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Great Flute Duos from the Orchestral Repertoire
Great Flute Duos from the Orchestral Repertoire
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Baxtresser Great Flute Duos from the Orchestral Repertoire is aimed at aspiring orchestral flautists, focusing upon the challenges of first, second and alto flute parts.
Excerpts for Principal, Second and Alto Flute Auditions
Publisher – Theodore Presser
Compiled and annotated by Jeanne Baxtresser (Former Principal Flautist of the New York Philharmonic)
Second flute commentaries by Renee Siebert (Former Second Flautist of the New York Philharmonic)
Alto Flute commentaries by David Cramer (Associate Principal Flautist of the Philadelphia Orchestra)
Jeanne Baxtresser has compiled a book of the most popular audition pieces and beautiful duets in the orchestral repertoire for Great Flute Duos. Each excerpt comes with Baxtresser’s performance notes and also advice.
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Excerpts
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Cantata No. 208
“Was Mir Behagt”: Sheep May Safely Graze
Magnificat: Esurientes Impelerit Bonos
Mass in B minor: Kyrie eleison
Qui Tollis
The Passion According to St. Matthew: Du lieber Heiland du Buß und Reu, So ist mein Jesus nun gefangen, Andante
Bartók, Béla
Concerto for Orchestra
Berlioz, Hector
L’Enfance du Christ: Trio for 2 Flutes and also Harp
Bizet, Georges
Carmen: No. 11
Danse Bohème
l’Arlesienne Suite No. 1: No. 2, Minuetto, No. 4, Carillon
Brahms, Johannes
Symphony No. 1 in C minor
Symphony No. 2 in D Major
Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn (Variation 3, Variation 5)
Britten, Benjamin
The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra: Variation A
Debussy, Claude
Prélude a l’apres-midi d’un faune
Dvorák, Antonín
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, “From the New World”
Holst, Gustav
The Planets (Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age, Neptune, the Mystic)
Mendelssohn, Felix
Incidental Music to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Notturno
Symphony No. 4 in A Major, “Italian”
Prokofiev, Sergei
Symphony No. 1 in D Major, “Classical”
Ravel, Maurice
Alborada del Gracioso
Daphnis et Chloe
Suite No. 2
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Forlane
Rigaudon
Ma Mère l’Oye
Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolai
Scheherazade: Mvt. II, Mvt. III, Mvt. IV
Shostakovitch, Dmitri
Symphony No. 5, Mvt. III
Symphony No. 10, Mvt. II, Mvt. IV
Symphony No. 13, “Babi Yar”, Mvt. V
Smetana, Bedrich
The Moldau
Strauss, Richard
Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Stravinsky, Igor
The Rite of Spring
Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Mvt. I, Mvt. III
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Mvt. III, Mvt. IV
Suite No. 3, Mvt. IV, Var. 1, Var. 3
Verdi, Giuseppi
Rigoletto “Caro nome”
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