Test Pieces for orchestral auditions Bassoon

Test Pieces for orchestral auditions Bassoon

Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions for Bassoon and Double Bassoon. Excerpts from the Operatic and Concert Repertoire.

Content:

• Beethoven - Symphonies 3. 4. 6 and 9, Overtures: Coriolan, Leonore No 3, Violin Concerto, Fidelio
• Berlioz -Symphonie fantastique
• Bizet - Carmen
• Brahms - Symphony No 2, 'Haydn' Variations,
• Violin Concerto
• Donizetti -L'elisir d'amore
• Haydn - Symphonies 88 and 90
• Leoncavallo - Pagliacci
• Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro,
• Cosi fantutte, Symphony No. 40
• Ravel - Boléro, Piano Concerto in G major, Rapsodie espagnole
• Rimsky-Korsakov -Sheherazade;
• Rossini - Il Barbiere di Siviglia
• Shostakovich - Symphony No. 9
• Schumann - Symphony No.1
• Smetana - The Bartered Bride
• Richard Strauss - Don Quixote, Till Eulenspiegel, Heldenleben, Salome
• Stravinsky - Firebird, Rite of Spring, Pulcinella
• Tchaikovsky - Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 and 6
• Verdi -Otello
• Wagner - Lohengrin, Di Meistersinger von Nürnberg
• Weber - Der Freischütz

For contra bassoon:

• Beethoven - Symphonies 5 and 9, Fidelio
• Berg - Wozzeck
• Brahms - Symphonies 1 and 3
• Ravel - Ma mère l'oye, Piano Concerto for the Left
• Verdi - Don Carlos