The Bass Clarinettist's Workbook
Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D Major - "The Titan"
(from The Clarinet - Journal of the International Clarinet Association, September 2006
Shostakovich Violin Concerto op. 99
Strauss Don Quixote, op. 35
Notes and Excerpts (Theme Only)
Stravinskii Le Sacre du Printemps
Stravinsky Capriccio
Stravinsky Firebird Complete Ballet
Stravinsky Petrouchka
Stravinsky Scherzo fantastique.doc
Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony
Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Complete Ballet
Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 6
Verdi Aida Aria: Amneris & Radames
Wagner Die Walkure Act 3, Scene 1
Wagner Gotterdammerung Vorspiel
Wagner Sigfried's Rhine Journey
Wagner Tristan und Isolde Act 2 Scene 3
Wagner Tristan und Isolde Prelude & Libbestod
Walton Facade
Barber Second Suite
Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
Bartok Dance Suite
Bartok Miraculous Mandarin
Bartok Second Suite
Berg Violin Concerto
Copland Third Symphony
Dukas La Peri
Dukas Sorcerer's Apprentice
Dvorak Noon Day Witch
Dvorak Scherzo Cappricioso
Franck - Symphony in D minor
Gershwin American in Paris
Gershwin Piano Concerto
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Grofe Grand Canyon Suite:
Painted Desert & On The Trail
Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis
Holst The Planets
Khatchaturian Piano Concerto
Mahler 1
Mahler 2
Mahler 3
Mahler 4
Mahler 5
Mahler 6
Mahler 7
Mahler 8
Mahler 9
Mahler 10 (Deryck Cooke)
Meyerbeer Les Huguenots
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
Prokoviev Symphony No. 5
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2
Ravel Daphnis and Chloe
Ravel La Valse
Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Ravel Menuet Antique
Ravel Symphonie Espagnole
Respighi I Pini Di Roma
Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire
Schuman, William Symphony No. 3
Shostakovich 4
Shostakovich 6
Shostakovich 7
Shostakovich 8
Shostakovich Violin cto
Strauss, R Also Sprach Zarathustra
Strauss, R Don Quixote
Strauss, R Ein Heldenleben
Strauss, R Symph Domestica
Strauss, R Till Eulenspiegel
Strauss, R Tod und Verklarung
List of Excerpts for Orchestral Bass Clarinet Annotated By David Bourque
If you are interested in purchasing any of the annotated excerpts below, please contact David HERE.
You will find an article discussing bass clarinet excerpts (co-written by J.Lawrie Bloom of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and David Bourque) HERE.
During his 30 year career, David has played the major repertoire for bass clarinet many times.
In The Bass Clarinettist's Workbook, David describes in detail the tricks and tips that he used in performing this repertoire with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
The style and content of these notes are modelled after the seminal volume on clarinet excerpts by the late Peter Hadcock.