Piano Concerto choices help!

[Jaydee]

Hi everyone,

I need to choose a piano concerto to perform with a school orchestra, which will be performed in approx 4 months time.  I am struggling to find a concerto that does not have a difficult orchestral part, as it is to be performed with a school orchestra.

Any ideas?
So far, the rach 2 mvt 1 has a relatively easy orchestral part, but the piano part is quite hard.  Does anyone know any concerto movements that are approx less than 10 min, which aren't classical/baroque?

Thanks!

Jaydee

[Ludwig Van Rachabji]

Perhaps the Grieg? The orchestra part doesn't seem too difficult to me.

[rachlisztchopin]

yea i was thinking the same thing...thats what im learning right now

[abe]

saint-seans no. 2 mvmt 1, very easy orchestra part, not too difficult piano part, at least not as hard as rach 2 (or am i wrong? i've never played it)

[johnjwong]

grieg 1st concerto is good not so hard sounds good

[Ludwig Van Rachabji]

saint-seans no. 2 mvmt 1, very easy orchestra part, not too difficult piano part, at least not as hard as rach 2 (or am i wrong? i've never played it)

Yes, the Saint-Saens could be good. It really is nowhere close to the difficulty of Rach 2, and the orchestra part seems fairly easy.

[Ludwig Van Rachabji]

grieg 1st concerto is good not so hard sounds good

By the way, Grieg only wrote one concerto.

[Anton]

Why not try the Schostakovich concerto nr 2 the first movement is great
infact the whole concerto is cool

[anda]

chopin - any of them. in both cases, the orchestral part is very simple.

also, schumann - the a moll concert, or you could try one of the klavierstucke (and you'd get to play the whole work too!)

[SteinwayTony]

If you only have four months to prepare, you need an easy concerto.  Rachmaninoff and Prokofieff are, in my humble opinion, out of the question.

Beethoven (with the exception of numbers 4 and 5) concertos are a possibility, though they are heavily orchestrated.

Chopin's concertos are notorious for being "all piano, no orchestra," which is why the world-class orchestras cringe at the thought of them, but they make up for it in the piano parts, which in the first movements can be note-heavy and quite awkward.

If it were me, I'd pick either Grieg or Schumann.  They are straightforward and definitely crowd favorites (of course millions of people now know the opening theme of the Grieg...thank you, Nike and Yundi Li) and it's not too difficult in either the orchestra or piano.

[missmarple]

Of course millions of people now know the opening theme of the Grieg...thank you, Nike and Yundi Li.

You forgot Maksim!

P.S. Sorry, couldn't resist.

[BoliverAllmon]

bach dmin concerto