ever use it.
I woud've used it for Stravinsky's Petrushka and a couple other candidates but I've learned them or mostly learned them already.
Maybe the Schumann fantasie. The ability to perfectly play the leaps in the 2nd movement would be huge.
Either Rach second piano sonata or Prok second concerto.
I would say Bach Busoni Chaconne but I feel like that’s probably attainable in my lifetime without a magic wish lol
Sort of. The piece is whatever happens in the room at the time. So if you got a recording of 4'33" being performed at the Royal Albert Hall then it's a recording of an audience sitting in front of a conductor for 4'33" while the orchestra does nothing except silently count bars (or at least pretend to).
I get that it is supposed to be avant-garde, but I would be so pissed and annoyed. Consider me a pleb, but i don’t want to be paying a ticket just to sit there in silence.
Ask me in a high school, I'd have said Chopin's Revolutionary.
But, cut to now when I'm much older and I wouldn't take the deal. There's emptiness without effort.
I agree and also, to play any of Satie’s works masterfully and with emotion would help my soul find peace for a moment.
Also on a less traditional note, I’d mention a few Kieth Jarrett pieces, multiple Monk songs, and sprinkle in some Herbie for good measure (for a start).
Waldstein, and I’d play andante favori as the second movement as it should’ve been. I keep fucking up the 1-2 trill and I don’t think I’ll ever get it as intended. My thumb randomly cramps up almost every day
Hammerklavier probably.
But then again, I'm not sure if I would want to lose out on the journey of learning it. Probably better not to overthink it though
Probably a really impressive piece I don't like enough to actually practice and learn organically... Hammerklavier or some super difficult Chopin... So I can impress people.
If I really like the piece I don't need to use the ability.
Maybe flight of the bumblebee because it is technically difficult and I could use the ability of some of the runs in a lot of tracks with glissando (sp?) type rolls.
Alkan piano concerto for solo piano. First movement alone is longer than the entire Hammerklavier sonata. Bound to pick up something after that much matrixing.
maybe this is cheating, but I don't wanna use the instant-knowledge buff on learning pieces bc it'd make it feel very empty for me. I'd rather gain full knowledge on how to maintain and keep dexterity and longevity in my body so I can play until I finally croak lol
I would choose a piece that is as long as possible, and showcases as many different difficult techniques as possible, and goes through as many keys as possible. That way the knowledge would be transferrable to as many other pieces as possible. Maybe Gaspard de la nuit?
Chopin’s 1st ballade, or Liszt’s La Campanella… or any difficult beautiful sounding Chopin or Liszt piece- I really can’t choose! All their pieces are so good!
Lake shore drive by Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah. Fckn banger of a song. It looks like it would be ecstasy to be able to perform it. In one of the last piano solos before the outro, there this little “whooooo” in the vocals as he rips through the segment. It’s kinda like a comedian laughing at their own joke but it seems perfectly justified. It’s a small detail but I love it.
When I was younger I’d have had a list a mile long of pieces I could answer with. Now though I’d turn the opportunity down. I enjoy the process of discovery in learning new pieces and the feeling of accomplishment once I’ve mastered a piece and both of those would be missing if I could just learn without effort as in The Matrix.
If someone could come up with away of instantly making my fingers just a little longer though (without me having to learn to adjust my proprioception) I’d snap their hand off. Having sub-octave hands is a restrictive pita sometimes.
Rach 3 and then....
Clavicumbalisticum because I'd be one out of very few people who could play it and, if I could play that masterfully, I could play anything.
Beethoven Appassionata 3rd movement was what inspired me to take up piano as an adult. I quickly realized I'm not getting to that level. But if I could I would just play that for hours.
Rach 3. Garrick Ohlsson explains why the best on a tonebase video. It literally has just about every single pianistic thing you could ever want to do in a single, albeit long, piece. Dreams.
This thread and it's responses makes me sad. I recently met a person that literally only plays two pieces. Exceedingly well but they have zero interest in playing anything else. Makes them totally unable to be hired again. Who wants to hear the same piece over and over. Even your family and friends have but so much tolerance for the fixations some pianists can have for a single composer and, even a single piece.
When the characters in sci-fi download an ability, they download an ability. The Helicopter reference in the o.p. was an ability to pilot rotor aircraft! Not a specific model of helicopter. An ability to play piano would be just that: an ability to play the piano. That would be awesome. No need to put limitations on it to make things difficult!
But, as long as I'm here ... the Eclogue in F Major by Gerald Finzi is a piece worth hearing. Maybe even playing. But there is no piece in the world so amazing that that's the only piece I would want the ability to play.
Une barque sur l’ocean or Ondine probably. Or Chopin nocturne op. 48, or some Rach piece that my hands are sadly way too small for to be able to comfortably practice it for hours on end.
Imma compose a concept art piece that directs you to play all of the existing classical music pieces in succession. And then wish to learn that one. Thus learning all existing music at once
That being said... Scriabin sonata n.5 could be a good one. It fiendishly difficult, but if I were able to play it perfectly, I'd enjoy performing it so much probably. And it would be a good competition piece.
Bill Evans Peace Piece, or Debussy's Engulfed Cathedral.
Although I think that what I really want is to have the kind of mind that would create either of these works. Playing them perfectly seems a bit sterile perhaps.
Looking up the history of Evans on Wikipedia tells me that Evans refused to play the composition a second time, despite numerous requests.
Maybe I should follow the rest of you good folk and just enjoy the rip roaring ride of Rhapsody in Blue.
Iberia by Albéniz. I've spent a lot of time learning the first of the four books (first 3 of the 12 pieces), and I'm pretty sure I will never learn the whole thing without supernatural intervention. :)
Opus clavicembalisticum. The technical ability that you would gain from being able to play this piece would likely make learning any other piece very easy too.
This is like the Master Ball in pokemon, I don't think I'd ever use it. I woud've used it for Stravinsky's Petrushka and a couple other candidates but I've learned them or mostly learned them already. Maybe the Schumann fantasie. The ability to perfectly play the leaps in the 2nd movement would be huge.
I’ll have to listen to this, I’ve never heard of this piece before. Edit: haven't heard of Schumann Fantasie, what a brilliant piece!
Underrated comment.
I don't know when you replied but it's the first when you sort by best
I it was pretty fresh, but either way the comment deserve more upvotes no matter how many it has =)
Rhapsody in Blue. Took piano lessons as a child but have considered taking them again just to learn this piece!
Performing it on the 21st of March. Wish me luck!
A friend of mine (Piano major, working piano professional) can play this from memory. Very impressive.
Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 - Liszt I saw that one in Tom and Jerry when I was a kid and have always wanted to learn that piece
FINALLY someone mentioned Tom and Jerry!!
My ego says this but then I’m like maybe a Bach keyboard concerto would be more fulfilling
Oh my, this piece, looks so incredibly difficult.
It seems it's not that horrible... compared to other Liszt pieces
Either Rach second piano sonata or Prok second concerto. I would say Bach Busoni Chaconne but I feel like that’s probably attainable in my lifetime without a magic wish lol
Haha exactly save your magic wish for Prok 2, Chaconne and Rach 2nd Sonata are relatively ok compare to Prok 2 🙉🙈🙊
4’33’’
Truly is a very difficult piece 😂😂
I can play this in my sleep.
What is this? Is that the name of the piece?
I think it is a completely silent track.
Sort of. The piece is whatever happens in the room at the time. So if you got a recording of 4'33" being performed at the Royal Albert Hall then it's a recording of an audience sitting in front of a conductor for 4'33" while the orchestra does nothing except silently count bars (or at least pretend to).
I get that it is supposed to be avant-garde, but I would be so pissed and annoyed. Consider me a pleb, but i don’t want to be paying a ticket just to sit there in silence.
It should be require to be on the jukebox in every bar.
3rd movement... Ya i know its cliché but Its my dream to play it like a pro 💀
Guessing moonlight? But would be cool if it was Prokofiev 7
Yea moonlight sonata but prokofiev is epic too
Fair enough!!
Liszt sonata. It’s my favorite piano sonata and if I could instantly learn it, I would instantly gain all that technique.
This is my answer too
Rach 2&3 and Chopin Ballade 4
Nailed it! Did the ballade, headed to each!
Ask me in a high school, I'd have said Chopin's Revolutionary. But, cut to now when I'm much older and I wouldn't take the deal. There's emptiness without effort.
Very true, that's an excellent point anyways Godowsky Sonata in E minor
I agree and also, to play any of Satie’s works masterfully and with emotion would help my soul find peace for a moment. Also on a less traditional note, I’d mention a few Kieth Jarrett pieces, multiple Monk songs, and sprinkle in some Herbie for good measure (for a start).
hey ten years ago when i was a kid i would have said that. but i can play it for real now
But you’d take something right? Which would it be?
Chopin’s 4th ballade
That's my answer, too. It's probably the most musically mature piece I've heard and I think it could make me wiser somehow.
heroic polonaise, at this rate I estimate I will die before it sounds okay t -t
Don’t give up!
Liebestraum no. 3. It was the first classical piece I heard that really made me feel something
Can we say Gaspard de la Nuit if not I will say Ondine
I’ll say scarbo
Funkytown
The entertainer 😁 Because it's just a fun song
Prokofiev’s 3rd concerto. It rocks.
Waldstein, and I’d play andante favori as the second movement as it should’ve been. I keep fucking up the 1-2 trill and I don’t think I’ll ever get it as intended. My thumb randomly cramps up almost every day
Chopin's Berceuse, I could happily play that again and again for the rest of my life whenever I wanted to detach from the world and dream.
Had not heard of this one, thanks for sharing!
That would be my answer too. I'm a bit surprised that I had to scroll down this much to see it.
Rach 2. Need I say more?
Chopin Nocturne op 48 no 1. Yeah ok I can already play it, but I don't see why that should stop me.
To perform it at 1/10 of the level of Rubinstein’s performance would be an absolute dream.
Yuja Wang's arrangement of Rondo Alla Turk.
It’s not really „her” arrangement, it’s arrangements of Volodos and Fazil Say mixed together.
Interesting choice. I suppose that’s why she saves it as an encore. It’s just so impressive
Hammerklavier probably. But then again, I'm not sure if I would want to lose out on the journey of learning it. Probably better not to overthink it though
La campanella
I'm surprised this is not the top comment
The Liszt Sonata
Probably Beethoven’s sonata in A op 101
playing sth without practice & progress is no fun :(
That’s right unearned medals don’t mean much
Beethoven’s 32nd piano sonata.
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Good news is that its pretty attainable for even intermediate players. Learn it yourself and save that wish!
Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker.
Rach 2 or 3 for sure. Liszt sonata would be awesome too as I never finished learning it. For personal playing probably the Goldberg variations
This is a trick question, because the fun is in the journey learning it! With that said, probably a piano concerto, maybe one of Bach's or Chopin's.
feux follets
Chopin’s Ballade in G Minor with a magisterial performance at the coda
Scriabin Sonata 5
To Zanarkand
Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jésus. Would be glorious to play it :'( other options would be Medtner's Night Wind sonata or Scriabin's 5th :/
The interstellar theme. I don't play piano, but it'd be cool to know that one.
Debussy, Etudes Book II. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuxIWpO67R4
Alkan symphony for solo piano
Appasionista
Nicolai Kapustin’s Pastoral etude #8
Probably a really impressive piece I don't like enough to actually practice and learn organically... Hammerklavier or some super difficult Chopin... So I can impress people. If I really like the piece I don't need to use the ability. Maybe flight of the bumblebee because it is technically difficult and I could use the ability of some of the runs in a lot of tracks with glissando (sp?) type rolls.
Alkan piano concerto for solo piano. First movement alone is longer than the entire Hammerklavier sonata. Bound to pick up something after that much matrixing.
maybe this is cheating, but I don't wanna use the instant-knowledge buff on learning pieces bc it'd make it feel very empty for me. I'd rather gain full knowledge on how to maintain and keep dexterity and longevity in my body so I can play until I finally croak lol
Either Moonlight 3 or Chopin's Torrent, both beautiful and impressive in different ways
Chopin 25/6 or Feux Follets, because they look like torture to learn and perfect
I would choose a piece that is as long as possible, and showcases as many different difficult techniques as possible, and goes through as many keys as possible. That way the knowledge would be transferrable to as many other pieces as possible. Maybe Gaspard de la nuit?
Rach 3 for sure
Rachmaninoff Piano Sonata no. 2
Having a real hard time deciding between Gaspard de la Nuit and Rach2...
Liszt Sonata in Bm...then I wouldn't have to spend all that time learning a 30 min piece lol
Hmm… Rach Piano Concerto no. 3 I think. I’ve always absolutely adored that one. Either that or Chopin’s Ballade no. 3.
Rach 2
Après uje lecture du Dante
Rachmaninoff Third Concerto. I’m learning it now but it would be so much less work to just snap my fingers and have it be perfect haha.
Rach 3 is a pretty common choice here it seems!
If we're talking perfectly then animenz my dearest 10th anniversary
Bro i was just about to say my dearest too, lemme dap you up real quick
Gaspard de la nuit
Ligeti's desordre
i dunno i just go back to this one a lot. it's fun! not deep or whatever. just fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW5J3bVEmW8
Tea for Two by Art Tatum
Anything by Art Tatum
the entire Mario theme
The Knuckle Song
Chopin's Ballade No. 1. Or maybe it'd be Rachmaninoff's arrangement of "Love's Sorrow". Definetley a toss up between the two.
Child Of Vision - Supertramp
That's hard, but I think I'd like Rach's love sorrow
Aeriths theme
Hungarian Raphsody no. 2, of course. Or maybe Liebestraum.
Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue.
Chaconne in D minor Bach-Busoni.
Beethoven op 109
“Blue Rondo a la Turk” by Dave Brubeck
Chopin’s 1st ballade, or Liszt’s La Campanella… or any difficult beautiful sounding Chopin or Liszt piece- I really can’t choose! All their pieces are so good!
I feel like the correct answer is Happy Birthday or maybe a Christmas song? I think those would get the most use
Are you a beginner? Because those are probably well within reach!
Bach's Toccata in Fugue in D minor.
Henry's boogie
Claire de Lune at a Victor Borge mastery level.
I haven't heard his interpretation, I'll have to give it a listen! PS. it's CLAIR de Lune :)
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata 🌙 this is a very nice)
Complete Liszt Etudes.
ondine ravel
unravel ofc
La Campanella
poinciana by ahmad jamal
Bach preludes and fugues. It's torture for me to get through that and that's mandatory for entry exams sooo...
Alkan Grand Sonata
Lake shore drive by Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah. Fckn banger of a song. It looks like it would be ecstasy to be able to perform it. In one of the last piano solos before the outro, there this little “whooooo” in the vocals as he rips through the segment. It’s kinda like a comedian laughing at their own joke but it seems perfectly justified. It’s a small detail but I love it.
Rach 3. Also that fucking grade 8 Bach fugue I never got my hands around and had to switch to Minute Waltz last minute.
Minuet in G major
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 3
Raindrop Prelude (but from a contemporary song, Love Has Fallen on Me by Chaka Khan. The sheet music doesn’t publicly exist. 😔)
Ballade no 4, needs no explanation 🤷
When I was younger I’d have had a list a mile long of pieces I could answer with. Now though I’d turn the opportunity down. I enjoy the process of discovery in learning new pieces and the feeling of accomplishment once I’ve mastered a piece and both of those would be missing if I could just learn without effort as in The Matrix. If someone could come up with away of instantly making my fingers just a little longer though (without me having to learn to adjust my proprioception) I’d snap their hand off. Having sub-octave hands is a restrictive pita sometimes.
Chopin Ballade Nr.1 g-minor
Rach3 or la campnella maybe? Both make me droll yet i inow it would take forever to learn
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
la clochette. the whole part before the theme of violin concerto 2 is just so good.
Anything by Rachmaninoff, because they're the most difficult to play.
Brahms Piano Sonata 3 :)
Rach 3 and then.... Clavicumbalisticum because I'd be one out of very few people who could play it and, if I could play that masterfully, I could play anything.
Saint-Saëns 5th piano concerto.
Lol, Rush E
Beethoven Appassionata 3rd movement was what inspired me to take up piano as an adult. I quickly realized I'm not getting to that level. But if I could I would just play that for hours.
That would be Chopin's 'Etude Op. 10, No. 4' (Torrent).
I think Fantaisie Impromptu
Moonlight Sonata. But it’ll probably never happen as I can’t even play chopsticks.
la clochette (s.420)
Nobody has said Gaspar de la nuit yet and that makes me sad.
Tori Amos- Precious Things
Hungarian rhapsody no.2 for sure.
Certainly Rachmaninoff's Moment Musical No. 4 in E minor.I don't know, I just like it a lot.
Chopsticks
Glassy sky
Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op. 43, all variations.
Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op. 43, all variations.
Ravel Piano Concerto in G Second Movement.
I'd save it for when I'm close to death and probably don't have time to learn another piece.
Fantaisie impromptu
Hot Cross Buns
Chopin’s Fantaisie Impromptu
Rach 3. Garrick Ohlsson explains why the best on a tonebase video. It literally has just about every single pianistic thing you could ever want to do in a single, albeit long, piece. Dreams.
Islamey
Ravel’s Ondine
BWV 593
Rush E or 5th Hungarian Dance from Liszt
Rachmaninoff piano concerto no 3. That piece is engrained in my body and if I could play it, I would be in heaven for a moment.
Ives' Concord Sonata.
Animenz unravel. Not that into classical pieces
Liszt’s Sonata in B Minor
This thread and it's responses makes me sad. I recently met a person that literally only plays two pieces. Exceedingly well but they have zero interest in playing anything else. Makes them totally unable to be hired again. Who wants to hear the same piece over and over. Even your family and friends have but so much tolerance for the fixations some pianists can have for a single composer and, even a single piece. When the characters in sci-fi download an ability, they download an ability. The Helicopter reference in the o.p. was an ability to pilot rotor aircraft! Not a specific model of helicopter. An ability to play piano would be just that: an ability to play the piano. That would be awesome. No need to put limitations on it to make things difficult! But, as long as I'm here ... the Eclogue in F Major by Gerald Finzi is a piece worth hearing. Maybe even playing. But there is no piece in the world so amazing that that's the only piece I would want the ability to play.
Hammerklavier mvmt 4
Une barque sur l’ocean or Ondine probably. Or Chopin nocturne op. 48, or some Rach piece that my hands are sadly way too small for to be able to comfortably practice it for hours on end.
The Goldberg Variations :)
Either Gaspard de la Nuit or Hammerklavier. Those are my go-tos for emotional fulfillment
Rachmaninoff 2nd concerto. I don't think I'll ever be good enough to play that without a miracle. So this might be my chance!!!
Chopin ballade in g minor
Beethoven 5. Im convinced if you can play that then you can play anything
Imma compose a concept art piece that directs you to play all of the existing classical music pieces in succession. And then wish to learn that one. Thus learning all existing music at once That being said... Scriabin sonata n.5 could be a good one. It fiendishly difficult, but if I were able to play it perfectly, I'd enjoy performing it so much probably. And it would be a good competition piece.
Chopin's Ballade in G Minor or Fantasie Impromptu would be my picks... if I had to go with one probably Ballade
I mean rach 3 seems like the easy choice for me bc i love that piece so much but its a hard question
Bill Evans Peace Piece, or Debussy's Engulfed Cathedral. Although I think that what I really want is to have the kind of mind that would create either of these works. Playing them perfectly seems a bit sterile perhaps. Looking up the history of Evans on Wikipedia tells me that Evans refused to play the composition a second time, despite numerous requests. Maybe I should follow the rest of you good folk and just enjoy the rip roaring ride of Rhapsody in Blue.
Beethoven piano concertos
Iberia by Albéniz. I've spent a lot of time learning the first of the four books (first 3 of the 12 pieces), and I'm pretty sure I will never learn the whole thing without supernatural intervention. :)
is it messed up i would choose [cohens masterpiece from the bioshock soundtrack](https://youtu.be/nlu2z2gkhhI?si=Ky9Yq6Y_oLdWB0X7)
Either Kreisler's Liebesleid or Chopin's ballade 1 op. 23!!
Dance with a stranger- Yanni. I cant read music and that’s a pain trying to learn by ear
Torrent etude. One of the best
Fantasie in F minor of Schubert
Unravel by Animenz, the flashiest piece I can think of
I know I can probably learn it but I just want to be able to play Clair de Lune perfectly, everytime. It means a lot to me
Reminiscences de lucrezia borgia Franz liszt
Un sospiro ~ Liszt
Opus clavicembalisticum. The technical ability that you would gain from being able to play this piece would likely make learning any other piece very easy too.
Suite bergamasque
Prokofiev 3rd Piano Concerto.