Concerto Repertoire

Sara Davis Buechner has one of the widest concerto repertoires of any major pianist appearing before the public today.  In concert, she has performed over 100 different works for piano and orchestra, and has studied many more.

Among the major orchestras with which she has performed are the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, Rochester Philharmonic, New Orleans Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony, Victoria Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Montreal Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra London, BBC Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Kuopio Philharmonic (Finland), Japan Philharmonic, Antwerp Philharmonic (Belgium), Orquestra de Castilla y Leon (Spain), Slovak Philharmonic, Moscow Radio Orchestra, and Sydney Symphony Orchestra (Australia).

Some of the conductors with whom Ms. Buechner has collaborated are Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Mario Bernardi, Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich, Max Bragado-Darman, Boris Brott, Sylvan Cambreling, Michael Christie, Sergio Comissiona, Edo de Waart, Edward Downes, Sixten Ehrling, JoAnn Falletta, Ivan Fischer, David Gilbert, Neil Gittleman, Kenneth Hsieh, Kristen Jarvi, Kenneth Jean, Kenneth Kiesler, Wanda Kaluzny, Zdenek Kosler, Jahja Ling, Andrew Litton, David Lockington, George Manahan, John Mauceri, Nicholas McGegan, Gustav Meier, Jorge Mester, Daniel Meyer, David Alan Miller, Tania Miller, Kent Nagano, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Georges Octors, Sakari Oramo, Kenneth Schermerhorn, Gunther Schuller, Gerard Schwartz, David Sedaris, Joseph Silverstein, Vasily Sinyisky, Leonard Slatkin, Lawrence Leighton Smith, Alain Trudel, Hugh Wolff, Gerhardt Zimmerman and David Zinman.

Here is a complete list of Ms. Buechner's active Repertoire of Concertos and other Works for Piano and Orchestra. For your convenience, the works are listed by chronological categories.

                                       

BAROQUE and CLASSICAL    
  Bach - Busoni Concerto in D minor
  Ludwig van Beethoven Complete (5) Piano Concertos
    Choral Fantasy
   

Triple Concerto

  Franz Joseph Haydn Concerto in D major
    Concerto in G major
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Complete (18) Piano Concertos

       many with original cadenzas by Sara Davis Buechner
    Two Concert Rondos KV 382 and 386
    Concertos for Two and Three Pianos and Orchestra KV 242 and 365

EARLY ROMANTIC

   
  Felix Mendelssohn Piano Concertos nos. 1 and 2
    Rondo brillante
    Capriccio brillante
    Serenade and Allegro giocoso
  Schubert-Liszt "Wanderer" Fantasy

Carl Maria von Weber

Piano Concertos nos. 1 and 2

    Konzertstuck op. 79

ROMANTIC

   
  Johannes Brahms Piano Concertos nos. 1 and 2
  Frederic Chopin Piano Concertos nos. 1 and 2
    Fantasy on Polish National Airs op. 13
   

Krakowiak op. 14

  Antonin Dvorak Piano Concerto in G minor
  Edvard Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor
  Franz Liszt Piano Concertos nos. 1 and 2
    Hungarian Fantasy
    Totentanz
  Liszt - Busoni Spanish Rhapsody
  Robert Schumann  Piano Concerto in A minor
  Clara Wieck Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor
  Richard Strauss Burleske
  Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto no. 1

VIRTUOSO ROMANTIC WARHORSES

of the Piano's Golden Age

 

 

  Hermann Goetz Piano Concerto in B flat major
  Adolf von Henselt Piano Concerto in F minor
  Henry Litolff Scherzo, from Concerto Symphonique no. 4
  Josef Marx Romantic Piano Concerto
  Moritz Moszkowskii Piano Concerto in E major

Ignaz Jan Paderewski Piano Concerto in A major
    Fantasy on Polish Themes
  Anton Rubinstein Piano Concerto no. 4 in D minor
ELEGANT FRENCH MASTERWORKS    
  Cecile Chaminade Concertpiece
  Gabriel Faure Ballade
    Fantaisie
  Cesar Franck Variations Symphoniques
    Les Djinns
  Vincent d'Indy Symphony on a French Mountain Air
  Francis Poulenc Piano Concerto
    Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra
  Maurice Ravel Concerto in G
  Camille Saint-Saens Piano Concerto no. 2 in G minor
  Germaine Tailleferre Ballade
RHAPSODIC RUSSIANS    
  Sergei Prokofieff Piano Concertos nos. 1 and 3
  Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos nos. 1 and 2
    Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
  Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Concerto no. 1
  Igor Stravinsky Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
  Peter Ilyitch Tschaikowsky Piano Concerto no. 1
AMERICAN CLASSICS    
  Leonard Bernstein Symphony no. 2 "The Age of Anxiety"
  Marc Blitzstein Piano Concerto (1931)
  John Alden Carpenter Concertino
  Aaron Copland Piano Concerto (1926)
  John Corigliano Piano Concerto (1968)
  George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
    Second Rhapsody
    Concerto in F
    "I Got Rhythm" Variations
  Louis Moreau Gottschalk Grand Tarentella
    The Union (Fantasy on Patriotic Themes)
  Edward MacDowell Piano Concertos nos. 1 and 2
THE 20th CENTURY    
  Bela Bartok Complete (3) Piano Concertos
  Ferruccio Busoni Concerto for Piano, Orchestra and Male Chorus
  Manuel de Falla Noches en las Jardinias de Espana
  Paul Hindemith The Four Temperaments
  Leos Janacek Capriccio for Piano Left-Hand and Wind Instruments
    Concertino
  Vitezslava Kapralova Partita for Piano and String Orchestra
       North American premiere performance
  Constant Lambert "The Rio Grande" for Piano, Orchestra and Chorus
  Dinu Lipatti Concertino in Classic Style
    Three Roumanian Dances
  Bohuslav Martinu Piano Concertos nos. 2 and 4
    Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra
  Einojuhani Rautavaara Piano Concerto no. 1
  Joaquin Turina Rapsodica Sinfonica
  Akio Yashiro Piano Concerto (1967)

PIANO CONCERTOS by the

MASTERS OF HOLLYWOOD CINEMA

   
  Richard Addinsell Warsaw Concerto
       from the motion picture "Dangerous Moonlight"
  Bernard Herrmann Concerto Macabre
       from the motion picture "Hangover Square"
  Miklos Rozsa Spellbound Concerto
       from the motion picture "Spellbound"
    Piano Concerto (1968)
  Franz Waxman Paradine Rhapsody
       from the motion picture "The Paradine Case"
MUSIC of OUR TIME    
  Richard Danielpour Metamorphoses (1989)
       world premiere performance
  Frederic DeVreese Piano Concerto no. 4 (1983)
  Kenneth Lampl  Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra (1995)
       world premiere performance
  William Thomas McKinley   Piano Concerto no. 2 (1988)
       world premiere performance
  Charles Wuorinen Piano Concerto no. 3 (1983)

 

 

 

 

 


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