Piano Solo Repertoire

Mark Knoop performs a wide variety of music as a solo pianist, chamber musician and conductor. A selection of this repertoire is listed: choose a category above to browse, or search the database using the form below.

Also included here is information on two large-scale projects: The History of Photography in Sound, by Michael Finnissy (external link); and Phase Portraits, by Chris Dench (external link).

Peter Ablinger Morton Feldman 5
Peter Ablinger Carmen Baliero 4
Peter Ablinger Marcel Duchamp 5
Peter Ablinger Amaunalik 2010*7
Peter Ablinger Hanna Schygulla 3
Peter Ablinger 6 Linien 20046
Peter Ablinger Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude Stein from Voices and Piano 1998-¿10
Peter Ablinger Voices and Piano (selection) 1998-*
Peter Ablinger Agnes Gonxha Bojaxiu, Mao Tse-Tung from Voices and Piano 1998-15
Peter Ablinger Agnes Gonxha Bojaxiu 2
Peter Ablinger Akkordeon und Rauschen 1997-996
Peter Ablinger Gjendine Slålien *3
Peter Ablinger Billie Holiday 4
Peter Ablinger Bonnie Barnett 3
Gabriel Armstrong Between the Bare Branches 1995*
Newton Armstrong Too Slow, for Milton 2011*3
Newton Armstrong new work 2011*25
Newton Armstrong Three Windows 2009-10*12
Robert Ashley Maneuvers for Small Hands 1961*
Johann Sebastian Bach The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2 (24 Preludes & Fugues) BWV 870-893 1738-42
Johann Sebastian Bach The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 (24 Preludes & Fugues) BWV 846-869 1722
Johann Sebastian Bach Italienisches Konzert BWV 971 1735
Johann Sebastian Bach Goldberg Variationen BWV 988 1741
Johann Sebastian Bach Französische Ouverture BWV 831 1735
Don Banks Pezzo Dramatico 19565
Richard Barrett The light gleams an instant (from Tract) 1984-96$3
Richard Barrett Tract 1984-96†25
Richard Barrett Lost 2004¿5
Richard Beaudoin Étude d’un prélude 2009-10*25
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 1 F minor opus 2/1 1796
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 2 A major opus 2/2 1796
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 3 C major opus 2/3 1796
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 4 E flat major opus 7 1797
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 5 C minor opus 10/1 1798
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 7 D major opus 10/3 1798
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 8 C minor “Pathetique” opus 13 1799
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 9 E major opus 14/1 1799
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 10 G major opus 14/2 1799
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 12 A flat major opus 26 1801
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 14 C sharp minor “Moonlight” opus 27/2 1801
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 15 D major opus 28 1801
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 16 G major opus 31/1 1802
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 17 D minor “Tempest” opus 31/2 1802
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 18 E flat major opus 31/3 1802
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 19 G minor opus 49/1 1792
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 20 G major opus 49/2 1792
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 21 C major “Waldstein” opus 53 1803
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 22 F major opus 54 1804
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 23 F minor “Appassionata” opus 57 1805
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 24 F sharp major opus 78 1809
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 27 E minor opus 90 1814
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 28 A major opus 101 1816
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 29 B flat major “Hammerklavier” opus 106 1818
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 30 E major opus 109 182218
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 31 A flat major opus 110 1822
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No 32 C minor opus 111 1822
Ludwig van Beethoven 32 Variations for Piano C minor WoO 80
Ludwig van Beethoven Seven Bagatelles for Piano opus 33 1802
Ludwig van Beethoven Eleven new Bagatelles for Piano opus 119 1822
Ludwig van Beethoven Six Bagatelles for Piano opus 126 1824
Ludwig van Beethoven Thirty-three variations for Piano on a waltz by Diabelli, C major opus 120 1823
Ludwig van Beethoven Two Preludes through all twelve major keys for Piano opus 39 1789
Alban Berg Sonate opus 1 190812
Massimo Botter L’orecchio di Dioniso 200610
Pierre Boulez Deuxieme Sonate 194830
Pierre Boulez Premiere Sonate 19469
Pierre Boulez Troisième Sonate : formant 2 — trope 1955-57 / 6310
Pierre Boulez Douze Notations 1945, rev 198510
Johannes Brahms Hungarian Dances (selected) 1869
Johannes Brahms Zwei Rhapsodien opus 79
Johannes Brahms Drei Intermezzi opus 117 1892
Johannes Brahms Sechs Klavierstücke opus 118 189320
Johannes Brahms Vier Klavierstücke opus 119 1893
Willy Burkhard Klaviersonate opus 66
Diana Burrell One-man band 2007*10
John Cage Etudes Boreales for piano solo 197818
John Cage Suite for Toy Piano 194810
John Cage Sonatas and Interludes 1946-4870
Elliott Carter Piano Sonata 1945-4626
Elliott Carter 90+ 19945
Unsuk Chin Piano Etude No 6 (Grains) 20003
Frédéric Chopin Ballade No 1 in G minor opus 23 1835-368
Frédéric Chopin Fantasie-Impromptu opus 66
René Clair Entr’acte 192419
Aldo Clementi B.A.C.H. 19706
Aldo Clementi Blues (Fantasie su Frammenti di Thelonius Monk) 20015
Laurence Crane Favourite Chord 19926
Adam de la Cour Nursery Rhyme miniatures 2006*10
Adam de la Cour Neun und Neunzig - Complete Method 2010*10
Adam de la Cour Beat Me 2007*5
Odaline de la Martinez Color Studies for Piano 197814
Claude Debussy Suite bergamasque 1890
Claude Debussy Suite: pour le piano 1894
Claude Debussy Estampes 1903
Claude Debussy L’isle joyeuse 1904
Claude Debussy Images Set 1 1905
Claude Debussy Children’s Corner Suite 1906
Claude Debussy Images Set 2 1907
Claude Debussy Preludes Book 1 1909-10
Claude Debussy Preludes Book 2 1912
Claude Debussy Études 1915
Chris Dench heretical bagatelles: KS 2009*4
Chris Dench Topologies 1979-80†11
Chris Dench Phase Portraits [more info...] 1973-2003©75
Chris Dench zero-knowledge protocols [more info...] 1973/2003*3
Chris Dench helical [more info...] 1975/19933
Chris Dench E-330 plays [more info...] 1976/2003*2
Chris Dench dancing qualia [more info...] 1978/2003*2
Chris Dench tiento de medio registro alto [more info...] 1978/2003*2
Chris Dench tenebroso [more info...] 1978/2003*2
Chris Dench Pas Seul I: reading Takahashi [more info...] 1979/19933
Chris Dench Pas Seul II: vectorial [more info...] 1979/19933
Chris Dench Pas Seul III: rushes [more info...] 1979/1996†7
Chris Dench into the wormworks [more info...] 1984/1995*6
Chris Dench esperance [more info...] 19863
Chris Dench heretical bagatelles Books 1 & 2 [more info...] 1992/2002*8
Chris Dench mem(e) [more info...] 1997/20035
Chris Dench the heart’s algorithms [more info...] 1993/1999/2002*15
Chris Dench ik(s)lands fragment [more info...] 1997/1998*2
Andrew Digby evaporation 20026
Henri Dutilleux Piano Sonata 194822
Gabriel Erkoreka Dos Zortzikos 200010
Morton Feldman Extensions 3 19527
Morton Feldman For Bunita Marcus 198570
Morton Feldman Intermission 5 19524
Brian Ferneyhough Opus Contra Naturam - A Shadow Play for Speaking Pianist 2000†13
Michael Finnissy Choralvorspiele (Koralforspill) 2012*40
Michael Finnissy Yvaroperas 1 and 2 1994
Michael Finnissy English Country-Tunes 1977/1982-8550
Michael Finnissy Freightrain Bruise 1972/80†
Michael Finnissy Walrus 2010*7
Michael Finnissy Tangos
Michael Finnissy Kemp’s Morris 1978†
Michael Finnissy Folklore I 199212
Michael Finnissy Folklore III 1993-9420
Michael Finnissy The History of Photography in Sound [more info...] 1997-2000†600
Michael Finnissy Le démon de l’analogie [more info...] 2000†22
Michael Finnissy Le réveil de l’intraitable réalité [more info...] 1999†22
Michael Finnissy North American Spirituals [more info...] 1997-98†20
Michael Finnissy My parents’ generation thought War meant something [more info...] 1999†36
Michael Finnissy Alkan - Paganini 1997†12
Michael Finnissy Seventeen Immortal Homosexual Poets [more info...] 1997†33
Michael Finnissy Eadweard Muybridge - Edvard Munch [more info...] 1997†22
Michael Finnissy Kapitalistisch Realisme (met Sizilianische Männerakte en Bachsche Nachdichtungen) [more info...] 1999-2000†70
Michael Finnissy Wachtend op de volgende uitbarsting van repressie en censuur [more info...] 2000, 2002‡13
Michael Finnissy Unsere Afrikareise [more info...] 1998†28
Michael Finnissy Etched bright with sunlight [more info...] 1999-2000†29
Michael Finnissy Gershwin Arrangements - How long has this been going on? 1975-884
Michael Finnissy Gershwin Arrangements - A foggy day in London town 1975-883
Michael Finnissy Gershwin Arrangements - They can’t take that away from me 1975-884
Michael Finnissy Gershwin Arrangements - They’re writing songs of love, but not for me 1975-884
Michael Finnissy Gershwin Arrangements - Embraceable you 1975-884
Fujiwara Metamorphosis IV
George Gershwin Three Preludes 1926
Percy Aldridge Grainger various works for piano solo
Percy Aldridge Grainger Shepherd’s Hey: English Morris Dance Tune 1908-13
Percy Aldridge Grainger To A Nordic Princess: Bridal Song 1928
Bryn Harrison Quietly Rising 20083
Joseph Haydn various Piano Sonatas
David Helbich Der Mond ist unter anderem aufgegangen 2003-045
Charles Ives Piano Sonata Nr 2 ”Concord, Mass. 1840-1860” 1915, rev 191950
Charles Ives Piano Sonata Nr 1 1909-1935
Leos Janácek Sonata 1.X.1905 190616
Leos Janácek On an overgrown path
Leos Janácek In the Mists
Evan Johnson Dehiscences, Lullay (“Thou nost whider it whil turne”) 20058
Tom Johnson Same or Different 200415
Sven-Ingo Koch Birkenwand mit Dalmatinern 1996
Brian Chatpo Koo The Picture of Li-Po Reciting Poetry 9
Johannes Kreidler Klavierstück 5 200512
György Kurtág Játékok (selections)
Helmut Lachenmann Ein Kinderspiel 198017
Helmut Lachenmann Serynade 1998/2000
Helmut Lachenmann Guero 1970/88
Franz Liszt Annees de Pelerinage
Franz Liszt Trube Wolken, Preludio funebre
Franz Liszt Sonate h-moll
Alvin Lucier I am sitting in a room 1969‡15
Neil Luck Liebestod 2010*3
David Lumsdaine Kelly Ground 196620
David Lumsdaine Ruhe sanfte, sanfte Ruh’ 197418
David Lumsdaine Cambewarra 198021
David Lumsdaine Six Postcard Pieces 19945
Benjamin Marks La Chute 1998*10
Richard Meale Incredible Floridas 197133
Richard Meale Coruscations 19719
Olivier Messiaen Livre du Saint Sacrement (excerpts) 1984
Olivier Messiaen Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jesus 1944
Olivier Messiaen Preludes pour piano 1928-2934
Olivier Messiaen Catalogue d’oiseaux (excerpts) 1956-58
Olivier Messiaen Cantéyodjayâ 194812
Claudia Molitor Even So… 2010*10
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart various Piano Sonatas
Modest Mussorgsky Bilder einer Ausstellung
Chris Newman Air Fool Agony Face 2009*16
Luigi Nono .....sofferte onde serene... 197614
Paul Obermayer coil 2001§5
Enno Poppe Thema mit 840 Variationen 1993/977
Stefan Prins Piano Hero #2 2011*6
Stefan Prins Piano Hero #1 20119
Sergei Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 3 a minor opus 28 1907-17
Sergei Rachmaninov 10 Preludes opus 23 1903
Horatiu Radulescu Piano Sonata No 2 “being and non-being create each other” opus 82 199110
Horatiu Radulescu Piano Sonata No 5 ”settle your dust, this is the primal identity” 200312
Horatiu Radulescu Piano Sonata No 3 ”you will endure forever” 1992-9923
Maurice Ravel Jeux d’eau 1901
Maurice Ravel Miroirs 1904
Maurice Ravel Sonatine 1905
Maurice Ravel Gaspard de la nuit 1908
Maurice Ravel Valses Nobles et Sentimentales 1911
Maurice Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin 1917
Maurice Ravel La valse 1921
Trond Reinholdtsen Faust, or The Decline of Western Music 2011*45
Damien Ricketson Porfyrius Shuffle 20068
Wolfgang Rihm Klavierstück Nr 3 opus 8c 1971
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata ”The Cat’s Fugue”
Giacinto Scelsi Suite no 9 ”Ttai” 1953†35
Arnold Schoenberg Suite opus 25 1921-2314
Arnold Schoenberg Klavierstuck opus 33b 19313
Arnold Schoenberg Klavierstuck opus 33a 19313
Arnold Schoenberg Funf Klavierstucke opus 23 1920-2311
Franz Schubert Fantasy C major “Wandererfantasie” opus 15 D760 1822
Franz Schubert Piano Sonata c minor D958 1828
Franz Schubert Piano Sonata A major D959 1828
Franz Schubert Piano Sonata B flat major D960 1828
Robert Schumann Albumblätter (from Bunte Blätter opus 99) 9
Robert Schumann Drei Stücklein (from Bunte Blätter opus 99) 4
Robert Schumann Papillons opus 2 1832
Robert Schumann Carnaval opus 9 1834-35
Robert Schumann Fantasie C major opus 17 1836
Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke opus 111 1851
Charlotte Seither Gran passo 2006*10
Ian Shanahan Arc of Light 19934
Kunsu Shim 33 things 2007
Matthew Shlomowitz Popular Contexts 2010*30
Matthew Shlomowitz Thinking Remembering 1997*13
Alexander Skryabin Piano Sonata No 5 opus 53 1907
Alexander Skryabin Piano Sonata No 6 opus 62 1911
Alexander Skryabin Piano Sonata No 7 “White Mass” opus 64 1911
Alexander Skryabin Piano Sonata No 8 opus 66 1913
Alexander Skryabin Piano Sonata No 9 “Black Mass” opus 68 1913
Alexander Skryabin Piano Sonata No 10 opus 70 1913
Gerhard Stäbler Von Branntwein und Finsternissen 19922
Gerhard Stäbler Internet 1.9 199613
Johannes Maria Staud Bewegungen 19968
Karlheinz Stockhausen Klavierstücke I-IV Nr 2 1952-538
Karlheinz Stockhausen Klavierstück V Nr 4/1 19545
Karlheinz Stockhausen Klavierstück VIII Nr 4/4 1955
Karlheinz Stockhausen Klavierstück IX Nr 4/5 1955-6110
Karlheinz Stockhausen Klavierstück XI Nr 7 195614
Karol Szymanowski Four Études opus 4 1902
Øyvind Torvund Audio Guide 2009*7
Tsukamono Nocturne
Carl Vine Five Bagatelles 199410
Samuel Vriezen Toccata I 2000*
Rolf Wallin Concerning King 20073
Anton Webern Variationen für Klavier opus 27 19365
Paul Whitty de-coding skin 1995†
Christian Wolff Keyboard Miscellany (selection) 1988-1997
Iannis Xenakis à R. (Hommage à Ravel) 19873
Iannis Xenakis Mists 198012
Iannis Xenakis Evryali 197311
Iannis Xenakis Herma 196110
Adam Yee Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen 19986
Adam Yee Lot 19952
David Young Incisioni Rupestri 2004†9

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