Bartók — Concerto for Orchestra, viola solo (Mvt. III)

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Where this excerpt appears

Standard on every major orchestra principal viola audition
Conservatory graduate audition excerpts list
Summer festival principal-chair auditions
Concert orchestra and civic orchestra principal screens

Panel-ready practice tips

1.This is viola's single most famous orchestral solo — panels know every recording. You cannot play it 'in general,' you are responding to a lineage.
2.The tempo is flexible by convention — but the pulse inside the notes must stay steady. Rubato between notes is acceptable; pulse wobble inside a note is not.
3.The Bartók style demands glissando on specific shifts noted in the score. Omitting them is a stylistic disqualifier at the principal-chair level.
4.Dynamic hairpins are inside every phrase — this is NOT a 'sing the melody' excerpt, it is a 'shape every note' excerpt.
5.The second statement of the theme must differ from the first — panels listen explicitly for interpretive depth across repetition.