Standard Orchestral Excerpts for Bassoon

• Béla Bartók : Concerto for Orchestra; the second movement features woodwind instruments in pairs, beginning with the bassoons, and the recapitulation of their duet adds a third instrument playing a staccato counter-melody.
• Ludwig van Beethoven : Symphony 4 in B flat major, Symphony 9 in D minor, last movement
• Hector Berlioz : Symphonie Fantastique (In the fourth movement, there are several solo and tutti bassoon-featuring passages. This piece calls for four bassoons.)
• Paul Dukas : The Sorcerer's Apprentice, widely recognized as used in the movie Fantasia
• Edvard Grieg : In the Hall of the Mountain King
• Carl Orff : Carmina Burana
• Sergei Prokofiev : Peter and the Wolf (possibly the most-recognized bassoon theme, the part of the grandfather)
• Maurice Ravel : Rapsodie Espagnole (features a fast, lengthy dual cadenza at the end of the first movement), Boléro (the bassoon has a high descending solo passage near the beginning), Piano Concerto in G Major
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov : Scheherazade, second movement
• Dmitri Shostakovich : several symphonies including #1, 4, 5 : 8, & 9, Symphony 5 in Eb major
• Igor Stravinsky : The Rite of Spring (opens with a famously unorthodox bassoon solo), lullaby from The Firebird
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky : Symphony 4 in F minor, Symphony 5 in E minor, Symphony 6 in B minor

Standard Concerti for Bassoon

Baroque

• Antonio Vivaldi wrote 37 concerti for bassoon
• Georg Philipp Telemann Sonata in F minor

Classical

• Johann Christian Bach, Bassoon Concerto in B flat, Bassoon Concerto in E-flat major
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Bassoon Concerto in F, W75
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Bassoon Concerto in B flat, K191
• Carl Stamitz, Bassoon Concerto in F Major
• Johann Baptist Vanhal, Bassoon in C Major, Concerto in F Major for two bassoons and orchestra

Romantic

• Carl Maria von Weber, Andante e rondo ungarese in C minor, op. 35; Bassoon Concerto in F, op. 75
• Camille Saint-Saëns, Sonata for bassoon and piano in G Major, op. 168

Contemporary

• Luciano Berio, Sequenza XII for Bassoon (1995)
• Edward Elgar, Romance for Bassoon and Orchestra, op. 62
• Alvin Etler, Sonata for Bassoon and Piano
• Hindemith, Sonata for Bassoon and Piano (1938)
• Gordon Jacob, Concerto for Bassoon, Strings and Percussion, Four Sketches for Bassoon, Partita for Bassoon
• Francesco Mignone, Double Bassoon Sonata, 16 valses for Bassoon
• Willson Osborne, Rhapsody for Bassoon
• John Steinmetz, Sonata for Bassoon and Piano
• Richard Strauss, Duet Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon with strings and harp (1948)
• John Williams, The Five Sacred Trees: Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra (1997)