Please click here to view the EUYO Audition Excerpts 2022.
Please note: these excerpts can only be used, both in preparation and performance, for the EUYO Auditions 2022.
For those candidates preparing a video audition, you must prepare and record the two mandatory excerpts which are listed below plus up to 4 minutes of your chosen piece. There is a ♪ beside these mandatory excerpts. For all second round auditions (or where there is only one round of audition), you may be asked to perform any of the orchestral excerpts. This is the case for both live and online auditions.
Flute
♪ Ludwig van Beethoven Leonora Overture No. 3, Op. 72b, Introduction and Solo (both excerpts)
Claude Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Maurice Ravel Daphnis et Chloé (SHEET MUSIC NOW INCLUDED! PLEASE RE-DOWNLOAD PDF)
Richard Strauss Salome: Dance of the Seven Veils
Igor Stravinsky Jeu de cartes
Piccolo
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, movt. IV
♪ Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65, movt. II
Oboe
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 3 in D minor, movt. II
Maurice Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
♪ Gioachino Rossini La scala di seta (both excerpts)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36, movt. II
Cor Anglais
Hector Berlioz Le carnaval romain
♪ Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto in G major, movt. II
Clarinet
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 6 in F major ‘Pastoral’, Op. 68, movts. I & II (Bb)
Igor Stravinsky L’Oiseau de feu (A)
♪ Felix Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream (B-flat)
♪ Pyotr Ilyich Tchiakovsky Symphony No. 6 in B minor ‘Pathétique’, Op. 74, movt. I - excerpt b) only (on A)
and either ♪ Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche on E-flat or ♪ Richard Strauss Don Quixote(B-flat) (from beginning to Fig 15) on Bass Clarinet
E-flat Clarinet
Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
♪ Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Igor Stravinsky Oedipus rex
Bass Clarinet
Antonín Dvořák The Noonday Witch (A)
♪ Richard Strauss Don Quixote (B-flat)
Bassoon
♪ Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60, movt. IV
Maurice Ravel Boléro
♪ Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 9 in E-flat major, Op. 70, movt. IV
(a and b if you don't have a Contrabassoon)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B minor ‘Pathétique’, Op. 74, movt. I
Contrabassoon
♪ Maurice Ravel Ma mère l’Oye
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 4 in G major, movt. I
Horn (high)
♪ Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73, movt. II
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 9 in D major, movt. I
Gioachino Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia: Overture
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, movt. I
♪ Richard Strauss Ein Heldenleben
Horn (low)
♪ Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, movt. III
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, movt. I
♪ Richard Strauss Don Quixote: Variation VIII
Igor Stravinsky Le Sacre du printemps: Les Augures Printaniers & Danse de la Terre
Trumpet
Georges Bizet Carmen: Prelude
Benjamin Britten Four Sea Interludes: Sunday Morning
♪ George Gershwin Concerto in F, movt. II
♪ Igor Stravinsky Petroushka (1947): Danse de la ballerine & Valse
Richard Wagner Parsifal: Prelude
Trombone
♪ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem, Tuba mirum
Maurice Ravel L’enfant et les sortilèges
♪ Gioachino Rossini Guillaume Tell: Overture
Camille Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, movt. I
Richard Wagner Tannhäuser: Overture
Bass Trombone
Zoltán Kodály Háry János Suite, movt. IV
Ottorino Respighi Pini di Roma: I pini presso una catacomba
♪ Gioachino Rossini Guillaume Tell: Overture
♪ Robert Schumann Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 97, movt. IV
Richard Wagner Tannhäuser: Overture
Tuba
Hector Berlioz Le roi Lear
♪ Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D major, movt. III
♪ Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 2 in C minor ‘Resurrection’, movt. V
Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 100, movt. I
Ottorino Respighi Fontane di Roma: La fontana di Trevi al meriggio
Timpani and Percussion
Timpani
Béla Bartók Concerto for Orchestra, Intermezzo
♪ Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, movt. I
(NB: If you don't have timps available, record 2 minutes of a piece on snare drum and 2 minutes of a piece on any tuned instrument of your choice)
Snare Drum
Sergei Prokofiev Lieutenant Kijé: Birth of Kijé
♪ Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, movt. IV
Franz von Suppé Pique Dame: Overture
Xylophone
Aram Khachaturian Gayene: Dance of the Rose Maidens
♪ Olivier Messiaen Oiseaux exotiques
Igor Stravinsky L’Oiseau de feu
Harp
Béla Bartók Concerto for Orchestra, Intermezzo
Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, movt. II
♪ Benjamin Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
♪ Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto in G major, movt. I
Piano
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47: movts. I & IV
♪ Igor Stravinsky Petrouchka (1947): Danse russe & Tableau II
Violin
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9, movt. III
♪ Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 9, movt. III
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 39, movt. IV
Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 ‘Classical’, movt. II
♪ Richard Strauss Don Jaun
Viola
Béla Bartók Concerto for Orchestra, movts. IV & V
♪ Felix Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream
♪ Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 5, movt. I
Richard Strauss Don Juan
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, movt. I
Cello
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5, movt. II
Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 2, movt. II
♪ Felix Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream
♪ Richard Strauss Ein Heldenleben
Bass
♪ Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5, movt. III Scherzo and Trio
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9, movt. IV
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 40, movt. I
♪ Richard Strauss Ein Heldenleben