Chicago Symphony Orchestra bassoon audition

Audition information
Position
Bassoon
Application deadline
April 1, 2013
Audition date
May 13–23, 2013
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(Posted on March 27, 2013; last updated about 12 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Mozart—Bassoon Concerto, K. 191
  • Mvt. I: exposition
  • Mvt. II: exposition
First Bassoon Excerpts
Mozart—The Marriage of Figaro
  • Overture: 133–171
Ravel—Boléro
  • 2–3
  • 4–5
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 274–end
Second Bassoon Excerpts
Brahms—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 1–22
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. IV: 9–13
  • Mvt. IV: 126–148
Third Bassoon Excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. II: 165–181
Fourth Bassoon Excerpts
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. IV: 2 before 52 to 53
  • Mvt. V: 63 to 4 after 64
  • Mvt. V: 71–74
  • Mvt. V: 83–84
Contrabassoon Solo
Bach—Suite No. 1 for cello
  • Minuets 1 and 2
Contrabassoon Excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: 663–671
  • Mvt. IV: 709–717
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. IV: 80–91
  • Mvt. IV: 234–255
Beethoven—Missa solemnis
  • Gloria: entire movement
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 113–127
  • Mvt. IV: 240–247
Mahler—Das Lied von der Erde
  • Mvt VI: 3 after 6 to 7
Mahler—Symphony No. 9
  • Mvt. IV: 28–46
  • Mvt. IV: 99–100
Mahler—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt IV: 106 to 3 after 107
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt IV: 2–6
Ravel—Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
  • Beginning to 3 after 1
Schoenberg—Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 (Kalmus Edition)
  • 29–30
  • 2 before 87 to 89
  • 96–99
Schoenberg—Moses und Aron
  • Act I: 75–78
  • Act II: 542–545
  • Act II: 1015–1020
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt II: 65–69
Strauss—Elektra
  • 181–182
Strauss—Salome
  • 151–154
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