The New Essential Companion. 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 Metamorphoses” markedly slower than in the score. 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.'/ Recueil / Flûte Traversière

- J. S. Bach: Arioso (Largo from Concerto for 36 Repertoire Pieces with Piano Accompaniment Flute and Piano editor: Peck, Donald Harpsichord and String Orchestra) - Siciliano (from Sonata No. 2 in E-flat Major) - L. v. Beethoven: Minuet - Serenade - G. Bizet: Minuet (from L'Arlésienne) - Entr'acte (from Carmen) - C. Bohm: Calm as the Night (Still wie die Nacht) - J. Brahms: Waltz - A. Caplet: Petite Valse - Reverie - A. Corelli: Guige - C. Debussy: Reverie - J. Donjon: Adagio Nobile - Pan! (Pastorale for Flute) - G. Fauré: Berceuse - Sicilienne (from Pelléas et Melisande) - C. W. Gluck: Minuet and Dance of the Blessed Spirits (from Orfeo) - B. Godard: Allegretto - F. J. Gossec: Gavotte - Tambourin - C. Gounod: Meditation (sur le 1er Prélude de Bach) - G. F. Handel: Bourrée - Giga (from Sonata in F Major) - F. J. Haydn: Serenade (Andante Cantabile from String Quartet No. 8) - B. Barcello: Sonata in F Major - W. A. Mozart: Adagio (from Flute Quartet) - S. Rachmaninoff: Vocalise - C. Saint-Saens: Pavane - The Swan (Le Cygne from Carnival of the Animals) - E. Satie: Gymnopédie No. 2 (from Trois Gymnopédies) - F. Schubert: Musical Moment (from 6 Moment musicaux) - Trockne Blumen (Ihr Blümlein alle) from Die schöne Müllerin (Introduction, Thema and Variation) - R. Schumann: Romance - Träumerei (from Scenes from Childhood/Kinderszenen) - P. I. Tchaikovsky: June (Barcalolle from The Seasons) - G. P. Telemann: Minuet (from Suite in A minor)