Bass Trombone Repertoire List

Solo:

Orchestral excerpts (all Trombone III, except as noted):

Beethoven: Symphony #9
Berlioz: "Hungarian March" from Damnation of Faust
Frank: Symphony in D minor (3rd movement)
Haydn: The Creation (No. 26)
Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite (movement 4)
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (movements 2 & 3)
Respighi: Fountains of Rome (movement 4)
Rossini: Overture to “La Gazza Ladra”
Schumann: Symphony No. 3 (movement 4)
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (#51 – 74, #89 – 90)
Strauss: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (movements 3 & 9)
Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
Wagner: Tannhauser Overture
Wagner: Das Rheingold (Trombone IV part, final 15 measures of opera)

Section excerpts (may be played with RPO Low Brass Section):

Bartok: Miraculous Mandarin Suite (#34 – 36, #69 – 74)
Brahms: Symphonies No. 1 & 4
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8, mvt. 4
Holst: The Planets (“Jupiter”, #17)
Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition (“Gnomus”)
Prokoviev: Lt. Kiji Suite (movement 3)
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 (movement 1)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 (movements 3 & 4)
Verdi: Nabucco Overture (Opening)

Possible Sight Reading from the orchestral and pops repertoire

Applicants should plan on using the music provided by the RPO at the audition.