Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions

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 3. 4. 6 & 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 & 90; Leoncavallo - Pagliacci; Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro, Cosi fan tutte, Symphony No 40; Ravel - Bolero, 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 - Symphony No 4, 5 & 6; Verdi - Otello; Wagner - Lohengrin, Di Meistersinger von Nurnberg; Weber - Der Freischutz Beethoven - Symphonies 5 & 9, Fidelio; Berg - Wozzeck; Brahms - Symphonies 1 & 3; Ravel - Ma mre l'oye, Piano Concerto for the Left Hand; Richard Strauss - Salome, Elektra; Verdi - Don Carlos. Edited by Kolneder.