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An accompanist is provided (you must bring the piano parts with you to the audition).
Sight-reading may be asked of all candidates, including saxophone and recorder.
Saxophone, Recorder, and Timpani and percussion requirements are different from above, and are
indicated separately below.
SET WORKS
FLUTE TRUMPET
Mozart: Concerto in G Haydn: Concerto in Eb
OBOE (one piece, either the set work or own choice,
Mozart: Concerto in C must be played on the Bb trumpet)
CLARINET TENOR TROMBONE
Mozart: Concerto in A Gordon Jacob: Concerto
BASSOON BASS TROMBONE
Mozart: Concerto in Bb Lebedev: Concerto
HORN TUBA
Mozart: Concerto No.4 in Eb Major K.495 Vaughan Williams: Concerto
SAXOPHONE
Three contrasting pieces of your own choice.
The panel may hear selections from your pieces within your allocated audition time.
A pianist will be at your audition (including warm-up time).
Please notify Richard Benjafield at least ten days before your audition date if you are playing some
accompanied repertoire that may not be so commonly known, and supply a copy of the piano
accompaniment by email to richard.benjafield@gsmd.ac.uk
RECORDER
Three contrasting pieces appropriate to your instrument, including contemporary repertoire if you
wish. No orchestral excerpts are required.
Please notify us at least ten days before your audition date if you are playing some accompanied
repertoire that may not be so commonly known, and supply a copy of the accompaniment by email
to richard.benjafield@gsmd.ac.uk
ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS
These can mostly be found in Orchester Probespiel (Edition Peters), but any commonly-used excerpt
book or standard edition of the orchestral part is acceptable.
FLUTE
Beethoven: Leonora Overture No. 3
Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Nights Dream (Scherzo)
Ravel: Daphnis and Chlo
OBOE
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Rossini: The Silken Ladder Overture
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor
CLARINET
Beethoven: Symphony No.6 in F major Pastoral
Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Nights Dream (Scherzo)
Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite (1945) (Variation movement only)
BASSOON
Brahms: Violin Concerto (2nd Bassoon only)
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro Overture
Shostakovich: Symphony No.9
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 in E minor
HORN
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 in D minor (4th Horn)
Mahler: Symphony No.9
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Rossini: The Barber of Seville Overture
TRUMPET
Mahler: Symphony No.5 (1st movement)
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (Eb trumpet part)
Stravinsky: Petrouchka
TENOR TROMBONE
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D minor
Mozart: Requiem - Tuba Mirum
Wagner: Tannhuser overture
Rossini: William Tell Overture
BASS TROMBONE
Kodly: Hry Jnos
Rossini: William Tell Overture
Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyries (from Die Walkre)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor
TUBA
Berlioz: King Lear
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor ("Resurrection")
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 in E minor
Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyries (from Die Walkre)
Tuned Percussion
Stravinsky: Petrouchka (1911) (xylophone)
Copland: Appalachian Spring (xylophone)
Gershwin: Porgy & Bess, opening passage (xylophone)
Dukas: Sorcerers Apprentice (glockenspiel)
Snare Drum
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (movements 3 & 4)
Bartk: Concerto for Orchestra (second movement)
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kij