Clarinet repertoire

General information: Performing from memory is not mandatory.

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Preliminary round – Video Recording – Listening Sessions

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Gaetano Donizetti: Studio Primo (without repeat)

or

Igor Stravinsky: 2nd & 3rd movements from Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet (A clarinet required)

2nd round – Solo Clarinet Recital

• Gaetano Donizetti: Studio Primo (without repeat)

or

Igor Stravinsky: 2nd & 3rd movements from Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet (A clarinet required)

• And one of the following:

Valentino Bucchi: Concerto

Edison Denisov: Sonata

Franco Donatoni: Clair (1st piece.)

Béla Kovács: Hommage à R. Strauss

Béla Kovács: Hommage à Manuel de Falla

Béla Kovács: Hommage à Niccolò Paganini

Marţian Negrea: Martie

Bruno Mantovani: Bug

Şerban Nichifor: Carnyx

Tiberiu Olah: Sonata

Heinrich Sutermeister: Capriccio

Dan Variu: I’m the best one here (work composed especially for the 2027 edition of Cluj International Music Competition) – download pdf

Jörg Widmann: Fantasie 

Semifinal – Recital with Piano

• One of the following:

Carl Maria von Weber: Concertino, Op. 26

Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet concerto nr. 1 in F minor, op 73 (1st mov.)

Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet concerto nr. 2 in E-flat major, op 74 (1st mov.)

Carl Maria von Weber: Grand Duo Concertant, Op.48 (2nd and 3rd mov.)   

• One of the following:

Johannes Brahms: Sonata in F minor, Op. 120/1 (1st mov.)

Johannes Brahms: Sonata in E flat Major, Op. 120/2 (1st mov.)

Claude Debussy: Première Rhapsodie

Francis Poulenc: Sonata (2nd and 3rd mov.)

Camille Saint-Saëns: Sonata, Op. 167 (3rd & 4th mov.)

Robert Schumann: Phantasiestücke, Op. 73

• One of the following:

Final Round – with The ”Transilvania” State Philharmonic Orchestra

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major KV. 622

 
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