New York Phil Archives
So there's been quite a few requests for bowings or fingering to this or that orchestral piece for auditions or whatnot and through it all I'd completely forgotten about a decent source for new and old players. The New York Philharmonic Archives!
http://archives.nyphil.org/index
While you cannot print the music on their site, you can download a particular piece from imslp.org and copy the bowing and fingerings.
There was a request a short while back for Dvorak's 9th. The person wanted the fingering and bowing for the entire piece. The most logical response to such a request will almost always try to make the person realize that those things are both a personal choice as well as generally straightforward and to try coaxing the person to be a bit more realistic to pin down exactly what they're having issues with. It's a teacher thing.
Unlike solos, orchestral music really isn't all that personal and really does not have too many liberties with bowing and where you'd logically be on the fingerboard. Dvorak New World Symphony for example, it's all pretty upfront what you see in your sheet music. However another piece like, Mahler's 4th can go a few ways and have seen the solos in their played many ways, always with the same goal. Same goes for Brahms 1st. You probably won't be playing two measures per bow as is commonly seen in the sheet music.
As a section leader or concertmaster, you can change things to better suit your section or to make a particular passage flow in a more logical way. I'm unsure if the person whom made the request ever fully realized this or what happened since they never did respond to anybody, but know that their are tools to help get a better understanding how something should be bowed, phrases, etc.
It's not definitive to how your section should play particular passages and such, but can provide a really helpful source for those times you simply cannot make what's suggested actually work and sound good.
Hopefully this proves helpful to somebody with the new concert season starting up soon.
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