The Flute Audition: The New Essential Companion

Pan - Journal of the British Flute Society

This review first appeared in Pan, the journal of the British Flute Society and is reproduced with permission. Join the BFS: membership starts from £25 a year.

Compiled by Henrik Wiese for his students at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, this single volume is a treasure trove of orchestral extracts for the flute. The chosen extracts are based on requirements for contemporary orchestral auditions, gathering data from a range of sources. Composers are listed in alphabetical order, making the book easy to navigate, and each extract is numbered. The extracts were also prepared with reference to the sources, with errors corrected and a practical range of metronome marks provided. Critical notes are provided for those interested in exploring the differences between editions, as well as a chronological list of extracts for contextual knowledge and suggestions for helpful alternative fingerings. The music is well presented, with carefully considered page turns, and the range of extracts provided makes this an ideal resource for students and amateur orchestral players keen to learn the repertoire, as well as for its intended purpose of audition preparation. While there are several books of orchestral extracts currently on the market, and this lacks the comprehensive approach of the two volumes of Wye (or the previously available nine volumes of Wummer), this is an excellent selection which is ideal for its purpose. Recommended.

Carla Rees

From the Publisher

Henrik Wiese, the internationally renowned orchestral and solo flautist, has spent four years composing the final book. He was working with his own students in Salzburg as they engaged in auditions, as well as with other professional players and his teaching colleagues at the conservatory. He sourced repertoire lists from job advertisements past and present to other auditing lists. Considerable research has also been made in the differences between existing editions of the well-known pieces, surprisingly, from twentieth century composers such as Prokofiev and Stravinsky. "The Flute Audition" then looks at practical matters as well as turns and metronome markings. He comments, for example, that Hindemith's own recording takes a passage from "Symphonic Metamorphoses" markedly slower than in the score. The result of this painstaking research is the most comprehensive collection of international audition pieces published in a single volume.

Winner in the Flute Methods category of the Newly Published Music Competition at the 2019 NFA.

Contents

• Bach Johann Sebastian: Domine Deus from "Mass in B minor"
• Bach Johann Sebastian: Benedictus from "Mass in B minor"
• Bach Johann Sebastian: Esurientes implevit bonis from "Magnificat"
• Bach Johann Sebastian: For love my Savior wants to die from "St. Matthew Passion"
• Bartók Béla: I. Introduzione from "Concerto for Orchestra"
• Bartók Béla: II. Giuoco delle coppie from "Concerto for Orchestra"
• Bartók Béla: IV. Intermezzo interrotto from "Concerto for Orchestra"
• Beethoven Ludwig van: 4th movement from Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"
• Beethoven Ludwig van: 2nd movement from Symphony No. 4
• Beethoven Ludwig van: 2nd movement from Symphony No. 5
• Beethoven Ludwig van: 2nd movement from Symphony No. 6 "Pastorale"
• Beethoven Ludwig van: 1st movement from Symphony No. 7
• Beethoven Ludwig van: Leonore Overture no. 3
• Bellini Vincenzo: Casta Diva from "Norma"
• Berlioz Hector: Overture from "Benvenuto Cellini"
• Berlioz Hector: Menuet of the Follet from "La damnation de Faust"
• Berlioz Hector: Trio from "L'Enfance du Christ"
• Berlioz Hector: I. Rêverie - Passions from "Symphonie fantastique"
• Bizet Georges: Chanson Bohème from "Carmen"
• Bizet Georges: Entr'acte from "Carmen"
• Bizet Georges: Minuetto from "L'Arlésienne-Suite No. 1"
• Bizet Georges: Carillon from "L'Arlésienne-Suite Nr. 1"
• Bizet Georges: Menuet from "L'Arlésienn-Suite Nr. 2"
• Brahms Johannes: Variation III from "Variations on a Theme by Haydn"
• Brahms Johannes: 4th movement from Symphony No. 1
• Brahms Johannes: 4th movement from Symphony No. 4
• Britten Benjamin: Variation A from "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra"
• Britten Benjamin: I. Dawn from "Four Sea Interludes"
• Britten Benjamin: II. Sunday Morning from "Four Sea Interludes"
• Debussy Claude: Prélude a l'après-midi d'un faune
• Debussy Claude: De l'aube à midi sur la mer from "a mer"
• Debussy Claude: Dialogue du vent et la mer from "La mer"
• Delibes Léo: Prélude from "Coppélia"
• Dvorák Antonín: 4th movement from Symphony No. 8
• Dvorák Antonín: 1st movement from Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
• Gluck Christoph Willibald: Ballet des Ombres heureuses from "Orphée et Euridice"
• Haydn Joseph: From rose clouds breaks out "The Creation"
• Hindemith Paul: Turandot, Scherzo from "Symphonic Metamorphosis"
• Mahler Gustav: VI. Farewell from "The Song of the Earth"
• Mahler Gustav: 1st movement from Symphony No. 9
• Mendelssohn Bartholdy Felix: Scherzo from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
• Mendelssohn Bartholdy: 2nd movement from Symphony No. 4 "Italian"
• Mendelssohn Bartholdy: 4th movement from Symphony No. 4 "Italian"
• Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus: Fin ch'han dal vino from "Don Giovanni"
• Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus: How strong is your magic from "The Magic Flute"
• Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus: Everything Feels Love's Joy from "The Magic Flute"
• Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus: We transformed by fire glitter "The Magic Flute"
• Nielsen Carl: Pantomime and dance from "Masquerade"
• Piston Walter: Dance of the Vendors from "The incredible Flutist"
• Piston Walter: Solo of the Flutist from "The incredible Flutist"
• Ponchielli Amilcare: Danza delle Ore - Le ore dell 'aurora from "La Gioconda"
• Ponchielli Amilcare: Danze delle Ore - Sortono le ore della notte from "La Gioconda"
• Prokofieff Sergei: 2nd movement from "Symphonie classique"
• Prokofieff Sergei: 4th movement from "Symphonie classique"
• Prokofieff Sergei: Peter and the wolf
• Ravel Maurice: Lever du jour from "Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2"
• Ravel Maurice: Pantomime from "Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2"
• Ravel Maurice: I. Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant from "Ma mère l'Oye"
• Ravel Maurice: II. La Flûte enchantée from "Shéhérazade"
• Ravel Maurice: Bolero
• Ravel Maurice: Alborada del Grazioso
• Reznicek Emil Nikolaus from: Ouverure from "Donna Diana"
• Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolai: IV. Scena e Canto gitano from "Capriccio espagnol"
• Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolaj: 3rd movement from "Sheherazade"
• Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolaj: 4th movement from "Sheherazade"
• Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolai: Russian Easter Festival Overture
• Rossini Gioachino: Largo al Factotum from "l Barbiere di Siviglia"
• Rossini Gioachino: Ouverture from "La gazza ladra"
• Rossini Gioachino: Ouverture from "Guillaume Tell"
• Rossini Gioachino: Invan strappar dal core from "Il viaggio a Reims"
• Saint-Saëns Camille: Volière from "Le carnaval des animaux"
• Schumann Robert: 1st movement from Symphony No. 1 "Spring Symphony"
• Schumann Robert: 4th movement from Symphony No. 1 "Spring Symphony"
• Shostakovich Dmitry: 1st movement from Symphony No. 5
• Shostakovich Dmitry: 2nd movement from Symphony No. 5
• Shostakovich Dmitry: 3rd movement from Symphony No. 5
• Shostakovich Dmitry: 3rd Movement from Symphony No. 7 "Leningrad"
• Shostakovich Dmitry: 1st movement from Symphony No. 15
• Smetana Bedrich: Ouverture from "the sold bride"
• Smetana Bedrich: Vltava - The Vltava
• Bouquet Richard: Don Juan
• Bouquet Richard: Salome
• Strauss Richard: Scherzo from "Symphnia Domestica"
• Strauss Richard: Death and Transfiguration
• Strauss Richard: Till Eulenspiegel's funny pranks
• Strauss Richard: Act 1, cadenza of the flute player from "Der Rosenkavalier"
• Strauss Richard: The Hairdresser's Consternation from "Der Rosenkavalier"
• Strauss Richard: Act 3, Introduction from "Der Rosenkavalier"
• Strauss Richard: II. Minuet from "Der Bürger als Edelmann"
• Stravinsky Igor: Chant du Rossignol
• Stravinsky Igor: 2nd movement from "Dumbarton Oaks"
• Stravinsky Igor: Variation de l'oiseau de feu from "L'oiseau de Feu"
• Stravinsky Igor: Variations (Firebird) from L'Oiseau de Feu "
• Stravinsky Igor: Jeu des Cartes
• Stravinsky Igor: 2nd movement from "Symphony in Three Movements"
• Stravinsky Igor: The Shrove-tide Fair from "Petrushka"
• Stravinsky Igor: The Magic Trick, The Magician Plays the Flute from "Petrushka"
• Stravinsky Igor: Petrushka's Room from "Petrushka"
• Tchaikovsky Peter Ilyich: Pas de Six, Variation 1 from "Schwanense"
• Tchaikovsky Peter Ilyich: 2nd movement from Piano Concerto No. 1
• Tchaikovsky Peter Ilyich: 3rd Movement from Symphony No. 4
• Tchaikovsky Peter Ilyich: 4th movement from Symphony No. 4
• Tchaikovsky Peter Ilyich: Pas de quatre from "Sleeping Beauty"
• Tchaikovsky Peter Ilyich: Overture from "The Nutcracker"
• Tchaikovsky Peter Ilyich: Petit Galop from "The Nutcracker"
• Tchaikovsky Peter Ilyich: Le Thé (danse chinoise) from "The Nutcracker"
• Tchaikovsky Peter Ilyich: Mirlitons from "The Nutcracker"
• Thomas Ambroise: Overture from "Mognon"
• Verdi Giuseppe: Caro nome from "Rigoletto"
• Verdi Giuseppe: Danza Sacra delle Sacerdotesse from "Aida"
• Verdi Giuseppe: Introduction to the third act from "Aida"
• Verdi Giuseppe: Ballabile from "Aida"
• Verdi Giuseppe: Agnus Dei from "Requiem"
• Verdi Giuseppe: Lux aeterna from "Requiem"
• Wagner Richard: Act II, Scene 7 from "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"
• Wagner Richard: Act 1, Scene 3 from "Die Götterdämmerung"
• Wagner Richard: 3rd nude, Scene 3 from "The Twilight of the Gods"

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• Part 1: Flute