Clarinet audition cd repertoire?
For my college app, I am asked to produce a 10 min cd demonstrating « contrasting examples of expression and technique. » I can play the Mozart Clarinet concerto First mvt confidently for about the first 6 min, and the second mvt confidently. Would it be a good idea to use two movements from the same concerto to demonstrate contrasting technique and style?
First of all, stay away from the Mozart Concerto if you have a choice.
Many colleges REQUIRE this piece, but if not, don’t play it. This piece is played by nearly everyone who auditions to ANY school, and the admissions people who listen to your audition will have heard it a 30 times THAT DAY… they will be tired of it and overly critical. If you miss ONE note or have ONE breath too many, or they don’t like your interpretation of the style or articulation- it’s « Sorry Charlie, better luck next time »!
Instead, try to choose something along the same difficulty like Carl Maria Von Weber’s Clarinet Concertino. This one is also a « standard », but usually isn’t graded so critically. There is more room for interpretation, with the same demand of musicality and technical ability as the Mozart Concerto.
In Weber’s Concertino, the movements are divided by tempo, but they all segue into one another… the first is slow, then faster, then blazing fast! You could do the first 2 sections in about 4 minutes and have time for something else… this is good.
Try to do something from a contrasting period. Weber is from the early Romantic… so you could try doing some Baroque (maybe Tartini) because the styles contrast beautifully, or take it the other direction and play something 20th Century (like 3 Pieces for Solo Clarinet by Igor Stravinsky- if you’re up to it!).
Mostly, you want to show your versatility… so don’t choose pieces from the same period if you can help it.
Also, a couple tips: worry about your musicality MORE than the technicallity… fingerings and articulations can be learned… expression and phrasing is harder. Don’t take this as « oh, I can be sloppy if I have good dynamics »… but missing a note or 2 is preferrable to you breaking the flow of a piece by breathing in the……. middle of a sentence.
And lastly, remember to have fun! Auditions are stressful- even if you get to record and edit it… just don’t forget that you love what you do!
Good luck! 
Mozart Concerto in F for 3 pianos and orchestra, K 242 « Lodron Konzert »
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Fleisher, Leon – Mozart: Piano Concertos CD NEW €12.16 |
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Mozart W.A. Mozart: Piano Concerto No.20 CD NEW €16.96 |
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2-CD-Set*Mozart*The 5 Violin Concertos*Perlman /Levine €10.00 |
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Leonard BERNSTEIN: MOZART Symphony 36 Piano Concerto 15 Decca Classic Sound CD €29.99 |
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Karl BÖHM: BRAHMS Double Concerto MOZART Haffner SCHUBERT Sym 8 SCHNEIDERHAN CD €17.99 |
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Karl BÖHM: MOZART Flute & Harp Clarinet Concerto CD Alfred Prinz Wolfgang Schulz €19.99 |
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Karl BÖHM MOZART Symphony 40 BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto 4 Musulin + Rehearsal CD €19.99 |
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Frans BRÜGGEN & Eric HOEPRICH: MOZART Clarinet Concerto Quintet CD PHILIPS 1988 €35.00 |
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Mozart/Gulda – PIANO CONCERTOS 26&23 TELDEC CD (c) 1984 €14.99 |
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Mozart / Concertos – Oboe – Clarinet – Horn – Flute & Harp / CD €6.99 |
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CD 40- Concerto Pour Clarinette K622, Quintette Pour Clarinette K581 de Mozart €16.00 |
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Tryon/Lso/Trory Mozart:Piano Concertos CD NEUF €10.45 |
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MOZART-CLARINET CONCERTO/QUINTET/OBOE QUARTET-ANDREW MARRINER-Nr MINT CD €3.73 |
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Christopher HOGWOOD: MOZART Harp Flute Bassoon Concerto CD Lisa Beznosiuk Bond €29.99 |
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Christopher HOGWOOD: MOZART Flute Harp Bassoon Concerto CD Lisa Beznosiuk Kelly €14.99 |
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Brautigam/Die Kol Ak/Willens Mozart:Piano Concertos CD NEUF €17.90 |
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Brautigam/Die Kol Ak/Willens Mozart:Piano Concertos CD NEW €16.96 |
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Herbert von KARAJAN: MOZART Harp Flute Concerto 1 2 JAMES GALWAY ANDREAS BLAU CD €29.99 |
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CD – Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 19 & 25 NEUF €3.56 |
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Otto KLEMPERER & Alan CIVIL MOZART Horn Concerto 1-4 MENDELSSOHN ROSSINI CD 1997 €17.99 |
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Rare WEST GERMANY 410284-2 DECCA Mozart: Horn Concertos CD (Barry Tuckwell) 1984 €13.25 |
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MALCOLM BILSON- Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 25 & 26 – Gardiner CD (West Germany) €9.21 |
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415 975-2 DG – Mozart Violin Concertos No.2 & 4 CD Itzhak Perlman & James Levine €11.52 |
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ALFRED BRENDEL The Collection Vol.6 CD (Mozart Piano Concerto 20/24/Rondo) WG €7.30 |
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Evgeny Kissin – Mozart: Piano Concertos 2 CD NEW €14.23 |
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MOZART Piano Concertos No. 14, 15 & 16 – DANIEL BARENBOIM – (EMI CD – 1988) €4.97 |
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Mozart – Concerto 10, Symphony 34 – Barenboim, Ashkenazy English Chamber (CD) €11.20 |
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Mozart – Symphony 41, Concerto C major flute harp, orchestra K299 – Giulini (CD) €11.20 |
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