Below is a comprehensive list of flute excerpts which are the most popular and most requested by orchestras on auditions. For the last thirty years or so(!), the flute's most popular and requested excerpts can be narrowed to these excerpts.
TOP FIVE REQUESTED EXCERPTS Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3 Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98 Debussy L'apres-midi d'un faune Mendelssohn Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream Ravel Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2
The most frequently asked flute audition repertoire is listed below (in alphabetical order):
Bach "Aus Liebe will ein Heiland sterben" from St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 Bach Mass in B Minor Bach Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 Bartok Concerto for Orchestra Beethoven Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" Beethoven Symphony No. 4 Beethoven Symphony No. 7 Bizet Entr'acte from Carmen, Suite No. 1 Bizet L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1 Brahms Symphony No. 1 Debussy La Mer Dvorak Symphony No. 8 in G Major Gluck Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Orfeo ed Euridice Hindemith Mathis der Maler Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis Mahler Das Lied von der Erde Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 Mozart Serenade No. 9 in D Major, K 320 Piston Suite from The Incredible Flutist Prokofiev Classical Symphony, Op. 25 Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 Prokofiev Symphony No. 5 Ravel Bolero Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherezade Rossini Overture to Semiramide Rossini William Tell Overture Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals Schumann Symphony No. 1 Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 Shostakovich Symphony No. 6 Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 Stravinsky Jeu de Cartes Stravinsky L'Oiseau de Feu Stravinsky Le Chant du rossignol Stravinsky Petrouchka Stravinsky Symphony in 3 movements Strauss, R. Don Juan Strauss, R Salome, Op. 43 Strauss, R. Till Eulenspiegels lustige streiche, Op. 28 Strauss, R. Tod und Verklarung Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet
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