A complete performance of David Rakowski's "Mikronomicon" A performance by Boston Musica Viva with Geoffrey Burleson as the piano/melodica soloist. Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, MA, June 16, 2012. The conductor is Richard Pittman. This version has the audio recorded by the audio engineer laid in, rather than the audio from the video camera. "Mikronomicon" is a microconcerto for piano (and melodica) and 5 instruments commissioned by Boston Musica Viva and written for Geoffrey Burleson. Personnel are: Geoffrey Burleson, piano and melodica Ann Bobo, flute William Kirkley, clarinet Bayla Keyes, violin Jan Müller-Szeraws, 'cello Robert Schulz, percussion (vibraphone, marimba, glockenspiel and melodica) Richard Pittman, conductor The individual movements may also be viewed on YouTube. The camera was placed in the balcony in a stationary position, without an operator, and was too close to film the entire stage. Mikronomicon is copyright © by CF Peters. Uploaded with their permission.

REPERTOIRE

Numerous solo works and concerti of J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, D. Scarlatti, Haydn, W..A. Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Liszt, Thalberg, Saint-Saëns, and Brahms

Camille Saint-Saëns: Complete Solo Piano Music, including unpublished works receiving premieres (recorded on Naxos Grand Piano on 6 volumes)

20th/21st Century Solo Works

Isaac Albeniz: Iberia, Book 1

George Antheil: Sonata No. 2, “The Airplane” (1922)

Louis Andriessen: Trepidus (1983)

Milton Babbitt: Partitions (1957)

Bèla Bartók: Out of Doors, and Sonata

Paul Ben-Haim: Nocturne, Op. 20B, and Toccata, Op. 34

Alban Berg: Sonata, Op. 1

Arthur Berger: complete works for solo piano

William Bolcom: 12 New Etudes (1977-1986)

Pierre Boulez: Sonata No. 3 (1957-)

Earle Brown: 4 Systems (1954)

Elliott Carter: 90+ (1994), Two Diversions (1999), Retrouvailles (2000), Two Thoughts about the Piano (2005-06)

Aaron Copland: Passacaglia (1922) and Variations (1930)

George Crumb: Makrokosmos, Volume 1

Mario Davidovsky: Sychronisms No. 6 for piano and electric sounds (1971)

Claude Debussy: Pour le Piano (1901), Éstampes (1903), L’isle joyeuse (1904), Preludes, Books I and II (complete)

William Duckworth: Time Curve Preludes (1977-78)

Henri Dutilleux: Piano Sonata (1947-48)

Hanns Eisler: Sonata No. 2 (1924)

Morton Feldman: Piano (1977), Triadic Memories (1981), Palais de Mari (1986)

Roy Harris: Piano Sonata, Op. 1 (1928), Suite for PIano (1944), Toccata (1949). Complete piano works of Roy Harris recorded on Naxos.

Paul Hindemith: Suite “1922”

Karel Husa: Sonata No. 2 (1975)

Charles Ives: Three-Page Sonata, Sonata No. 1, Sonata No. 2 “Concord, Mass. 1840-1860”

Betsy Jolas: Pièce pour Saint-Germain (1980)

Leon Kirchner: Piano Sonata No. 1 (1948)

Mary Kouyoumdjian: Aghvani (2009)

Tania León: Ritual (1987)

G. Ligeti: Études, Book 1 (complete)

Eric Moe: Grande Étude Brilliante (1991)

Conlon Nancarrow: Tango? (1983)

Luigi Nono: “…..sofferte onde serene…”, for piano and electronic sound (1976)

Vincent Persichetti: Piano Sonatas 1-12 (recorded for New World Records)

Sergei Prokofiev: Toccata, Op. 11, and Piano Sonatas Nos. 2, 3, 6, 7 and 8

S. Rachmaninoff: Études-tableaux, Op. 39, Nos. 1-5

David Rakowski: numerous études and preludes

Einujahani Rautavaara: Complete Piano Études

Maurice Ravel: Miroirs (1905) and Gaspard de la Nuit (1908)

Frederic Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (1975)

Laurie San Martin: Dances for Solo Piano (2004-2007)

Arnold Schoenberg: 6 Klavierstücke, Op. 19, and Suite, Op. 25

K. Stockhausen: Klavierstück IX, X, and XI

T. Takemitsu: Piano Distance (1961)

George Walker: Sonata No. 2 (1966)

Gregory TS Walker: the mountain’s third face (1998)

Anton Webern: Variations, Op. 27

Barbara White: Reliquary (2001; premiere)

Yehudi Wyner: Refrain

Iannis Xenakis: Mists (1981)

Frank Zappa/arr. Burleson: Bebop Tango

20th-21st Concerti

Pozzi Escot: Piano Concerto (1982)

George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue and Concerto in F

Aram Khachaturian: Piano Concerto in D-Flat

Sergei Prokofiev: Concerti Nos 1, 2 and 3

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Concerti Nos 2 and 3

David Rakowski: Piano Concerto No. 3 (2021; will give the premiere performance of this work); Mikronomicon, concerto for piano/melodicas and chamber ensemble (2010)

Maurice Ravel: Concerto in G Major; Concerto for the Left Hand

Yehudi Wyner: Chiavi in Mano (2004)

Klaas de Vries: Piano Concerto (2009; premiere with Boston Musica Viva)