Famous orchestral pieces with saxophone solos
Boléro - Maurice Ravel
Pictures at an Exhibition - Modest Mussorgsky/Maurice Ravel
L'Arlésienne - Georges Bizet
Romeo and Juliet - Sergei Prokofiev
Lieutenant Kijé - Sergei Prokofiev
Alexander Nevsky - Sergei Prokofiev
Symphonic Dances - Sergei Rachmaninoff
La création du monde - Darius Milhaud
Symphony No. 6 - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 9 - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Job: A Masque for Dancing - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Suite for Variety Orchestra - Dmitri Shostakovich
Suite No. 1 - Dmitri Shostakovich
Suite No. 2 - Dmitri Shostakovich
The Golden Age - Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphonia Domestica - Richard Strauss
Neues vom Tage - Paul Hindemith
Háry János - Zoltán Kodály
Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin
An American in Paris - George Gershwin
Sinfonia da Requiem - Benjamin Britten
Billy Budd - Benjamin Britten
Violin Concerto - Alban Berg
Lulu - Alban Berg
Der Wien - Alban Berg
Symphony No. 4 - Charles Ives
Belshazzar's Feast - William Walton
The Wooden Prince - Béla Bartók
City Noir - John Adams
West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein
On the Waterfront - Leonard Bernstein
Sylvia - Léo Delibes
Werther - Jules Massenet
Hérodiade - Jules Massenet
Symphony No. 1 - Aaron Copland
Piano Concerto - Aaron Copland
Turandot - Giacomo Puccini
Great Post. This list is for anyone that ever tells you that the saxophone is not a valid orcestral (unfortunately, there are people who think that way). As you can see, almost every significant composer of the 20th century included the saxophone in their orchestral works.
If you are looking to study these excerpts, check out the following:
The Orchestral Saxophonist Volume 1
The Orchestral Saxophonist Volume 2
Both by Bruce Ronkin
They are excellent compilations of the important orchestral excerpts for the saxophone.
