The Symphony Orchestra of the Central Conservatory of Music

Appendix I

The Symphony Orchestra of the Central Conservatory of Music

AList of Orchestral Excerpts for the Audition

Flute

1. Achille-Claude Debussy: Prelude a L'après-midi D'un Faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)

2. Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25

3. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

4. Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Oboe

1.Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

2. Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25

3. Richard Georg Strauss:Don Juan

4.Gioacchino Rossini: La Scalu di Seta (The Silken Ladder)

Clarinet

1. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

2. Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

3. Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90

4. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74

Bassoon

1. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60

2. Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90

3. Maurice Ravel: Bolero

4. Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

French Horn

1. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

2. Richard Georg Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks), Op. 28

3.Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64

4. Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47

Trumpet

1. Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky: Petrushka

2. Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor

3. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

4. Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky: Firebird

Trombone

1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem

2. Maurice Ravel: Bolero

3. Richard Georg Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks), Op. 28

4. Wilhelm Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser

Bass Trombone

1. Gioacchino Rossini: William Tell Overture

2. Wilhelm Richard Wagner: Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)

3. Franz Joseph Haydn: Die Schöpfung (The Creation)

4. César Franck: Symphony in D minor

Tuba

1. Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major

2. Hector Louis Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14

3. Johannes Brahms: Akademische Festouvertüre (Academic Festival Overture), Op. 80

4. Wilhelm Richard Wagner: Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)

Percussion

1. George Gershwin:Porgy and Bess Overture (Xylophone)

2. Dmitry Kabalevsky: Overture to Colas Breugon (Xylophone)

3. Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich: Polka from the Ballet The Golden Age, Op. 22 (Xylophone)

4. Kodály Zoltán: Háry János Suite (Xylophone)

5. Béla Viktor János Bartók: Concerto For Orchestra, Sz. 116, BB 123 (Snare Drum)

6. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (Snare Drum and Triangle)

7. William Schuman: Symphony No. 3 (Snare Drum)

Harp

1. Béla Viktor János Bartók: Concerto For Orchestra, Sz. 116, BB 123

2. Benjamin Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

3. Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor

4. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Excerpts)

Violin

1. Wilhelm Richard Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser

2. Richard Georg Strauss:Don Juan

3.Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet

Viola

1. Richard Georg Strauss:Don Juan

2. Richard Georg Strauss: Don Quixote

3. Bedrich Smetana: Overture to Prodaná Nevesta (The Bartered Bride)

4. Adolphe Adam: Giselle

Cello

1. Richard Georg Strauss:Don Juan

2. Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73

3. Bedrich Smetana: Overture to Prodaná Nevesta (The Bartered Bride)

4. Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83

Contrabass

1. Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68

2. Bedrich Smetana: Overture to Prodaná Nevesta (The Bartered Bride)

3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No.40 in G minor, K.550

4. Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major

Note: Applicants are required to play orchestral excerpt(s) selected from the above list by the audition panel.