Languages

Principal Harp – Audition Repertoire

STAGE 1

Solo

F. Händel: Harp Concerto in Bb Major, opus 4 no 6, HWV 294 – 1st movement (no repeats)
(All versions, except Grandjany, accepted)

Orchestra excerpts:

H. Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique op. 14
2nd movement Un Bal, Harp I until rehearsal number 35

B. Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Variation I: Solo cadenza
Fugue: Figure I to J

M. Ravel : Tzigane
Quasi cadenza

M. Ravel: Piano concerto in G
Solo cadenza

B. Smetana: Ma Vlast, Vyšehrad
Cadenza, both harps

I. Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
2nd movement, bars 117–125
2nd movement, 1 bar before 172 to 177

G. Verdi: Overture to La forza del destino
Allegro brillante, harp I

P. I. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake op. 20
Act 2 – Solo cadenza

 

STAGE 2

Solo:

Debussy: Deux Danses for harp and string orchestra, with piano accompaniment

Orchestra excerpts:

B. Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Movement 4: Intermezzo interrotto, bar 42-58, harp I
Movement 5: Finale, bar 345-356, harp I

A. Bruckner: Symphony No. 8
Movement 3: Adagio, harp 1

C. Debussy: La Mer
Movement 1, harp 1 – marked excerpts
Movement 2, harp 2 – marked excerpts

C. Franck: Symphony in D minor
Movement 2: Allegretto, bars 1-48

G. Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Movement 4: Adagietto

R. Strauss: Salome Op. 54
Salome’s Dance

R. Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Act 3, Scene 3 (Liebestod)
letter D to the end

R. Wagner: Die Walküre
Feuerzauber, Act 3, Scene 3 (Fire Magic)
4 bars before 97 to the end