Bartók — Viola Concerto (Serly completion), opening

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Where this excerpt appears

Standard on every major conservatory and principal viola audition list
Competition required works (Primrose International Viola Competition)
Graduate recital programs and fellowship selections
Summer festival principal-viola screens

Panel-ready practice tips

1.The Bartók Viola Concerto is the Mount Everest of the viola audition repertoire. Panels know it as well as you do. Specificity is the only edge.
2.The left-hand glissandi are written and expected — do not soften or omit them. They are stylistically load-bearing.
3.The opening cadenza-like passage must project over silence. Plan your bow speed and pressure before you play the first note.
4.Rhythmic precision inside lyrical phrasing is the Bartók paradox. Practice with a metronome until the pulse is invisible.
5.The fast passagework requires planned fingerings that stay in position as long as possible — shifting mid-run loses intonation under pressure.