Solo Passages in Orchestral Works Part 1 - Woodwinds

Our end-of-year exam for the subject Score Reading will include random questions about any given orchestral instrument such as its range, technique, history of the instrument, etc. and will ask us to name and/or play (on the piano from memory) any examples of solos for that instrument in orchestral repertoire.

So - here I've started compiling a list, to which I will gradually keep adding more so by the end of the academic year I will have a rich bank of orchestral solo examples to pull out for the exam.

The aim is to come up with a wide range of various solos to avoid the 'black list' examples of common answers such as the violin solos from Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherezade, or the horn solo from the 2nd movement of Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony.

WOODWINDS

PICCOLO
BARTOK - Romanian Folk Dances
SHOSTAKOVICH - Symphonies No.7; No.8 (ii); No.9 (ii)

FLUTE
BACH - St Mathew Passion (aus liebe)
BEETHOVEN - Leonore
DEBUSSY - Prelude to Afternoon of Faun
GRIEG - Peer Gynt Suite No.1 (morning)
HINDEMITH - Symphonic Metamorphosis (andantino)
PROKOFIEV - Peter and the Wolf

ALTO FLUTE
RAVEL - Daphnis et Chloe
STRAVINSKY - Rite of Spring

OBOE
BRAHMS - Violin Concerto (ii)
MAHLER- Symphony No.3 (ii)
RAVEL - Tombeau de Couperin (i,ii,iii,iv)
ROSSINI - La Scala Overture; Silken Ladder Overture
SCHUBERT - Symphony in C (ii)
SHOSTAKOVICH - Symphony No.1 (iii)
STRAUSS, R. - Don Juan

COR ANGLAIS
BERLIOZ - Roman Carnival Overture; Rob Roy Overture
DEBUSSY - La Mer; Nocturnes
FALLA - Three Cornered Hat (Miller's Dance)
FRANCK - Symphony in D (ii)
LISZT - Hungary (largo con duolo)
RESPIGHI - Pines of Rome (iv); Belkis Regina di Saba (i)
RODRIGO - Concerto de Aranjuez (ii)
ROSSINI - William Tell Overture
SIBELIUS - Swan of Tuonela
TCHAIKOVSKY - Iolanta
TCHAIKOVSKY - Suite No.3 For Orchestra (iv - variation VIII)
VERDI - Otello (Willow Song)
WAGNER - Tristan und Isolde (akt iii)

Eb CLARINET
BERLIOZ - Symphonie Fantastique (v)
RAVEL - Bolero
SHOSTAKOVICH - Symphony No.5 (ii)
STRAVINSKY - Rite of Spring

CLARINET
BEETHOVEN - Symphony No.8 (iii)
BERLIOZ - Symphonie Fantastique (ii-Waltz)
BORODIN - Prince Igor (Polovetskaya Plyaska)
BRAHMS - Symphony No.1 (iii)
KODALY - Dances of Galanta
MENDELSSOHN - Hebrides Overture
MOZART - Symphony No.39 (iii)
SCHUBERT - Symphony No.8 "Unfinished" (ii)
TCHAIKOVSKY - Francesca da Rimini
WEBER - Der Freischutz Overture

BASS CLARINET
GROFE - Grand Canyon Suite (iii-On the Trail)
MAHLER - Symphony No. I (i)
SHOSTAKOVICH - Symphony No.7 (ii)

Eb ALTO SAXOPHONE
BIZET - l'Arlesienne Prelude
MUSSORGSKY - Pictures from an Exhibition (ii-il Vecchio Castello)
RACHMANINOFF - Symphonic Dances

Bb TENOR SAXOPHONE
PROKOFIEV - Romeo and Juliet

BASSOON
BEETHOVEN - Symphony No.4 (iv)
DUKAS - The Sorceres Apprentice
ORFF - Carmina Burana (xii)
SHOSTAKOVICH - Symphonies No.7 (i); No.9 (iv, v)

CONTRABASSOON
RAVEL - Mother Goose Suite


Other Intstruments:
Brass
Percussion
Strings








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