Preliminary Round
One work from the list chosen by a candidate:
- Tchaikovsky — Suite No. 3 in G major, Op. 55: Scherzo
- Mendelssohn — The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), Ouverture, Op. 26
- Mozart — Overture to Die Zauberflöte, K. 620
- Berlioz — Queen Mab Scherzo from Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17
Semi-finals
One work from each section chosen by a candidate:
(a) Cello & orchestra (excerpts)
- Ernest Bloch — Schelomo (excerpts)
- Richard Strauss — Don Quixote, Op. 35 (excerpts)
- Soloist: Thierry Amadi, cello
(b) Orchestral
- Debussy — Jeux
- Stravinsky — Petrushka (suite, 1945)
- Beethoven — Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60
Finals
- Evgeny Svetlanov — Images of Spain, Rhapsody No.
- Contemporary work — René Koering: Initiales “ES”, commission of the Evgeny Svetlanov International Conducting Competition.
- One of the three works pre-selected by the candidate in the application:
- Debussy — La Mer (chosen by Euan Shields)
- Stravinsky — The Firebird, Suite No. 3 (1945) (chosen by Henri Christofer Aavik)
- Richard Strauss — Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24 (chosen by Ilya Ram)
- Robert Schumann — Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61 (chosen by Jesko Sirvend)