Bassoon duo
SKU:
P2.40010
Composed by
Reed Hanna. Chamber
music. Published by
Potenza Music (P2.40010).
Little Suite is
a short work for bassoon
and bass clarinet that I
wrote in 2013-2014 as a
gift for my friends
Shannon Lowe (bassoon)
and Peter Geldrich
(clarinet). The movements
are written in three
distinct musical styles:
the first movement is
inspired by clarinet
lines in the opening
section of Stravinsky's
Symphonies of Wind
Instruments, and the
second movement by the
Passacaglia in Krzysztof
Penderecki's Symphony No.
3. The third movement is
an original dance tune
that I sometimes jokingly
like to refer to as a 3/4
rhumba. The version for
two bassoons came as an
afterthought after I had
performed the piece for
the first time with a
bass clarinetist. The two
bassoon iteration not all
that different from the
original, but sounds
remarkably different
because of the same
instrumental timbre. I
have since wondered what
the piece would sound
like if the second part
were played on a cello,
or the first part (with
some obvious octave
transpositions) on a
viola...