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Repertoire

Concertos

Johann Sebastian Bach

Concerto in F minor BWV 1056

Concerto for two pianos in C major BWV 1061

Concerto for two pianos in C minor BWV 1062

Amy Beach

Concerto in C-sharp minor Op. 45

Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto No. 1 in C major Op. 15

Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major Op. 19

Concerto No. 3 in C minor Op. 37

Johannes Brahms

Concerto No. 1 in D minor Op.  15

Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major Op. 83

Frédéric Chopin

Concerto No. 1 in E minor Op. 11

Concerto No. 2 in F minor Op. 21

Andante spianato et grande polonaise brilliante Op. 22

George Gershwin

Concerto in F

Rhapsody in Blue

Edvard Grieg

Concerto in A minor Op. 16

Joseph Haydn

Concerto No. 11 in D major Hob.XVIII/11

Jennifer Higdon

Piano Concerto (2006)

Franz Liszt

Concerto No. 2 in A major

Kang Jiandong

Qilianshan Rhapsody (c. 2000)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Concerto No. 8 in C major K. 246 

Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major K. 271

Concerto No. 13 in C major K. 415

Concerto No. 17 in G major K. 453 

Concerto No. 18 in B-flat major K. 456

Concerto No. 19 in F major K. 459

Concerto No. 20 in D minor K. 466 

Concerto No. 21 in C major K. 467 

Concerto No. 22 in E-flat major K. 482 

Concerto No. 23 in A major K. 488 

Concerto No. 24 in C minor K. 491 

Concerto No. 25 in C major K. 503 

Concerto for three pianos no. 7 in F major K. 242

Concerto for two pianos no. 10 in E-flat major K. 365

Florence Beatrice Price

Piano Concerto in One Movement

Sergei Prokofiev 

Concerto No. 3 in C major Op. 26 

Sergei Rachmaninoff 

Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor Op. 1 (1918)

Concerto No. 2 in C minor Op. 18 

Concerto No. 3 in D minor Op. 30 

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op. 43 

Camille Saint-Saëns 

Concerto No. 2 in G minor Op. 22 

Robert Schumann 

Concerto in A minor Op. 54

Introduction and Allegro appassionato in G major Op. 92

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 

Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor Op. 23

Concerto No. 2 in G major Op. 44

Concert Fantasy in G major Op. 56

Chamber music

Samuel Barber 

The Secrets of the Old for voice and piano, Op. 13 No. 2 

Amy Beach

Romance for violin and piano Op. 23

Ludwig van Beethoven 

Piano Trio in E-flat major, Op. 1 No. 1 

Piano Trio in G major, Op. 1 No. 2 

Piano Trio in B-flat major, Op. 11

Piano Trio in D major, Op. 70 No. 1 (“Ghost”) 

Quintet for Piano and Winds (Piano Quartet) in E-flat major, Op. 16 

Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2 in G minor, Op. 5 No. 2

Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 3 in A major, Op. 69 

Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 5 in D major, Op. 24 ("Spring")

Johannes Brahms 

Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 

Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8 (1889)

Scherzo from the "F-A-E" Sonata for violin and piano, WoO 2

Sonata for Cello and Piano in E minor, Op. 38

Sonata for Cello and Piano in F major, Op. 99

Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major, Op. 78 

Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major, Op. 100

Sonata for Violin and Piano in D minor, Op. 108

Max Bruch 

8 Pieces for Viola, Clarinet, and Piano Op. 83 

Rebecca Clarke 

Piano Trio 

Claude Debussy 

Sonate pour violoncelle et piano 

Antonín Dvořák 

Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81 

Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 87

Edward Elgar 

Salut d’amour, Op. 12 

Manuel de Falla 

Suite populaire espagnole

César Franck

Sonata in A major for Violin (Cello) and Piano

Edvard Grieg

Cello Sonata in A minor Op. 36

Melodies of the heart Op. 5

Violin Sonata No. 2 in G major, Op. 13

Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45

Jake Heggie 

A Lucky Child from At the State of Venus for soprano and piano (2005) 

Jules Massenet 

Élégie 

Felix Mendelssohn 

Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 

Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478

Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, K. 493

Piano Trio in G major, K, 564

Sonata for Violin and Piano in C major, K. 296

Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major, K. 301 

Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor, K. 304 

Sonata for Piano Four Hands in D major, K. 381 

Sonata for Piano Four Hands in C major, K. 521 

Sonata for Two Pianos in D major, K. 448 

Francis Poulenc

Sonata for Piano Four Hands

Sonata for Two Pianos

Sergei Prokofiev 

Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 119 

Sergei Rachmaninoff 

Sonata for Piano and Cello in G minor, Op. 19 

Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 17 

Maurice Ravel 

Piano Trio in A minor

Franz Schubert 

Arpeggione Sonata, D. 821 

Fantasia in F minor for piano four hands, Op. posth. 103 D. 940 

Fantasy for Violin and Piano in C major, D. 934 

Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 

Piano Sonata in C major for piano four-hands ("Grand Duo"), Op. 140 D. 812

Trois marches militaries for piano four hands, Op. 51 D. 733 

Robert Schumann

Fantasiestücke, Op. 73

Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 47

Bright Sheng

Four Movements for Piano Trio (1990)

Bedřich Smetana 

Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15 

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 

Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50 (w/ cut inVariazione finale e coda. See IMC ed., p. 67)

William Walton 

Piano Quartet 

Solo Repertoire

John Adams 

China Gates (1977) 

Isaac Albéniz

Iberia, Book I

Johann Sebastian Bach 

Aria "Sheep May Safely Graze" from Hunting Cantata, BWV 208 (arr. Petri)

Arioso from Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056 (arr. Cortot)

Chorale "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" from Cantata, BWV 147 (arr. Hess)

English Suite No. 2 in A minor, BWV 807 

English Suite No. 4 in F major, BWV 809

English Suite No. 5 in E minor, BWV 810 

French Suite No. 3 in B minor, BWV 814

French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816 

French Suite No. 6 in E major, BWV 817 

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

15 Two-Part Inventions, BWV 772-786

Three-Part Inventions (Sinfonias):

  • C minor, BWV 788
  • D major, BWV 789
  • F minor, BWV 795
  • G major, BWV 796
  • G minor, BWV 797
  • B minor, BWV 801

Partita No. 3 in A minor, BWV 827

Partita No. 5 in G major, BWV 829

Preludes and Fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: 

  • C major, BWV 846 
  • C minor, BWV 847 
  • C-sharp major, BWV 848 
  • D major, BWV 850 
  • D minor, BWV 851 
  • E major, BWV 854 
  • E minor, BWV 855 
  • F minor, BWV 857 
  • G major, BWV 860 
  • G minor, BWV 861 
  • A-flat major, BWV 862 
  • A minor, BWV 865 

Preludes and Fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: 

  • C major, BWV 870 
  • C minor, BWV 871 
  • C-sharp major, BWV 872 
  • D minor, BWV 875 
  • F-sharp minor, BWV 883 
  • G major, BWV 884
  • G-sharp minor, BWV 887 
  • A major, BWV 888 
  • A minor, BWV 889 

Samuel Barber

Sonata for Piano, Op. 26

Amy Beach 

Four Sketches, Op. 15 

Romance for violin and piano, Op. 23 (arr. Michael Lu)

Ludwig van Beethoven 

Andante favori, WoO 57

Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2 No. 1 

Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2 No. 3 

Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-flat major, Op. 7

Piano Sonata No. 6 in F major, Op. 10 No. 2 

Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major, Op. 10 No. 3 

Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 (“Pathetique”) 

Piano Sonata No. 9 in E major, Op. 14 No. 1 

Piano Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 14 No. 2 

Piano Sonata No. 13 in E-flat major, Op. 27 No. 1 (“Quasi una fantasia”) 

Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 (“Moonlight”) 

Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28 (“Pastoral”) 

Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49 No. 1 

Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major, Op. 49 No. 2 

Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 (“Waldstein”) 

Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major, Op. 54

Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (“Appassionata”) 

Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp major, Op. 78 (“A Therese”) 

Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90 

Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101

Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109

Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111

Two rondos Op. 51

Six bagatelles Op. 126

Margaret Bonds

Troubled Water

Johannes Brahms 

Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, Op. 1

Sechs Klavierstücke, Op. 118 

Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Books I and II, Op. 35 

Vier Klavierstücke, Op. 119 

Teresa Carreño

Highland, Op. 38 

La fausse note, Op. 39

Frédéric Chopin 

Ballade in G minor, op. 23 

Ballade in F major, op. 38 

Ballade in A-flat major, Op. 47 

Ballade in F minor, op. 52 

Barcarolle in F-sharp major, Op. 60 

12 Etudes, Op. 10 

Etudes, Op. 25: 

  • No. 1 in A-flat major (Aeolian Harp) 
  • No. 2 in f minor 
  • No. 3 in F major 
  • No. 6 in g-sharp minor 
  • No. 9 in G-flat major 
  • No. 10 in b minor (Octave) 
  • No. 11 in a minor (Winter Wind) 

Fantasy in F minor, Op. 49 

Impromptu in C-sharp minor, Op. 66 (“Fantaisie-Impromptu”)

Largo from Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65 (arr. Cortot)

Mazurka in C major, Op. 24 No. 2 

Mazurka in F minor, Op. 68 No. 4 

3 Mazurkas, Op. 59 

Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 1 

Nocturne in D-flat major, Op. 27 No. 2 

Nocturne in c minor, Op. 48 No. 1 

Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. posth.

Polonaise in A major, Op. 40 No. 1 (Military)

Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53 (Polonaise heroique) 

Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-flat major, Op. 61 

Scherzo in B-flat minor, Op. 31

Scherzo in C-sharp minor, Op. 39

Scherzo in E major, Op. 54 

Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 34 No. 1 

Waltz in a minor, Op. 34 No. 2 

Waltz in F major, Op. 34 No. 3 

Waltz in D-flat major, Op. 64 No. 1 (Minute) 

Waltz in c-sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2 

Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 69 No. 1 

Waltz in b minor, Op. 69 No. 2 

Waltz in e minor, Op. posth 

Waltz in a minor, Op. posth 

Claude Debussy 

Etude No. 11 Pour les arpeges composes 

Preludes Book I:

  • Le vent dans la plaine 
  • Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir 
  • Les collines d’Anacapri 

Preludes Book II:

  • Feux d’artifice 

Suite bergamasque 

Robert Nathaniel Dett

Cave of the Winds

In the Bottoms

César Franck 

Prélude, Choral et Fugue

Prelude, fugue, et variation op. 18 (arr. Harold Bauer)

George Gershwin 

Three Preludes 

Edvard Grieg

Homesickness, Op. 57 No. 6

I Love Thee, Op. 41 No. 3

The Poet's Heart, Op. 52 No. 3

Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, Op. 65 No. 6

Arseniy Gusev (b. 1998)

24 Postludes (2016) nos. 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19

Adolphus Hailstork

Piano Sonata No. 2 (1989)

Franz Joseph Haydn 

Fantasia in C major, Hob. XVII:4 (Capriccio)

Piano Sonata in E minor, Hob. XVI:34

Piano Sonata in C major, Hob. XVI:35 

Piano Sonata in D major, Hob. XVI:37

Piano Sonata in G major, Hob. XVI:40

Piano Sonata in C major, Hob. XVI:50 

Variations in F minor, Hob.XVII:6

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

Das Jahr (March, May, July, December, Nachspiel)

Jennifer Higdon

Notes of Gratitude (2017)

Leoš Janáček 

In the Mists

On an Overgrown Path, Book I 

Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 (“From the Street”) 

Scott Joplin

A Breeze from Alabama

The Chrysanthemum

The Easy Winners

Elite Syncopations

The Entertainer

Euphonic Sounds

Fig Leaf Rag

Harmony Club Waltz

Magnetic Rag

Maple Leaf Rag

Palm Leaf Rag

Pineapple Rag (Pine Apple Rag)

Rose Leaf Rag

Scott Joplin's New Rag

Solace

Sunflower Slow Drag

Wall Street Rag

Weeping Willow

Vítězslava Kaprálová

April preludes, Op. 13

Lowell Liebermann

Gargoyles, Op. 29

György Ligeti 

Étude No. 10 (“Der Zauberlehrling”) 

Franz Liszt 

Apres une lecture du Dante: Fantasia Quasi Sonata S.161/7 (“Dante Sonata”)

Chapelle de Guillaume Tell, S.160/1

Two Etudes S.145 (Waldesrauchen, Gnomenreigen) 

Paganini Etudes 

  • No. 2 in E-flat minor  
  • No. 3 in G-sharp minor (“La Campanella”) 

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in D-flat major

Mephisto Waltz No. 1

Piano Sonata in B minor 

Rhapsodie espagnole

Rigoletto Paraphrase

Lü Wencheng

Autumn Moon Over the Calm Lake (arr. Chen Peixun)

Nikolai Medtner

Forgotten Melodies II, Op. 39 (Canzona matinata, Sonata tragica)

Felix Mendelssohn 

Variations serieuses, Op. 54 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 

Fantasy in D minor, K. 397 

Complete piano sonatas:

Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, K. 279

Piano Sonata No. 2 in F major, K. 280

Piano Sonata No. 3 in B-flat major, K. 281

Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-flat major, K. 282

Piano Sonata No. 5 in G major, K. 283

Piano Sonata No. 6 in D major, K. 284

Piano Sonata No. 7 in C major, K. 309

Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, K. 310

Piano Sonata No. 9 in D major, K. 311

Piano Sonata No. 10 in C major, K. 330

Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331

Piano Sonata No. 12 in F major, K. 332

Piano Sonata No. 13 in B-flat major, K. 333

Fantasy and Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K. 475/457

Piano Sonata No. 15 in F major, K. 533/494

Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K. 545

Piano Sonata No. 17 in B-flat major, K. 570

Piano Sonata No. 18 in D major, K. 576

10 Variations on Unser dummer Pöbel meint in G major, K. 455 

Florence Beatrice Price

Clouds

Cotton Dance

Fantasie nègre No. 1 in E minor

Fantasie nègre No. 2 in G minor

Fantasie nègre No. 4 in B minor

Piano Sonata in E minor

Remembrance

Sergei Prokofiev 

Piano Sonata no. 3 in A minor, Op. 28 

Piano Sonata no. 7 in B-flat major, Op. 83 

Sergei Rachmaninoff 

Étude-Tableau in B minor, Op. 39 No. 4 

Étude-Tableau in E-flat minor, Op. 39 No. 5 

Prelude in D major, Op. 23 No. 4 

Prelude in E minor, Op. 32 No. 4

Prelude in G major, Op. 32 No. 5

Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42 

Maurice Ravel 

Miroirs 

Valses nobles et sentimentales

Juliane Reichardt

Piano Sonata in G major

Ren Guang

Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon (arr. Wang Jianzhong)

Julius Reubke

Scherzo, Op. 3

Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges 

Adagio in F minor

Domenico Scarlatti 

Piano Sonata in D minor, K. 9

Piano Sonata in B minor, K. 27

Piano Sonata in D minor, K. 32

Piano Sonata in C major, K. 159

Piano Sonata in E major, K. 380

Piano Sonata in G major, K. 427

Piano Sonata in C major, K. 513 

Franz Schubert 

Fantasie in C major, Op. 15 D.760 (Wanderer) 

Grazer Galopp, D. 925 

Hungarian Melody, D. 817 

4 Impromptus, Op. 90 D. 899 

4 Impromptus, Op. 142 D. 935 

Piano Sonata No. 2 in C major, D. 279 (unfinished)

Piano Sonata No. 8 in F-sharp minor, D. 571 (unfinished)

Piano Sonata No. 13 in A major, Op. posth. 120 D. 664 

Piano Sonata No. 17 in D major, Op. 53 D. 850

Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major, Op. 78 D. 894

Piano Sonata No. 19 in C minor, D. 958 

Piano Sonata No. 20 in A major, D. 959 

Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-flat major, D. 960 

6 Moments Musicaux, Op. 94 D. 780 

Robert Schumann 

Toccata in C major, Op. 7 

Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 

Kinderszenen, Op. 15 

Arabeske, Op. 18 

Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26 

Alexander Scriabin 

Etudes, Op. 8 (nos. 2, 10, 11, 12)

Six Preludes, Op. 13

Piano Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp major, Op. 30 

Bright Sheng

My Song (1989)

My Other Song (2007)

Dmitri Shostakovich

Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 (C major, D major, E minor, D-flat major)

Valentin Silvestrov

3 Bagatelles, Op. 1 (2005)

Hymn 2001

Sun Yiqiang

Spring Dance

P. I. Tchaikovsky 

Morceaux, Op. 72 (nos. 5 and 7)

Seasons, Op. 37bis (January, June, October, November, December)

George Walker

Piano Sonata No. 1

Piano Sonata No. 2

Piano Sonata No. 5 (2003)

Wang Yushi

Sun Flowers (arr. Ling Eryao)

Zhu Jianer

Happy Times (arr. Chu Wanghua)

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