Bassoon excerpts

Orchestral excerpts

Bassoon Orchestral Excerpts

The following list is by no means definitive (and is admittedly a little dated), but should provide a reasonably accurate ranking of these excerpts by the frequency they appear on orchestral auditions. At the very least, it is a good starting place if you are looking to study some of the most challenging orchestral passages for the bassoonist.

Composer	Piece	pdf
Beethoven	Symphony #4	complete part
Tchaikovsky	Symphony #4	complete part
Stravinsky	Rite of Spring	excerpt only
Ravel	Bolero	excerpt only
Rimsky-Korsakov	Scheherazade	complete part
Brahms	Symphony #3	complete part
Mozart	Marriage of Figaro	complete part
Dukas	Sorcerer's Apprentice	complete part
Beethoven	Symphony #6	complete part
Stravinsky	Firebird	excerpt only
Beethoven	Symphony #9	complete part
Berlioz	Symphonie Fantastique	complete part
Mozart	Symphony #41	complete part
Ravel	Piano Concerto in G	excerpt only
Strauss	Don Quixote	not available
Wagner	Tannhauser	excerpt only
Bartok	Concerto for Orchestra	excerpt only
Prokoviev	Peter and the Wolf	excerpt only
Shostakovich	Symphony #9	excerpt only
Strauss	Don Juan	complete part
Strauss	Till Eulenspiegel	not available
Beethoven	Leonora Overture #3	excerpt only
Beethoven	Symphony #5	complete part
Brahms	Symphony #2	complete part
Haydn	Symphony #88	complete part
Ravel	Rhapsodie Espagnol	complete part
Strauss	Also Sprach Zarathustra	complete part
Tchaikovsky	Symphony #5	complete part
Beethoven	Violin Concerto	complete part
Brahms	Violin Concerto	complete part
Stravinsky	Petrouchka	not available
Stravinsky	Pucinella	excerpt only
Verdi	Il Vespri Siciliana	excerpt only
Tchaikovsky	Symphony #6	complete part
Ravel	Mother Goose	not available
Strauss	Salome	not available
Brahms	Symphony #4	complete part
Haydn	Symphony #103	not available
Mahler	Das Lied von der Erde	complete part
Ravel	Left Hand Piano Concerto	not available
Strauss	Death & Transfiguration	complete part
Stravinsky	Song of the Nightingale	excerpt only
Stravinsky	L'Histoire du Soldat	not available
Beethoven	Symphony #2	complete part
Beethoven	Symphony #3	complete part
Bizet	Carmen	not available
Brahms	Variations on a Theme of Haydn	complete part
Mendelssohn	Midsummer's Night Dream	complete part
Mozart	Magic Flute	excerpt only
Mozart	Symphony #38	complete part
Mozart	Symphony #40	complete part
Resphigi	Trittico Botticelliano	excerpt only
Verdi	Requiem	excerpt only
Brahms	Symphony #1	complete part
Britten	Young Person's Guide	excerpt only
Sibelius	Symphony #2	complete part
Smetana	Bartered Bride	excerpt only
Tchaikovsky	Romeo and Juliet	not available
Mendelssohn	Symphony #4	complete part
Mozart	Symphony #35	complete part
Prokofiev	Classical Symphony	complete part

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