Bassoon and piano
SKU:
P2.40006
Composed by
James Grant. Solo music,
20th century. Published
by Potenza Music
(P2.40006).
James Grant
says, Slow jazz... What
musical language could
celebrate more
appropriately the
lyrical, sensuous,
expressive character of
the bassoon? The three
Chocolates, in this
version for bassoon and
piano, are torch songs in
the tradition of the
passionate, tuneful
ballads of the American
40s and 50s. The first
two Chocolates, Valentine
and Bittersweet, offer
soulful narratives that
speak to devotion,
poignancy, romance,
uncertainty, longing. The
third Chocolate, Triple
Mocha Indulgence, is
slightly less
soul-searching, more
ebullient, and
progressively becomes
more animated (a sugar
high, perhaps?) right up
to its raucous close.
Chocolates was
commissioned and
premiered in 1998 by
violist Michelle
LaCourse, to whom this
music is dedicated..