Winds Requirements
NAO 2023 Audition Requirements - Winds
Flute
Solo: Mozart Concert for Flute in G Major, K. 313
First movement
Excerpts:
Beethoven: Leonora Overture No. 3
SOLO: measure 328 to 360
Debussy: Prélude à l’Après Midi d’un Faune
Opening to measure 5 & measure 21 – 31
Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s Dream – Scherzo
measure 338 (2 Before [P]) to end
Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals: Voliere
Ravel: Daphnis and Cloe, Suite 2
Oboe
Solo: Mozart Concerto for Oboe
First movement
Excerpts:
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
1st and 3rd movements
Stravinsky: Pulcinella
Variation 1A (no repeat)
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Act II – No. 10
Measures 1–19
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Tuileries
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Theme (2nd oboe part)
Optional (English Horn)
Rossini: William Tell Overture
Andantino (measure 176)
Rehearsal 32 to 3 measures after rehearsal 38
Clarinet
Solo: Mozart Concerto for Clarinet
First movement exposition
OR
Rondo – 3rd movement
Excerpts:
Beethoven: Symphonie No. 6 – 1st movement
Measure 476 to 491
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 – 2nd movement
Measure 69 to 77
Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s Dream - Scherzo
Opening to B
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol – 3rd movement
11 measures after K to end
Brahms: Symphony No. 3 – 2nd movement
Opening solo
Kodaly: Dances of Galanta
1 measure after REH 30 to end of bar at REH 65
Bassoon
Solo: Mozart Concerto for Bassoon in B-flat Major, K. 191
First movement
Excerpts:
Mozart: Marriage of Figaro – Overture
Measure 101 to 123 and Measure 139 to 171
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 – 2nd movement
Measure 274 to end
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade – 2nd movement
Opening solo and cadenzas
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 – 1st movement
Opening to measure 12
Ravel: Bolero