First round, maximum 15 minutes

Bassoon
a) Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita BWV 1013 – 1. Allemande, 2. Corrente
b) Gotthard Odermatt: Miniaturen – 1. Fantasie, 2. Presto, 4. Arabeske, 5. Finale

Clarinet
a) François Devienne: first and second movement from one of the sonatas
b) Béla Kovács: Hommage à Richard Strauss

Oboe
a) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: one of the two arias „Sperai vicino” (KV 368) or „Ah se in ciel, benigne stelle” (KV 538) – adaptation of the vocal part for oboe and piano, e.g. Ed. Bärenreiter
b) Alyssa Morris: Collision Etudes – I. „Summertime” or III. „Simson Weed”

Second round, maximum 30 minutes

(please ensure that the total length of the selected works does not exceed 30 minutes)

Bassoon
a) one of the following works for bassoon solo:
Kalevi Aho: Solo V für Fagott
Milica Djordjević: Nailing clouds
Dai Fujikura: Calling
Heinz Holliger: Klaus-Ur
Liza Lim: Axis Mundi
Isang Yun: Monolog
b) François Devienne: from Op. 24 – Sonata No. 2 in G major, or Sonata No. 3 in F major, or Sonata No. 5 in G minor
c) Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda: Morceau de Salon Op. 230

Clarinet
a) one first movement from the two sonatas by Johannes Brahms
b) one of the following works:
Giuseppe Verdi / Luigi Bassi, Alamiro Giampieri: Rigoletto – Fantasia da concerto
Giuseppe Verdi / Domenico Lovreglio: La Traviata – Fantasia da concerto
c) one of the following works for clarinet solo:
Edison Denisov: Sonate
Bruno Mantovani: Bug
Jörg Widmann: Three Shadow Dances
Michael Jarrell: Assonances
Karel Husa: 3 Studies
Christoph Schneider: Konstrukt
Kaija Saariaho: Duft

Oboe
a) one of the following contemporary solo pieces for oboe:
Toshio Hosokawa: Three Essays
Dieter Mack: Late Song
Heinz Holliger: Fünf kleine Stücke
Bernd Franke: Point of no return
Kalevi Aho: Solo IX
Frédéric Durieux: In den Lüften
Elliott Carter: Inner Song
Liza Lim: Gyfu
Isang Yun: Piri
Cathy Milliken: Espirar
Karlheinz Stockhausen: In Freundschaft
Violeta Dinescu: Cime lointaine
b) Thomas Vincent: Six Sonatas for Oboe and Bc, op. 1 – one of the six sonatas
c) Théodore Lalliet: Prélude et Variations sur le carnaval de Venise for oboe and piano

Third round, maximum 30 minutes

Bassoon
a) André Jolivet: Concerto
b) Iván Eröd: Sonata „Milanese”

Clarinet
a) Jean Françaix: Tema con variazioni
b) Mieczysław Weinberg: Sonate

Oboe
a) Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra – first and second movement
b) Bohuslav Martinů: Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra

Final, prize winners’ concert with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker

Bassoon
Carl Maria von Weber: Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra in F major Op. 75 – the work must be performed from memory

Clarinet
Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 op. 73 in F minor – the work must be performed from memory

Oboe
Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda: Concertino for Oboe and Orchestra in F major op. 110 – the work must be performed from memory