Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions: Bassoon

Excerpts from the Concert & Operatic Repertoire. Bassoon & Double Bassoon. Accompanying set of CDs available, see MP 8662 - these orchestral recordings present the complete excerpt, and the bassoon parts are not omitted.

• Beethoven - Symphonies 4, 6 & 8
• Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique
• Borodin - Prince Igor
• Brahms - Symphonies 1,3 & 4
• Kodály - Dancesfrom Galanta
• Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No 2
• Mahler - Symphony No 7
• Mendelssohn - TheHebrides, Midsummer Night's Dream, Symphony No 3
• Mozart - Le Clemenza di Tito
• Prokofiev- Peter and the Wolf
• Puccini- Tosca
• Respighi - Pini di Roma
• Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
• Rossini - Il Barbiere di Siviglia,Semiramide
• Shostakovich - Symphonies 1 & 9
• Schubert - Symphony No 8
• Schumann - Symphony No 1
• Smetana - TheBartered Bride
• Richard Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier, Salome
• Stravinsky - Petroushka
• Tchaikovsky - Symphonies 4 &6
• Verdi - Rigoletto, La Traviata, La Forza del Destino
• Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,Götterdämmerung
• Weber - Oberon, Der Freischütz Berlioz - Sympho nie fantastique
• Ravel - Boléro, Piano Concerto in G major,Daphnis & Chloé
• Richard Strauss - Till Eulenspiegel, Der Rosenkavalier, Salome
• Stravinsky - Rite of Spring Bartók - Suite No2
• Liszt - Dante Symphony
• Shostakovich - Violin Concerto No 1, SymphonyNo 8
• Richard Strauss - DonQuixote
• Stravinsky - Rite of Spring
• Verdi - Aida
• Wagner - Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde, Die Walküre