PROGRAMME - BASSOON
Category I
age up to 13 (born in 1998 or later);
duration of programme: 5–7 minutes
not less than two compositions from two different periods
(also individual movements)
Category II
age up to 16 (born in 1995 or later);
duration of programme: 8–12 minutes
three contrasting compositions from three different periods
(also individual movements)
Category III
age up to 19 (born in 1992 or later);
duration of programme: 20–30 minutes
not less than two compositions from two different periods
(complete compositions)
Category IV
age up to 24 (born in 1987 or later);
2 stages, total programme duration: 40–50 minutes
1st stage
1.Piece for Bassoon solo
or Sonata for Bassoon and Piano
or Baroque Concerto
(complete compositions)
2.four from the listed Orchestra Excerpts:
M. Ravel: Bolero
D. Shostakovich: 9th Symphony
I. Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps
L. Cherubini: ‘Solo un pianto’, Neris aria from opera Medea
N. Rimsky- Korsakov: Sheherazade
W.A. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, overture
Sheet music for Orchestra Excerpts can be found here.
2nd stage
1.One of the listed Concertos:
F. Berwald: Konzertstück op.2 in F- major
C.M. von Weber: Concerto in F-major
J.N. Hummel: Concerto in F-major
A. Jolivet: Concerto for Bassoon