Flute Audition, The

The Flute Audition: The New Essential Companion
(Probespielstellen für Flöte : Das neue umfassende Kompendium)
Edited by Henrik Wiese
Published by Universal Editions

Henrik Wiese, the internationally renowned orchestral and solo flautist, has spent four years compiling what promises to be the definitive guide to audition repertoire for students preparing for a seat in a professional orchestra. He has worked with his own students in Salzburg as they engaged in auditions, as well as with other professional players and his teaching colleagues at the conservatorium. He sourced repertoire lists from job advertisements past and present and referred to other audition lists such as those of Baxtresser and Wye. Considerable research has gone into the differences between existing editions of the chosen pieces even, surprisingly, from twentieth century composers such as Prokofiev and Stravinsky. The Flute Audition then looks at practical matters such as page turns and metronome markings. Wiese comments, for example, that Hindemith’s own recording takes a passage from Symphonic Metamorphosesmarkedly slower than in the score.  Many of the excerpts also include 2nd or 3rd flute parts. Presented in order alphabetically by composer, the excerpts are also listed in chronological order, spanning 240 years. The result of all this painstaking research is the most comprehensive collection of international audition pieces yet published in a single volume.

This is an excellent collection of orchestral excerpts for the next generation of young musicians. You can use it to prepare for auditions anywhere in the world. Whether it’s for an opera house, symphony or chamber orchestra, everything you need is here. – Emmanuel Pahud

Contents:
No.         — Work
1-2         — J.S. Bach: Mass in b minor
3            — J.S. Bach: Magnificat in D major
4-5         — J.S. Bach: St Matthew Passion
6-9         — B. Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra SZ 116
10          — L.v. Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 ‘Eroica’
11-12     — L.v. Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
13-15     — L.v. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
16-17     — L.v. Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 ‘Pastorale’
18          — L.v. Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
19-23     — L.v. Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3
24          — V. Bellini: Norma
25          — H. Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini Overture
26-27     — H. Berlioz: La damnation de Faust
28-29     — H. Berlioz: L’Enfance du Christ
30-31     — H. Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
32-33     — G. Bizet: Carmen
34-35     — G. Bizet: L’Arlesienne Suite No. 1
36          — G. Bizet: L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2
37-38     — J. Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
39          — J. Brahms: Symphony No. 1
40-41     — J. Brahms: Symphony No. 4
42          — B. Britten: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
43-44     — B. Britten: Four Sea Interludes
45-47     — C. Debussy: Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune
48-50     — C. Debussy: La Mer
51          — L. Delibes: Coppelia
52          — A. Dvorak: Symphony No. 8
53-56     — A. Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 ‘From the New World’
57          — Chr. W. Gluck: Orphee et Euridice
58          — J. Haydn: Die Schopfung
59-60     — P. Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis
61-65     — G. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
66          — G. Mahler: Symphony No. 9
67-68     — F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Ein Sommernachtstraum
69-71     — F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Symphony No. 4 ‘Italian’
72          — W.A. Mozart: Don Giovanni
73-75     — W.A. Mozart: Die Zauberflote
76-77     — C. Nielsen: Maskarade
78-80     — W. Piston: The Incredible Flutist Suite
81-82     — A. Ponchielli: La Gioconda
83-87     — S. Prokofiev: Symphonie classique
88-94     — S. Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
95-98     — M. Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2
99          — M. Ravel: Ma mere l’Oye
100        — M. Ravel: Sheherazade
101        — M. Ravel: Bolero
102-104 — M. Ravel: Alborada del gracioso
105-106 — E.N.v. Reznicek: Donna Diana Overture
107-108 — N. Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol
109-112 — N. Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade
113-114 — N. Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture
115-116 — G. Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
117        — G. Rossini: La gazza ladra Overture
118        — G. Rossini: Guillaume Tell Overture
119        — G. Rossini: Il viaggio a Reims
120        — C. Saint-Saens: Le carnaval des animaux
121-124 — R. Schumann: Symphony No. 1 ‘Spring’
125-128 — D. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
129-130 — D. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 ‘Leningrad’
131-132 — D. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15
133-139 — B. Smetana: The bartered bride Overture
140        — B. Smetana: Vltava – The Moldau
141        — R. Strauss: Don Juan
142-144 — R. Strauss: Salome
145        — R. Strauss: Symphonia Domestica
146-148 — R. Strauss: Tod und Verklarung
149-153 — R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
154-156 — R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
157        — R. Strauss: Der Burger als Edelmann Suite
158-160 — I. Stravinsky: Chant du Rossignol
161-162 — I. Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks – Concerto in E-flat
163        — I. Stravinsky: L’Oiseau de Feu Suite (1919)
164        — I. Stravinsky: L’Oiseau de Feu Suite (1945)
165        — I. Stravinsky: Jeu de Cartes
166-167 — I. Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
168-171 — I. Stravinsky: Petrouchka (1947)
172        — P.I. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
173        — P.I. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
174-175 — P.I. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
176        — P.I. Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty
177-180 — P.I. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
181-184 — A. Thomas: Mignon Overture
185-186 — G. Verdi: Rigoletto
187-190 — G. Verdi: Aida
191-192 — G. Verdi: Requiem
193-194 — R. Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
195-196 — R. Wagner: Die Gotterdammerung