Description

A practical and easily accessible edition of suitable test pieces for Orchestral auditions. Here are more than 70 excerpts from the Operatic and Concert repertoire for Flute or Piccolo, compiled and edited by Christoph Durchen and Siegfried Kratsch.

This collection of excerpts from the operatic and concert repertoire is indispensable for the serious flutist.

Piccolo excerpts include:

Beethoven - Symphony No 9
Bizet - Carmen
Delibes - Coppelia
Henze - Nachtstucke und Arien
Hindemith - Nobilissima Visione
Janacek - Sinfonietta
Mozart - Magic Flute
Orff - Die Kluge
Ravel - Piano Concerto in G major, Ma Mere L'Oye, Rapsodie espagnole, Daphnis & Chloe (2nd Suite)
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
Rossini - Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Semiramide, La Gazza Ladra, La Scala di seta
Shostakovich - Symphony No 9
Smetana - The Bartered Bride
Johann Strauss - Die Fledermaus
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No 4
Verdi - Il Trovatore, Otello, Falstaff
Wagner - Das Rheingold, Die Walkure

Flute excerpts include:

Bach - St. Matthew Passion
Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra
Beethoven - Symphony No. 3, Overture: Leonore No 3
Bizet - L'Arlesienne Suite No 2, Carmen
Brahms - Symphonies 1 & 4
Busoni - Dr Faust
Debussy - Prelude a l'apres midi d'un faune
Delibes - Coppelia
Dvorak - Symphonies 8 & 9
Gluck - Orfeo ed Euridice
Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphosis
Kodaly - Dances from Galanta
Mahler - Symphony No 9
Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night's Dream
Mozart - Magic Flute, Don Giovanni
Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf
Ravel - Bolero, Daphnis & Chloe (2nd Suite)
Reznicek - Donna Diana
Rossini - Guillaume Tell, Il Barbiere di Sivigla, La Gazza Ladra
Saint-Saens - Carnival of the Animals
Schumann - Symphony No 1
Smetana - The Bartered Bride
Richard Strauss - Till Eulenspiegel, Tod und Verklarung, Domestica, Salome, Josephs Legend, Der Rosenkavalier
Stravinsky - Jeu de cartes, Petroushka, Dumbarton Oaks
Thomas - Mignon
Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake
Verdi - Aida, Rigoletto, Falstaff
Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Gotterdammerung