Top 10 chamber works w/piano (for 3 or more players)

[kyjo]

This has probably already been done before, but...(You may, of course, choose works for instrumentations other than just strings and piano like I did.)

Andreae: Piano Trio no. 2 in E-flat major
Bloch: Piano Quintet no. 1
Brahms: Piano Trio no. 1 in B major (both versions)
Chausson: Concert in D major
Dvořák: Piano Trio no. 3 in F minor
Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
Schubert: Piano Trio no. 2 in E-flat major
Suk: Piano Quartet in A minor
Taneyev: Piano Quartet in E major
Vaughan Williams: Piano Quintet in C minor

With sincere apologies to Fauré, Juon, Schumann, and many others...

P.S. I've always regretted that three of my favorite composers - Poulenc, Prokofiev, and Barber - never composed any piano trios/quartets/quintets. I feel like they would've been amazing! (Of course, Poulenc has his trio and sextet for winds and piano.)

[Total Rafa]

Beethoven: Piano Trio in E-flat major, Op.70 No.2
Brahms: Piano Trio No. 3
Elgar: Piano Quintet
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2
Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Schnittke: Piano Trio (arr. from String Trio)
Schumann: Piano Quintet
Smetana: Piano Trio
Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio
Turina: Piano Trio No. 2

bonus movements: David Matthews' Piano Trio No. 2 (adagio) and Babajanian's Piano Trio (andante).

[DaveF]

I think I could happily cobble together an essential 10 from your 2 lists so far, thank you, guys, but would also like to see included:

Shostakovich: Trio no.2 (which I find perhaps his most moving work of all, in any genre)
Brahms: Piano Quartet in C minor
Bach: Trio sonata from The Musical Offering (we did say "keyboard", not "piano", didn't we?)
Berg: Chamber concerto

[Wanderer]

Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1
Brahms Piano Quintet
Schumann Piano Quintet
Medtner Piano Quintet
Alkan Piano Trio
Dvořák Piano Trio No. 3
Schumann Piano Trio No. 3
Tchaikovsky Piano Trio
Korngold Suite for 2 Violins, Cello & left-hand Piano (Op. 23)
Beethoven "Archduke" Trio (Op. 97)

[Florestan]

Excluding piano trios (which has been done before)

Mozart - Piano Quartets (both), Quintet for Piano and Winds
Beethoven - Quintet for Piano and Winds
Schubert - "Trout" Quintet
Schumann - Piano Quartet
Brahms - Piano Quartet op. 60
Rubinstein - Octet for Piano, Winds and Strings
Arensky - Piano Quintet
Granados -Piano Quintet

[ritter]

Some suggestions  (in no particular order)

Stravinsky: Septet
Schoenberg: Suite, op. 29
Stockhausen: Kontra-Punkte
Enescu: Piano Quintet, op. 29
Boulez: Dérive 1 (for 8 instruments)
Hahn: Quartet No. 3 in G major (w. piano)
Vierné: Piano Quintet in C minor, op. 42
Milhaud: Suite for violin, clarinet and piano, op. 157b
Ravel: Trois poémes de Stéphane Mallarmé (for soprano and 9 instruments)
Carter: Quintet for piano and winds

[Karl Henning]

"Top 10" is impossible, but 10 of which I think highly, and which have not yet been mentioned (I think):

Copland Sextet
Prokofiev Ov on Hebrew Themes
Schoenberg Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte
Weinberg Quintet
Shostakovich Blok Romances
Bartók Sonata for two pianos & perc
Mozart Quintet for piano & winds
Brahms Horn Trio
Janáček Capriccio for piano (lh) & winds
Hindemith Kammermusik Op.36 #1

[bhodges]

This one is tough! But some of these lists are inspiring, so perhaps I'll come up with one.

--Bruce

[Symphonic Addict]

My all-time-favorite list:

L. van Beethoven - Piano Trio, op. 97
J. Brahms - Piano Quartet No. 3
A. de Castillon - Piano Quintet
B. Martinu - Les Rondes, for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, 2 violins and piano
F. Mendelssohn - Piano Trio No. 1
Z. Noskowski - Piano Quartet
L. Ornstein - Piano Quintet
S. Taneyev - Piano Quintet
P. I. Tchaikovsky - Piano Trio
H. Villa-Lobos - Piano Trio No. 2


A list with kind of recent stunning discoveries:

H. Pfitzner - Piano Trio, op. 8
N. Roslavets - Piano Trio No. 4
B. Tchaikovsky - Piano Trio
D. Wirén - Piano Trio No. 1

G. Enescu - Piano Quartet No. 1
H. Goetz - Piano Quartet
P. Vasks - Piano Quartet

T. Dubois - Quintet for piano, oboe and string trio
J. Jongen - Rhapsody for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon
M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Piano Quintet No. 1

[kyjo]

Fantastic lists, everyone!

[Karl Henning]

"Top 10" is impossible, but 10 of which I think highly, and which have not yet been mentioned (I think):

I was inattentive, Andrei had already listed the K.452, so I'll swap in some Wuorinen

Copland Sextet
Prokofiev Ov on Hebrew Themes
Schoenberg Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte
Weinberg Quintet
Shostakovich Blok Romances
Bartók Sonata for two pianos & perc
Wuorinen Second Quintet
Brahms Horn Trio
Janáček Capriccio for piano (lh) & winds
Hindemith Kammermusik Op.36 #1


Bonus: Another teacher of mine


Judith Shatin Ignoto numine

[Madiel]

Oh gosh. Hard. Because this is pretty close to being my favourite genre and one that I actually intend to devote WAY more time to sometime soon. But I'll have a go with the somewhat limited material already before me and no more than one per composer...

Brahms - Clarinet Trio
Bridge - Piano Trio No.2
Dvorak - Piano Trio No.3
Faure - Piano Quintet No.1
Mozart - Quintet for piano and winds
Nørgård - Spell
Poulenc - Sextet for piano and winds
Ravel - Piano Trio... or perhaps Trois poèmes de Mallarmé if that counts.
Schumann - Piano Quartet
Shostakovich - Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok

EDIT: Switched my Brahms choice to something not already covered.

[Brian]

Brahms: Horn Trio
Dohnanyi: Sextet
Dvorak: Piano Quartet No. 2, Quintet No. 2, Trio No. 4
Fauré: Piano Quartet No 1
Poulenc: Sextet
Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2
Schumann: Piano Quintet
Weinberg: Piano Trio

[Mirror Image]

Alright let's see if I can give this a shot...(in no particular order):

Shostakovich: Piano Quintet
Weinberg: Piano Quintet
Korngold: Piano Quintet
Enescu: Piano Quintet
Walton: Piano Quartet
Ravel: Piano Trio
Martinů: Musique de Chambre No. 1
Dvořák: Piano Quintet No. 2
Rachmaninov: Trio élégiaque No. 2
Schnittke: Piano Quintet

[kyjo]

Walton: Piano Quintet

Surely you mean quartet?

[Mirror Image]

Surely you mean quartet?

Ah yes, I'm not sure why I thought it was a quintet. And, yes, my list is a good one.

[not edward]

An attempt at an eclectic mix, roughly in order of how much I like them.

To prevent Brahms from eating up half of the list, I used only works previously unlisted and kept a maximum of one per composer. This left it skewed towards post-WW2 music.

Ligeti: Horn Trio
Brahms: Piano Quartet #2
Faure: Piano Quintet #2
Abrahamsen: Schnee
Janacek: Concertino for piano, two violins, viola, clarinet, French horn and bassoon
Boulez: sur Incises
Kurtag: Hommage a R. Sch
Eastman: Gay Guerrilla
Ustvolskaya: Compositions I-III
Ginastera: Piano Quintet

[Jo498]

Not sure if I can manage with the additional constraint of only works unlisted so far

Haydn: Trio A major Hob.15:18
Mozart: Kegelstatt trio K 498
Beethoven: Trio c minor op.1/3 (my greatest favorites op.70/2 and 97 have already been mentioned)
Schubert: Notturno
Mendelssohn: Trio #2
Schumann: Trio #2 (an overlooked piece, although honestly my absolute favorite is the piano quartet)
Franck: piano quintet
All Brahms favs have been mentioned, so I name Dohnanyi quintet #2 Eb minor
Fauré: piano trio
Bartok: Contrasts (double check that Karl Henning did not already pick that one)