Oregon Symphony Principal Bass

Audition Repertoire

Preliminary, Semi-Final and Final Auditions: May 27-29, 2024

Solo Repertoire
Bach One movement from a Cello Suite (no Sarabandes)

Concerto Bottesini, Vanhal, Dittersdorf, or Koussevitzky

Movement I – Exposition Only

Orchestral Excerpts
Bartók Music for Strings, Percussion, Mvt. I: mm. 37 to downbeat of mm. 56

and Celeste

Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Mvt. III: Beginning to mm. 218

Beethoven Symphony No. 9 Mvt. IV: mm. 8-29, mm. 38-90, mm.431-525

Brahms Symphony No. 2 Mvt. I: Reh E to Reh F

Mvt. IV: mm. 244-279

Britten Young Person’s Guide to Variation H: Beginning to 9 bars before

the Orchestra Var. I

Ginastera Variaciones Concertantes Variation XI: 65 to 3 bars after 67

Mahler Symphonie No. 1 Mvt. III: 3 bars after 1 to 2 bars after 2

Mahler Symphony No. 5 Mvt. II: Reh 33 – end

Mvt. III: mm. 212-235 (play all divisi)

Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 Mvt. I: mm. 41-90

Mozart Symphony No. 39 Mvt. I: mm. 40-97

Mvt. IV: pickup to mm. 105-137

Mozart Symphony No. 40 Mvt. I: pickup to mm. 115-138, mm. 191-226

Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2 Scene 5: 4 bars after 49 – 1 before Reh 51

top divisi

Schubert Symphony No. 9 Mvt. Ill: Beginning to mm. 238, no repeats

Strauss Ein Heldenleben Reh 9 to 1 measure after Reh 11

Reh 51 to Reh 70

Stravinsky Pulcinella No. 7: Complete (no repeat)

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 Mvt. I: mm. 51-71, mm. 253-273

Verdi Othello Act IV: Reh U to 7 bars after Reh X

Sight-reading may be asked.