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I know there might have been threads of this sort before, but....about half a year when getting an offer to perform with orchestra, I made an attempt to suggest some repertoire outside of the beaten path. The organizers wanted Ravel G major - I suggested the left hand concerto, along with one or two options far outside of standard rep. We ended up with the left hand concerto, which was a great choice, but it now seems likely an orchestra is willing to take up a lesser played concerto. I was asked to come up with various suggestions. Do you have any particular favourites? A few on my mind are:
Medtner - mainly the 1st concerto Szymanowski - 4th symphony ('Sinfonia concertante' for pi and orch) Samuil Feinberg - the three piano concertos, perhaps the 3rd in particular
When I made a post on Facebook about this the previous time I was offered an opportunity to play with orchestra, this is the list friends came up with. See if you can add anything to it!
I know there might have been threads of this sort before, but....about half a year when getting an offer to perform with orchestra, I made an attempt to suggest some repertoire outside of the beaten path. The organizers wanted Ravel G major - I suggested the left hand concerto, along with one or two options far outside of standard rep. We ended up with the left hand concerto, which was a great choice, but it now seems likely an orchestra is willing to take up a lesser played concerto. I was asked to come up with various suggestions. Do you have any particular favourites? A few on my mind are:
How could you miss out your fellow countryman Kimmo Hakola's great piano concerto?
It's my favourite contemporary concerto by a living composer, and has everything in it (from deep introspection to high-flying kicks).
OK, it runs into nearly an hour, but that's just a small detail.....
Tagliapietra (can't honestly say this one is a favorite, because I've never heard it. But I'd sure like to hear it. It's got a chorus part, interestingly. Maybe he was taking a cue from his teacher, Busoni)
Ligeti
Milhaud "Le Carnival d'Aix"
Hindemith
Blacher (he wrote three - I like them all)
Skalkottas - no. 2; no. 3 (a huge work, but with only a small wind orchestra as accompaniment)
Chavez - Arrau did the priemere, said it was the most difficult concerto he ever learned. It's a wonderful piece.
Denisov
Tishchenko - op. 54, for piano, flute, and strings; op. 144 for piano, violin, and strings
Zygmunt Stojowski: 1st Concerto in f# minor (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto Vol.28, Jonathan Plowright.)
Hermann Goetz: 2nd Concerto in B flat (I like the Volker Banfield recording.)
Moritz Moszkowski: 1st Concerto in b minor (Underplayed? It just received its world premier a few months ago by Ludmil Angelov. The Adagio is exquisitely beautiful.)
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