Phoenix Symphony bass audition

Audition information
Position
Principal bass
Application deadline
April 11, 2016
Audition date
April 25, 2016
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(Posted on February 3, 2016; last updated about 9 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following concerto movements
Bottesini—Bass Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. I
Koussevitzky—Bass Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Vanhal—Bass Concerto (C or D major)
  • Mvt. I
Bach solo (Sterling edition)
Bach—Suite No. 3 for cello
  • Bourée I and II
Orchestra solos
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation XI
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III: 1 to 2 after 2
Prokofiev—Lieutenant Kijé Suite
  • Mvt. II: 1–16
Stravinsky—Pulcinella Suite
  • Mvt. VII: 85
Orchestra passages
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 1 to 5 after A
  • Mvt. III: 141–218
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. II: 1 to 30 after D
  • Mvt. IV: Recitative to 202
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. I: second ending to 5 after 9
  • Mvt. III: 4 before 41 to 9 after 42
  • Mvt. IV: 2 after 50 to 52
  • Mvt. IV: 10 after 56 to 2 after 59
  • Mvt. V: Pickup to 1 after 70 to 9 after 74
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 54–B
  • Mvt. I: E–F
  • Mvt. I: 13 after H to 20 after H
  • Mvt. I: 37 after K to L
  • Mvt. II: 2 before C to 7 after C
  • Mvt. II: 10 before F to 4 after F
  • Mvt. IV: 1 to 15 after A
  • Mvt. IV: 15 after H to I
  • Mvt. IV: 8 before L to 2 before M
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
  • Mvt. I: 41 to 5 after A
  • Mvt. I: 20 before C to 3 after C
  • Mvt. IV: 33 to 1 before A
  • Mvt. IV: 6 before B to E
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. IV
Mozart—Symphony No. 40
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. IV
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 22 to 4 after 26
  • Mvt. II: 1–49
  • Mvt. IV: 100 to 5 after 104
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 9 to 6 after 12
  • 9 after 15 to 17
  • 51 to 6 after 63
  • 77–78
Sight-reading
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