Lesson 90: Performance Preparation, Part 5 — Audition and Complete Recital

Prepare one secure piece for an audition.
Perform and record the full recital planned in Lesson 86.

Finish this programme; choose your next direction.

Bring together your programme, stage routine, recovery plan and recording setup from Lessons 86–89. Begin with a dress rehearsal: one full run with all pauses included.

Choose the audition piece

Check the audition’s rules first; choose an allowed piece that shows your strengths and that you have already performed.

Handel HWV 360, first or second movement (Lessons 61–62).
Handel HWV 362, Larghetto (Lesson 76).
Telemann TWV 41:F2 (Lessons 64–66).
Van Eyck, Doen Daphne, theme and first variation (Lesson 71).

Play the recital

Use your Lesson 87 entry, tuning, pauses and exit.
Use your Lesson 88 routine and recovery plan.
Record with the tested setup from Lesson 89.

A recorded dress rehearsal can be your first full performance; invite a listener when you are ready.

Listen and choose the next step

Listen once for the full shape, then again for detail; name two things that worked and one passage to improve, and record that passage again.

Now play these

Play your full programme and audition piece; then choose a new work or ensemble project.