Audition Repertoire - Probespielrepertoire 2020

You will receive the sheet music with more detailed information about the excerpts after your registration!

Violin

• A romantic or 20^th century concerto
  or a concert piece
• Mozart: concerto K 211, 216, 218 or 219, 1^st mvt with cadenza
  
  
• Beethoven: Symphony No 6, 3^rd mvt, bars 1 – 80 (1^st violin)
• Beethoven: Symphony No 6, 4^th mvt (the storm), bars 1 – 19 (2^nd violin)
• Bruckner: Symphony No 3, 2^nd mvt, bars 122 – 141; 3^rd mvt, bars 121 – 159 (Scherzo), bars 7 – 39 (Trio) (1^st violin)
• Mozart: Symphony No 39, 4^th mvt (1^st violin)
• Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Suite No 2, 2^nd mvt, "Juliet, the young girl“ 11 – 14 (1^st violin)
• Strauss: Don Juan, Beginning to bar 62 (1^st violin)

Viola

• A piece of your own choice 
• Stamitz or Hoffmeister: concerto, 1^st mvt with cadenza
  
  
• Beethoven: Symphony No 6, 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th mvt
• Bruckner: Symphony No 3, 3^rd and 4^th mvt
• Mendelssohn: Sommernachtstraum, 1^st mvt, Scherzo
• Mozart: Zauberflöte, Overture                    
• Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Suite No 1, “The Death of Tybald” & Suite No 2, 2^nd and 5^th mvt
• Strauss: Don Juan, Beginning to 6 bars after C

Cello

• A piece of your own choice
  
  
• Beethoven: Symphony No 6, 2^nd mvt, bars 20 – 26; 4^th mvt (the storm), bars 33 – 51
• Mendelssohn: Sommernachtstraum, Scherzo
• Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Suite No 2, 2^nd mvt, 12 – 14; 3^rd mvt, 22 – 24, upper divisi; 7^th mvt, 62 to 5 bars after 63
• Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Beginning to 5^th bar after 2

Double Bass

• Koussevitsky: Concerto, 1^st & 2^nd mvt
  or Bottesini: Concerto 1^st & 2^nd mvt with cadenza
  or Vanhal: Concerto for Double Bass, 1^st mvt, with cadenza
  
  
• Beethoven: Symphony No 6, 1^st mvt, bars 79 – 86; bars 263 – 281
• Bruckner: Symphony No 3, 1^st mvt, 1 bar before A to 7^th after A
• Bruckner: Te Deum, Aeterna fac, bars 14 – 22
• Nielsen: Symphony No 6, Finale, the last 4 bars
• Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Suite No 1, “The Death of Tybald”, Beginning to bar 9 & Suite No 2 “Romeo & Juliet before parting”, bars 70 – 84

Flute

• A piece of your own choice
  
  
• Brahms: Symphony No 1, 4^th mvt, & Symphony No 4, 4^th mvt
• Mendelssohn: Sommernachtstraum, Scherzo
• Mozart: Zauberflöte, 1^st act, No 8, Finale
• Prokofiev: Peter and the wolf
• Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Suite No 1, 3^rd mvt, 30 – 33
• Ravel: Daphnis & Chloé, Suite No 2, from bar 176

Piccolo

• Beethoven: Symphony No 9, 4^th mvt, Allegro assai vivace, Alla marcia
• Rossini: Semiramis, Overture
• Shostakovich: Symphony No 9, 2^nd and 3^rd mvt

Oboe

• A piece of your own choice
  
  
• Brahms: Symphony No 1, 1^st and 2^nd mvt
• Dvorak: Cello Concerto, 2^nd Oboe, 2^nd mvt
• Mozart: Symphony No 41 “Jupiter”, 1^st mvt
• Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Suite No 1, 2^nd mvt, solo after 26
• Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, Prelude
• Rossini: La scala di seta, Overture

English Horn

• Dvorak: Symphony No 9, 2^nd mvt
• Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

Clarinet

• A piece of your own choice
  
  
• Beethoven: Symphony No 6, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd and 5^th mvt
• Kodaly: Dances from Galanta
• Mendelssohn: Sommernachtstraum, Scherzo, Allegro Vivace
• Prokofiev: Peter and the wolf
• Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Suite No 2, 2^nd mvt, 14

High Clarinet

• Ravel: Bolero, 3 – 4
• Ravel: Daphnis & Chloé, Suite No 2

Bass Clarinet

• Liszt: Dante Sinfonie, 1^st mvt, “Inferno”
• Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No 1, 2^nd mvt

Bassoon

• A piece of your own choice
  
  
• Beethoven: Symphony No 4, 4^th mvt
• Beethoven: Violin Concerto, 2^nd mvt
• Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, Overture
• Ravel: Bolero, 2 – 3
• Shostakovich: Symphony No 9, 4^th and 5^th mvt
• Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6, 1^st mvt

Double Bassoon

• Brahms: Symphony No 1, 1^st and 4^th mvt
• Ravel: Ma mere l´oye, 4^th mvt, “Les Entretiens de la belle et de la bête”

Saxophone

• A piece of your own choice

Please note that, regarding the orchestral excerpts, it is not mandatory to apply for every instrument, but it is appreciated

• Bernstein: West Side Story, Symphonic Dances, bars 18 – 30, 404 – 438
• Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Suite No 1, 1^st and 4^th mvt & Suite No 2, 1^st, 2^nd and 6^th mvt
• Ravel: Bolero, Solo, bars 131 – 143
• Mussorgsky: Pictures of an Exhibition, "Il vecchio castello"

Horn (High)

• Strauss: Concerto No 1
  or Mozart: Concerto No 4 K 495
  
  
• Beethoven: Symphony No 6, 3^rd and 5^th mvt & Symphony No 7, 1^st mvt
• Brahms: Symphony No 2, 1^st mvt (1^st AND 3^rd horn) and 2^nd mvt
• Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel (1^st AND 3^rd horn) & Ein Heldenleben
• Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5, 2^nd mvt

Horn (Low)

• Mozart: Concerto No 3 K 447 
• Neuling: Bagatelle
  
  
• Beethoven: Symphony No 7, 1^st mvt
• Shostakovich: Symphony No 5, 17 – 21
• Strauss: Don Quixote, Var. VII & VIII & Ein Heldenleben, 2^nd AND 5^th horn
• Wagner: Götterdämmerung, 2^nd act, 2^nd scene

Trumpet

• Haydn: Concerto in E flat
  
  
• Beethoven: Leonore, Overtures Nos 2 & 3 (Signals)
• Mahler: Symphony No 5, 1^st mvt & Symphony No 6, 1^st and 4^th mvt
• Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

Cornet

• Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet, Nos 11, 12 and 48

Trombone

• David: Concerto
  
  
• Brahms: Symphony No 1, 4^th mvt
• Mahler: Symphony No 3, 1^st mvt (solo)
• Mozart: Requiem, Tuba mirum
• Ravel: Bolero
• Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, "Der Genesende" & "Das Tanzlied" & Till Eulenspiegel, 31 and 37
• Wagner: Lohengrin, 3^rd act, Prelude

Bass Trombone

• Sachse: Concerto
  
  
• Haydn: The Creation, No 26
• Rossini: Guglielmo Tell, Overture
• Schumann: Symphony No 3, 4^th mvt
• Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
• Wagner: Die Walküre, 3^rd act, 1^st scene: "Ride of the Valkyries" and 2^nd scene

Tuba

• Strauss: Horn Concerto op. 11
  or Vaughan Williams: Concerto
  
  
• Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, 4^th and 5^th mvt
• Bruckner: Symphony No. 7, 1^st, 2^nd and 4^th mvt
• Mahler: Symphony No 1, 3^rd mvt (solo)
• Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
• Wagner: Siegfried, 2^nd act, Prelude

Percussion

Timpani

• Beethoven: Symphony No 9, 1^st mvt, coda
• Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis,  2^nd mvt
• Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, Finale (one player version)
• Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4, 1^st mvt

Snare Drum

• Prokofiev: Peter and the wolf, 49
• Ravel: Bolero
• Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade, 3^rd mvt, D – J and 4^th mvt, P – R
• Rossini: La gazza ladra, Overture

Xylophone

• Gershwin: Porgy and Bess, Introduction
• Hindemith: Chamber Music No.1 
• Stravinsky: The Firebird, Ballett, 1^st act, 47 – 48 and 127 – 133

Glockenspiel

• Debussy: La Mer, 2^nd & 3^rd mvt
• Dukas: L'Apprentí sorcier

Harp

• Spohr: Fantasie c-moll op. 53
  
  
• Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, 2^nd mvt
• Smetana: My homeland, 1^st mvt, “Vyšehrad”
• Wagner: Tristan and Isolde, “Liebestod”

Piano/Celesta

• Mozart: a movement of a solo piece of your own choice
  
  
• Stavinsky: L'Oiseau de feu, suite pour orchestre (1919), "Introduction", beginning to bar 81
• Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet, Suite 1, Nos 5 & 7 and Suite 2, No 1 (celesta) & No 4 (piano)