Orchestral Pianist Repertoires

[acpiano]

Can anyone please suggest some essential repertoires for orchestral pianists? Thanks! 

[mikey6]

Petrouchka would probably be on top of the list.

[retrouvailles]

Shostakovich 1st symphony has a good piano part also. Maybe even the 5th symphony. Or possibly even Prokofiev's 2nd and 5th symphonies. That's all that comes to mind.

[mikey6]

Pines of Rome
https://www.orchestralibrary.com/reftables/audrep.html

[quantum]

Carmina Burana

[Petter]

I remember hearing a Saint Saens piece that included piano and organ. Maybe it was a symphony?

[communist]

Gayane by Khachaturian

[healdie]

I remember hearing a Saint Saens piece that included piano and organ. Maybe it was a symphony?

I think its the 3rd Symphony (organ)

[astroboy]

probably not essential, but also the following:

rachmaninoff - symphonic dances
khachaturian - spartacus suite (no. 2 i think?)
kabalevsky - clown suite (i think thats the title)
barber - violin concerto
holst - neptune from the planets (this one is for celeste, but usually orchestral pianists double on celeste)

[richard black]

I've done lots of orchestral piano. Just about the only one that really needs learning is Petrouchka, but there are reasonably substantial piano parts in plenty of other 20th century works, including Shostakovich 5, Rachmaninov 3 (symphony 3!), Copland 'Appalachian Spring' (actually the piano part in that is pretty tricky), Prokofiev 'Romeo and Juliet' and a few others. Some orch. piano parts are comically tiny, e.g. Shostakovich violin concerto (OK, this one's celesta), where you play for about 2 minutes maximum.

[mikey6]

Some orch. piano parts are comically tiny, e.g. Shostakovich violin concerto (OK, this one's celesta), where you play for about 2 minutes maximum.

I quite like the Celesta part in Shosta's Tea for two arragement - you play about 4 bars in all, yet  noone else does - a complete celeste solo!

[retrouvailles]

Another great piano part is the one in Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta. I quite like that one, especially in the second movement.