Cello: Orchestral Excerpt List

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Orchestral Excerpt List

Cello
This booklet contains excerpts of varying standards. Please
pick the excerpt(s) you are most comfortable with and prepare
to the best of your ability.

If you are preparing for entry into Junior Orchestra then please
play ONE excerpt.

If you are preparing for entry into Senior or Symphony


Orchestra then please play TWO excerpts.

We would encourage you to play these excerpts to your tutor


prior to your audition.

Reproduced for NYOS Audition Purposes Only


Orchestral Excerpts – Cello

For NYOS Audition Purposes Only

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - 1st Mvt., pick up to Bars 115-138

Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite – Trepak, Bars 33-48


Orchestral Excerpts – Cello

For NYOS Audition Purposes Only

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 – 2nd Mvt., Bars 21 - 42


Orchestral Excerpts – Cello

For NYOS Audition Purposes Only

Elgar: Enigma Variations - Variation 12 (top line)


Orchestral Excerpts – Cello

For NYOS Audition Purposes Only

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Figure C-D (top line)


Orchestral Excerpts – Cello

For NYOS Audition Purposes Only

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - 2nd Mvt., Bars 1-10, 48-59, AND 97-106
Orchestral Excerpts – Cello

For NYOS Audition Purposes Only

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 - 2nd Mvt., Bars 1-16

Strauss: Ein Heldenleben - Bars 1-16


Orchestral Excerpts – Cello

For NYOS Audition Purposes Only

Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra - 5th Mvt., Bars 292-317


Orchestral Excerpts – Cello

For NYOS Audition Purposes Only

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 - 2nd Mvt., Figure 71-5 before 74


Orchestral Excerpts – Cello

For NYOS Audition Purposes Only

Brahms: Haydn Variations - Variation 5, Bars 226-263 (top line)


Orchestral Excerpts – Cello

For NYOS Audition Purposes Only


Debussy: La Mer - Figure 9 (top line)

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