List of Excerpts for Sublist Auditions

For the excerpt list for specific positions, please email Elisa Birdseye.

Flute

• Beethoven: Leonore #3 Overture, opening passage plus solo
• Mendelssohn: Scherzo from Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Prokofiev: Classical Symphony Minuet
• Stravinsky: Firebird

Oboe/EH

• Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin – 1st mvt. opening solo to rehearsal 2
• Beethoven: Symphony 3- 2nd mvt. first 2 solo entrances (beginning to A; mm.36- 47), 3rd mvt. mm.1-28 and pickup to 12 before A to 23 after A (mm. 80-115)
• Brahms: Symphony 1- 2nd mvt. mm. 17-23 and 1 note before B to 5 after B
• Rossini: La Scala di Seta- the Andantino: beginning to reh. 1 and the Allegro from reh. 2-3

Clarinet

Slow excerpts:

• Rachmaninov: Symphony #2, 3rd mvt.- beginning to 1 measure before 47
• Brahms: Symphony #4, 2nd mvt.- beginning to measure 13

Fast:

• Mendelssohn: Scherzo from Midsummer Night’s Dream- beginning to measure 48
• Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe Suite #2- 214 to the end

Bassoon

• Mozart: Marriage of Figaro (overture), bsn1
• Tchaikovsky: 4th Symphony, 2nd mvt. bsn1
• Brahms: violin concerto, 2nd mvt. bsn2
• Mozart: Haffner symphony, 4th mvt. bsn2

Horn

• Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, scherzo, first horn
• Brahms: Symphony No. 1, second mvt. solo, first horn
• Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel, opening solo, first horn

Trumpet

• Stravinsky: Petrushka: Ballerina’s Dance
• Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade only
• Respighi Pines of Rome: offstage solo only
• Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels: trumpet 3, rehearsal #36 to end

Trombone

• Mozart: Requiem: Tuba Mirum
• Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels: excerpts 2 before #2 through #4, #35-38
• Rossini: La Gazza Ladra
• Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis: mvt. 2 Letter H-J

Tuba

• Wagner: Die Meistersinger, Act I Prelude (Overture) Letter J –L
• Prokofiev: Symphony No 5: Mvt I, #3-#6, and mvt. IV, #94-to 5 after #98
• Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis: mvt. 2 4 after L to2 after N
• Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique mvts. 4 & V (Tuba I)

Violin

• Don Juan page 1
• First page of Schumann 2 scherzo
• Intro to Brahms 1 and the concertmaster solo

Viola

• Page 1 of Don Juan
• Roman Carnival overture (key passage)
• Beethoven 5 2nd mvt.
• Shostakovich 5 (key passage mvt. 1)

Cello

• Beethoven 5 (2nd and 3rd mvt.)
• Don Juan 1st page
• La Mer (top line of quartet section – 1st mvt.) Mendelssohn MSND
• Scherzo Brahms 2 (or 3) slow mvt. Mozart 35 1st and/or 4th mvt.
• Beethoven 8 trio

Bass

• Beethoven 9 Symphony recitative
• Beethoven 5 2nd mvt., 3rd mvt. – Scherzo; measure 44 to 5 measures after A
• Beethoven 5 3rd mvt. – Trio; beginning for 37 measures – no repeat
• Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije Solo
• Mozart: Symphony No. 39, K. 543, E-flat major (mvts. 1 and 4)

For questions about NBSO auditions, email NBSO Personnel Manager Elisa Birdseye.