Below is a selected list of Blair McMillen's solo repertoire. 

Traditional/contemporary, uptown/downtown, acoustic/electronic, improvised/fully notated:

the pieces below span a wide spectrum of styles and historical periods.  (Good music comes in all shapes and sizes.)   Enjoy! 

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   SOLO REPERTOIRE

Concerto Repertoire

   Adams, John

        "China Gates"

   Ades, Thomas

        "Still Sorrowing"

   Aguila, Miguel del

        "Conga"

   Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel

        Fantasia in Eb Major, Wq 58/6

   Bach, Johann Sebastian 

        Partita No. 1 in Bb Major

        Chaconne in D Minor for Solo Violin

                                            (arr. F. Busoni)

        Italian Concerto

        Selections from

            "Well-Tempered Clavier" Books I and II

   Barber, Samuel

        Nocturne, Op.33

   Bartok, Bela

        Sonata for Piano

        Selections from "Mikrokosmos" Books IV to VI

        Sonatina

        "Romanian Christmas Carols"

   Beethoven, Ludwig van

        Sonata No.1 in F Minor, Op.2 #1

        Sonata No.2 in A Major, Op.2 #2

        Sonata No.5 in C Minor, Op.10 #1

        Sonata No.6 in F Major, Op.10 #2

        Sonata No.9 in Eb Major, Op.14 #1

        Sonata No.10 in G Major, Op.14 #2

        Sonata No.14 in C# Minor, Op.27 #2 ("Moonlight")

        Sonata No.17 in D Minor, Op.31 #2 ("Tempest")

        Sonata No.22 in F Major, Op.54

        Sonata No.23 in F Minor, Op.57 ("Appassionata")

        Sonata No.24 in F# Major, Op.78

        Sonata No.26 in Eb Major, Op.81a ("Les Adieux")

        Sonata No.28 in A Major, Op.101

        Sonata No.30 in E Major, Op.109

        Sonata No.31 in Ab Major, Op.110

        6 Bagatelles, Op.126

        32 Variations in C Minor

   Berio, Luciano

        "Petite Suite"

        Sequenza IV

        "Rounds"

        Six Encores (Wasserklavier, Erdenklavier,

        Luftklavier, Feuerklavier, Brin, Leaf)

   Biscardi, Chester

        Piano Sonata

   Bolcom, William

        3 Ghost Rags

   Brahms, Johannes

        Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op.5

        Ballade No.4, Op.10 

        Waltzes, Op.39

        Two Rhapsodies, Op.79

        Three Intermezzi, Op.117    

        Four Klavierstücke, Op.119

   Cage, John

        "In a Landscape"

        "Radio Music"

        "Dream"

   Carpenter, John Alden

        Two Piano Pieces

   Charles, Ray

        "Blue Funk"

        "Cosmic Ray"

        "The Genius After Hours"

   Chopin, Frederic

        selected Etudes

        Ballade No.1 in G Minor, Op.23

        3 Ecossaises, Op. posth.

        Nocturne in Db Major, Op. 27 #2

        Polonaise in A Major, Op.40 #1 ("Military")

        Polonaise in Ab Major, Op. 53 ("Heroic")

        Berceuse, Op.57

        selected Waltzes and Mazurkas

        "Meine Freuden" (arr. F. Liszt)

   Clementi, Muzio

        Sonata in F# Minor, Op. 25 #5

   Copland, Aaron

        Piano Variations

        "El Salon Mexico" (arr. L. Bernstein)

   Corigliano, John

        Fantasia on an Ostinato

   Couperin, François

        "Le Carillon De Cythere"

   Crumb, George

        Five Pieces for Piano

        Processional

   Davidovsky, Mario

        Synchronisms No. 6 (for piano and tape)

   Debussy, Claude

        Preludes, Book I

        selected Preludes, Book II

        Estampes

        Images, Book I             

   De Rossi Re, Fabrizio

        "Hurucane (Demon-Spirit of the Wind)"

                                              (for piano and tape)

                (commissioned and premiered by Blair McMillen)  

   Dodge, Charles

        "Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental"

                                              (for piano and tape)

   Fauré, Gabriel

        Selected Preludes

   Feldman, Morton

        "Palais de Mari"

        Intersection #3

        Intermission #6

   Frescobaldi, Girolamo

        Toccata No.1, Book 2

   Gann, Kyle

        selections from "Private Dances" suite

   Gershwin, George

        Rhapsody in Blue (solo piano version)

        Three Preludes            

        selected song arrangements 

   Gosfield, Annie

        "Brooklyn, October 5, 1941"

        "The Wanton Brutality of a Tender Touch"

                (commissioned and premiered by Blair McMillen)

   Gould, Morton

        "Boogie The Woogie"

        "Boogie-Woogie Etude"

   Greenbaum, Mattew

        "Ballate"

                (commissioned and premiered by Blair McMillen)

   Harbison, John

        Gatsby Etudes

   Harris, Ross

        "Inharmonicity" (for amplified piano and tape)

   Haydn, Franz Josef

        Sonata in C Major, H XVI: 48

        Sonata in Eb Major, H XVI: 49

        Sonata in Eb Major, H XVI: 52

   Hyla, Lee

        Basic Training (N.Y. premiered by Blair McMillen)

   Ives, Charles

        "Song Without (good) Words"  (from "5 Piano Pieces")          

        Three Improvisations

        Study No.9 "The Anti-Abolitionist Riots"

        Study No.21 "Some Southpaw Pitching"

        Study No.23  

   Kirchner, Leon

        Five Pieces for Piano

   Lamont, Kyle

        Toccata

   Liebermann, Lowell

        Gargoyles

   Liszt, Franz

        from "Les Années de Pélegrinage"

            -"Vallée d'Obermann" (from 1st Year; Switzerland)

            -"Sposalizio" (from 2nd Year; Italy)

            -Petrach Sonnet No.123 (from 2nd Year)

            -"Apres une Lecture de Dante" (from 2nd Year)

            -"Invocation" (from 1st Year)

        "Funerailles"

        Ballade No.1 in Db Major

        Consolation No.3 in Db Major            

   Magnussen, Jon

        "Toccare!"

                (commissioned and premiered by Blair McMillen)

   Mendelssohn, Felix

        Variations Sérieuses, Op.54

   Moe, Eric

        "Where Branched Thoughts Murmur in the Wind"

        "Hey Mr. Drummachine Man" (for piano and tape)

   Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

        Six Variations on a Theme of Salieri, K.180

        selected Sonatas

   Naito, Akemi

        "Rain, Calling Autumn"

   Prokofiev, Sergei

        Piano Sonata No.2 in D minor, Op.14

        Piano Sonata No.7 in B flat, Op.83

        Sarcasms (5 pieces for piano), Op.17

   Rachmaninoff, Sergei

        Etude - Tableaux in C Minor, Op.39 #1, 2 and 9

        selected Preludes

   Ravel, Maurice

        "Jeux d'Eau"

        "Oiseaux Tristes"

   Respighi, Ottorio

        "Three Preludes on Gregorian Melodies"

   Rzewski, Frederic

        "Dust" (U.S. premiered by Blair McMillen)

   Scarlatti, Domenico

        selected Sonatas

   Scelsi, Giacinto

        Sonata No. 2

        "Five Incantations"

        "Un Adieu"  (U.S. premiered by Blair McMillen)

        "Action Music"

        Suite No.10 "Ka"

   Schönberg, Arnold

        3 Klavierstücke, Op.11

        6 Kleine Klavierstücke, Op.19

   Schubert, Franz

        4 Impromptus, Op.90 D.899           

   Schwartz, Elliott

        "Four Maine Haiku"

   Scriabin, Alexander

        Sonata No.2, Op.19 ("Sonata-Fantasy")

        Sonata No.9, Op.68 ("Black Mass")

        Etude in C# Minor, Op.2 #1

        Etude in D# Minor, Op.8 #12

        Prelude for the Left Hand, Op.9 #1

        Five Preludes, Op.74

   Shostakovich, Dmitri

        Four Preludes, Op.34

   Silverman, Adam

        "Those Mean Reds"

                (premiered by Blair McMillen)

   Stravinsky, Igor

        "Piano Rag Music"

        "Tango"

        "Circus Polka"

   Stroppa, Marco

        "Passacaglia Canonica" from "Miniature Estrose"

   Stucky, Steven

        "Album Leaves"

   Szymanowski, Karol

        Prelude in Bb Minor, Op.4 #3

        "Masques," 3 pieces for piano

   Tan, Su Lian

        "Invocation from Orfeo in Asia"

               (written for and premiered by Blair McMillen)

   Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilich

        Variations in F Major, Op.19 #6

   Tower, Joan

        "Vast Antique Cubes/Throbbing Still"

   Waller, Fats

        "All that Meat and no Potatoes"

        "Sunday"

        "Swingin' down the Lane"

   White, Barbara

        "Reliquary"

   Wuorinen, Charles

        "The Blue Bamboula"

 

Bach, Johann Sebastian

        Concerto in D Minor

 

Barber, Samuel

        Concerto, Op. 38

 

Bartok, Bela

        Concerto No. 1

 

Beethoven, Ludwig van 

       Concerto No. 1 in C Major
       Concerto No. 2 in Bb Major 
       Concerto No. 5 ("Emperor")

 

Carter, Elliott

       Double Concerto

       (for Harpsichord and Piano

        with 2 Chamber orchestras-piano part)

 

Chausson, Ernest

       Concerto (arr. Jon Magnussen)

 

Chopin, Frderic

       Concerto No. 2 in F Minor

 

Franck, Cesar

       Symphonic Variations

 

Gershwin, George

       Rhapsody in Blue

 

Grieg, Edvard

       Concerto in D Major

 

Haydn, Franz Josef

       Concerto in D Major

 

Hyla, Lee

       Concerto No. 2

 

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

       Concerto No. 17 in G Major
       Concerto No. 23 in A Major

 

Rubinstein, Anton

       Concerto No. 4

 

Saint-Saens, Camille

       Concerto No. 2 in G Minor

 

Shostakovich, Dmitri

       Concerto No. 1
       Concerto No. 2

 

Stravinsky, Igor

       Movements