Solo
- Exposition from the first movement of one of the following concerti:
Tchaikovsky
Brahms
Beethoven
Sibelius - One movement from any unaccompanied Sonata or Partita by JS Bach
(2-3 minutes)
First Violin Excerpts
- Strauss Don Juan
- Measures 1-62
- Brahms Symphony #4:
- Mvt 2 – measures 74-101
- Mvt 4 – measures 33-80
- Mozart Symphony #39:
- Mvt 2 – measures 1-54
- Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Scherzo – measures 17-99
- Schumann Symphony #2
- Mvt 2 – Scherzo beginning up to Trio 1 (with repeat)
- Debussy La Mer
- Mvt 2 – Rehearsal 32 to 39
- Puccini Madama Butterfly
- Act 3 – Pick up to 6 before Reh 3 to 6 after Reh 4
Possible sight reading
Solo: first movement (no cadenzas) from one of the following concerti:
- Bottesini #2
- Koussevitzky
- Andres Martin
- Vanhal
Orchestra Excerpts
- Mozart Symphony #39, K.543
- 1st movement
- mm. 40—105
- mm. 302—end
- 1st movement
- Beethoven Symphony #5, op. 67
- 3rd movement
- Beginning—m.100
- Trio: pickup to m.141—m.218
- 3rd movement
- Beethoven Symphony #9, op. 125
- 4th movement
- Beginning—m.131 (off on beat 3)
- 4th movement
- Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique, op.14
- 5th movement:
- Witches’ Round Dance Pickups to bar 3 of Rehearsal 70—9th Bar of Rehearsal 74
- 5th movement:
- Brahms Symphony #2, op. 73
- 4th movement
- mm.244—279
- 4th movement
- Verdi Otello
- Act IV, Double Bass soli
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