SAN ANTONIO PHILHARMONIC

Section Violin I Audition Repertoire

Solo repertoire:
Mozart: Concerto No. 3, 4, or 5, 1st movement (to the recap, with cadenza)

Romantic or 20th-century concerto, 1st movement (no cadenza necessary)

Bach: one movement from an unaccompanied sonata or partita

First violin excerpts:
Bach: St. Matthew Passion, Erbarme dich – beginning to letter A

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, 3rd movement – mm. 99–114

Brahms: Symphony No. 4, 1st movement – beginning to m. 53; 4th movement – mm. 33–81

Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite (original 13-instrument version) – rehearsal # 35 to rehearsal # 40

Mahler: Symphony No. 5, 4th movement (Adagietto) – beginning to rehearsal # 2

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Scherzo – beginning to 7 bars after letter D

Mozart: Symphony No. 39, 1st movement – mm. 1–142 (to repeat sign)

Schumann: Symphony No. 2, 2nd movement (Scherzo) – beginning to Trio I

Strauss: Don Juan – beginning to 13 after [C]

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring – rehearsal # 72 to rehearsal # 79