2023 Instrumentation

Shostakovich Symphony #5

2 flutes and piccolo
2 oboes
2 clarinets and E♭ clarinet
2 bassoons and contrabassoon
4 horns
3 B♭ trumpets
3 trombones
tuba
timpani
snare drum
triangle
cymbals
bass drum
tam-tam
glockenspiel
xylophone
2 harps (one part)
piano
celesta
violins I, II
violas
celli
double basses

Walton Symphony #1

2 flutes (2nd+picc)
2 oboe
2 clarinets
2 bassoon
4 horn
3 trumpets
3 trombone
tuba
2 timpani
2 perc
violins I, II
violas
celli
double basses

Tchaikovsky Symphony #6 (Pathetique)

3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo)
2 oboes
2 clarinets (in A)
2 bassoons
Brass
4 horns
2 trumpets
3 trombones
1 tuba
Percussion
timpani
bass drum
cymbals
tam-tam (ad libitum)
Strings
violins I, II
violas
cellos
double basses

Berlioz Symphony Fantastique

2 flutes (one doubling piccolo)
2 oboes (one doubling cor anglais) (in movement III, the first oboist plays briefly offstage)
2 clarinets (one doubling E♭ clarinet)
4 bassoons
Brass
4 horns
2 cornets
2 trumpets
3 trombones
2 ophicleides (modern performances use tubas)

Percussion
4 timpani (played by four players)
cymbals
snare drum (used in movement IV)
bass drum
bells in C and G

violins I, II
violas
cellos
double basses
2 harps (used in movement II)

Mahler Symphony #6 (Tragic)

piccolo (used only in movement 4)
4 flutes (3rd and 4th doubling 2nd and 3rd piccolos)
4 oboes (3rd and 4th doubling 2nd and 3rd cor anglais; 2nd cor anglais used only in Scherzo)
cor anglais (used only in movement 4)
E♭ clarinet (doubling 4th clarinet)
3 B♭ and A clarinets
bass clarinet
4 bassoons (4th used only in movement 4)
contrabassoon
Brass
8 horns
6 trumpets (5th and 6th used only in movement 4)
4 trombones (4th used only in movement 4)
tuba
Keyboards
celesta
Percussion
6 timpani (two players)
bass drum
snare drum (used in movements 1 and 4)
cymbals
triangle
cowbells (offstage in movements 1 and 4, onstage in Andante)
hammer (see description below)
tam-tam
rute
deep, untuned bells (used only in movement 4, offstage)
glockenspiel
xylophone
violins I, II
violas
celli
double basses
2 harps