Theodore Presser

Composers: Gioacchino Rossini, Maurice Ravel, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Camille Saint-Saens, Sergei Prokofieff, Felix Mendelssohn, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Paul Hindemith, Richard Strauss, Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky, Georges Bizet, Tchaikovsky
Text: Jeanne Baxtresser
Editor: Daniel Dorff
Transcribed: Martha Rearick
Format: Solo Part with Piano Reduction
Instrumentation: Flute and Piano

Already a staple in flute pedagogy, former New York Philharmonic principal flutist Jeanne Baxtresser's "Orchestral Excerpts for Flute" becomes even more essential with this edition containing edition containing over 50 of the most-requested audition pieces, Including: Stravinsky-Firebird Suite; Tchaikovsky-Symphony #4; Brahms-Symphony #4; Hindemith-Symphonic Lied Von Der Erde; Prokofiev-Peter And The Wolf; Mendelssohn-Midsummer Night's Dream; Rossini-William Tell Overture; R.Strauss-Dance Of The Seven Veils; Bizet-Menuet from "L'Arlesienne"; Bach-Orchestral Suite #2; Rimsky-Korsakov-Capriccio Espagnol; Debussy-Prelude a L'apres-Midi d'un Faun and many more.

For students at the Medium-Advanced through Advanced levels, this edition is packed with helpful tips and performance notes, additional errata, new and alternate fingerings, suggested tempi for all pieces, plus two updated, professional, principal flute audition lists. As required literature for more and more college courses, this is a must-have flute book for advanced players.

Contents:

• Learning to Take a Successful Audition
• Playing in an Orchestra
• How to Use This Book
• Acknowledgments
• About Jeanne Baxtresser and Martha Rearick
• Notes for the Pianist
• 2. "AUS LIEBE" FROM ST. MATTHEW PASSION
• 3. "DOMINE DEUS" FROM MASS IN B MINOR
• 4. SYMPHONY NO. 3
• 5. SYMPHONIE NO. 4
• 6. LEONORE NO. 3
• 7. ENTR'ACTE FROM CARMEN
• 8. MENUET FROM L'ARLESIENNE
• 9. SYMPHONY NO. 1
• 10. SYMPHONY NO. 4
• 11. AFTERNOON OF A FAUN
• 12. SYMPHONY NO. 8
• 13. MENUET AND DANCE FROM ORPHEUS
• 14. SYMPHONIC METAMORPHOSES
• 15. MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
• 16. CLASSICAL SYMPHONY
• 17. PETER AND THE WOLF
• 18. BOLERO
• 19. DAPHNIS ET CHLOE
• 20. RUSSIAN EASTER OVERTURE
• 21. CAPRICCIO ESPAGNOL
• 22. WILLIAM TELL OVERTURE
• 23. CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS
• 24. SALOME
• 25. PETROUCHKA
• 26. CHANT DU POSSIGNOL
• 27. SYMPHONY NO. 4
• 28. CLOSING REMARKS