oh my goodness, you definitely have a full plate. Chopin Impromptu, Chopin Berceuse, Rachmaninoff Prelude… all of those are hard and the Sonata and Siciliano can be really difficult depending on which you tackle.
I love “Landslide” by Fleetwood Mac and the Smashing Pumpkins. I’ve always loved this song but it’s even more meaningful as my kids grow up.
“Say Hello, Wave Goodbye” Soft Cell
“Harvest Moon” Neil Young and Poolside
And my all-time fav New Order “Bizarre Love Triangle”
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Glory of Love, Peter Cetera, from Karate Kid II
Song for a Winter’s Night, Sarah McLachlan
Broken Arrow, Rod Stewart
Learning to Fly, Pink Floyd
Shameless, Garth Brooks
Sea of No Cares, Great Big Sea
Message From The Cosmos, Kitaro (New Age, the whole Tenku album is really good)
I love Rachmaninoff - especially his 2nd piano concerto. That was my go to piece in high school, and I relearned it in college. Great piece for a moody teenage girl. It’s also good that I have ET like fingers. I can comfortably reach any 10th and can sort of reach an 11th. One of my former teachers was a student of Rachmaninoff. (She was very old 
She taught until she was almost 100!)
I also played Winter Winds. Loved that one too.
In college, I made it a lifetime goal to learn all of the Chopin ballades and scherzos. I learned 3/4 of the ballades (not #2) but none of the scherzos. My sister played #1 and #3 I think. But I haven’t played in years and don’t see me starting up any time soon.
I also love Bach. I also like non classical music too, but talking about classical stuff is nostalgic for me.
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Yes, Chopin had some awesome pieces. Too bad that he got TB. My current teacher is approaching 94. I guess piano teachers love what they do!! In fact, my teacher, although not a student of R, was a student of a Latvian composer, Arvid Zilinskis. Pretty famous guy in Latvia.
As for Scherzos, they are very challenging. I am only in HS so my fingers are still growing. It is not the complexity of the notes but rather the supersonic speeds and the passion (pedaling, voicing) that makes the piece challenging.
As for my favorite classical piece, for solo piano: Widmung by Robert Schumann and Franz Lizst
As for Philaharmonic, hands down: Gustav Mahler’s 10th symphony (only watch if you want to feel depressed). Beautiful piece and makes me want to cry. every. single. time.
Kind of a random list, but these are on heavy rotation:
Melt With You - Modern English
Catch the Wind - Donovan
What It’s Like - Everlast
Cough Syrup - Young the Giant
Julia - Mt. Joy
Love My Way - Psychedelic Furs
Mercy Mercy Me - Marvin Gaye
93 Million Miles - Jason Mraz
Just Like Heaven - The Cure
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye - David Gray
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hmm…i may have to listen to some of these. I know of Jason Mraz but nobody else. I am more of a 80’s, classical guy so this may not be my field of expertise…
Kashmir
Bohemian Rhapsody
Jungleland
Black
Comfortably Numb
Jeremy
One
Let It Be
Tangled Up In Blue
Respect
The Planets
Mahler 5
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oh so many. i have my favorites playlist i cycle through. Nothing too original, a few jazz and classical are in the mix.
some that I like:
93 million miles - jason mraz (gives me tears)
fix you - cold play
somebody that i used to know - goteye
give me one reason -tracy chapman
praise you - fatboy slim
i randomly listened to country music the other day and started laughing at the lyrics. SO funny and fun. Like “take my whiskey, or call me crazy but DONT TAKE MY TRUCK!”
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Yes, I can agree with you there… country music is very fun to listen to. My dad and I love this song, People are Crazy. It is a little bit sad but it supplements it with humor.
I don’t know if you know tavergirl, but she listed 93 Million Miles as well. I might have to listen to that song at some point 
As for Coldplay, Adventure of a Lifetime is one of my favs. Viva la Vida and Clocks are good as well.
Similar to Coldplay, the Chainsmokers are great as well. “Something just like this” literally brings tears to my eyes as I remember my elementary school days full of short-lived crushes…
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I can’t disagree with you when it comes to Bohemian Rhapsody. Just an art of work 
The planets, if you listen to mars, sounds just like Star Wars. Never respected John Williams after hearing it.
I personally like Mahler 10. I have not actually listened to Mahler 5 so I may need to take a peek at that one.
I bet if you heard most of them, you’d recognize them!
Maybe…I hear a lot of music on the radio so I probably have heard them before.
Is it just me or is most of today’s music just absolute trash? So much auto-tune. If you like rap and hip-hop, Biggy Small’s Hypnotize is really good (explicit)
I play 80s hits when I’m at school and music “fits” with what we are doing. More than one student has come up to me telling me, “You guys had all the good music. Ours sucks.”
I grew up on 70s and early 80s mostly, with Classical and Broadway thrown in because that “happens” when both of your parents were music majors and taught music! But '80s are easiest to play in school.
Yes…I wish I lived in the 80’s to be honest. Music was so good…movies were so good…fast food was so good. Everything was better. Now, auto-tune is everywhere, green-screens are everywhere, and a burger ends up turning out to be a shriveled lump of brown cardboard tossed on top of a beef patty that looks as if it came from a starved cow…
Congrats to your parents. Teaching music is soo much fun from what I have heard. I don’t listen to much of Broadway but if I need some happiness, I listen to Sincerely Me from Dear Evan Hansen.
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I’m old enough to now appreciate Sunrise, Sunset and If I Were a Rich Man from Fiddler on the Roof.
And I’ve always liked Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific going back to my young youth. (The actual musical predates me fortunately!)
Those and many Les Mis songs are on my phone playlist too.
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I wanted to read Les Miserables so badly but the audiobook reader had such a bad french accent. I couldn’t understand him at all.
Agree with Love My Way. Was used perfectly in “Call Me By My Name”
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Need to add
For Once in My Life—Stevie Wonder
I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash
Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher - Jackie Wilson
Seasons of Love from Rent
The Schuyler Sister from Hamilton