Opera Integrale da Camera (chamber music) Mariana Sirbu, Ruxandra Colan, Mihai Dancila, strings Mihail Sarbu, John Buttrick, pianos Quartetto Academica (Bucharest) Quintetto in fa minore per pianoforte ed archi Published 1980, 5 LPs.
(unpublished) Frédéric Chopin
Polonaise-Fantaisie, Opus 61 and three other works Walpole Town Hall, New Hampshire March 16, 1979, Vermont Public Radio; audio tape, GBH Boston and Library of Congress.
(unpublished) Mozart, Schumann, Debussy, Beethoven
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sonata in B-flat major, K. 454 Robert Schumann - Sonata in A minor, Op. 105 Claude Debussy - Sonata in G major (1917) Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata in C minor, Op. 30, No. 2 Roman Totenberg, violin John Buttrick, piano October 7, 1976.
(unpublished) Mozart, Ravel, Debussy, Beethoven
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sonata in B-flat, K. 454 Maurice Ravel - Sonate posthume pour piano et violon Claude Debussy - Sonata Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata in G major, Op. 96 Roman Totenberg, violin John Buttrick, piano December 4, 1975.
Johannes Brahms - Sonata No. 1, Op. 78 I. Vivace, ma non troppo, II. Adagio, III. Allegro molto moderato
Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata #7 in C minor, Op. 30 No. 2 I. Allegro con brio 0:00, II. Adagio cantabile 8:08, III. Scherzo: Allegro 17:45, IV. Finale: Allegro, Presto 21:00
Abraham Comfort, violin John Buttrick, piano July 19, 1974, tape made by B. Meredith (the 19th according to the note on the tape)
(unpublished) Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto No. 5 in E-flat for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 73 (“Emperor”) John Buttrick, piano Carnegie Hall, New York, April 19, 1971 I. Allegro, II. Adagio un poco mosso 20:00, III. Rondo-Allegro 27:22 (Two months later – June 6, 1971 – Mr. Buttrick was the soloist in a performance at Boston’s Symphony Hall, Arthur Fiedler conducting, but I don’t know of a recording.)
Maurice Revel, Franz Schubert, Maurice Duruflé, C.P.E. Bach
Louis Moyse Plays, vol. 5. Flautist, accompanied by various musicians including John Buttrick: Ravel - Chansons Madacasses Schubert - Introduction and Variations on an Original Theme (Trockne Blumen), Opus 60 Duruflé - Prelude, Reciatif et Variations, Opus 3 C.P.E. Bach - Trio in G Major Brattleboro Music Center, Green Street School Auditorium, Brattleboro, Vermont, March 8, 1970.
(unpublished) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto #10 in E-flat for Two Pianos and Orchestra, K. 365 John Buttrick, Robert Freeman, pianos Carnegie Hall, New York, April 17, 1969 mp4 (tape glitch about 22:40) – I. Allegro, II. Andante 10:04, III. Rondo-Allegro 17:48 May 10, 1969 mp4 – I. Allegro, II. Andante 10:12, III. Rondo-Allegro 18:29
Fredric Chopin – Six Mazurkas Arnold Schoenberg – Six little piano pieces, Op. 19 Ludwig van Beethoven – Six bagatelles, Op 126 Franz Schubert – Sonata in B flat major January 7, 1966.
Note: Jecklin (JD) published the Max Reger Intermezzi in two versions, an LP with catalogue number JD 601 and a CD with catalogue number JD 601-2. There may be an LP for the other JDs as well.
The above are but a small fraction of the pieces Mr. Buttrick has performed in public. Notably absent are Chopin’s Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 and Liszt’s St. Francis Walking on the Waves.
Informal recordings ...
(rehearsal) Beethoven
Sonata 32 in C minor, Op. 111: fragment First Congregational Church, Nantucket, Massachusetts, September 2018.
(rehearsal) Liszt?
fragment First Congregational Church, Nantucket, Massachusetts, August 2018.
(rehearsal) Beethoven
Sonata 21 in C Major, Op. 53 (“Waldstein”): I. Allegro con brio First Congregational Church, Nantucket, Massachusetts, July 2017.
(from a lecture) Chopin
Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52: beginning Jecklin Musikhaus, Zürich, March 2015.