Bass trombone audition excerpts: "The Miraculous Mandarin", by Bela Bartok

Part of my series of the most common orchestral/opera excerpts requested for auditions. Filmed in Opera North's Howard Assembly Room (Leeds, UK) these videos have been created as a study aid for my students at the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK), but I am happy for them to be shared with anyone who finds them useful.

[@salmonidae3667]

The first part really sounds like a bunch of cars honking at each other in a busy city, which is what Bartok intended to represent! Amazing interpretation of the Trombone section.

[@ChristianJonesBasstrombone]

Absolutely! It's such clever and evocative scoring from Bartok :)