Scoring: piccolo, 3 flutes (1 doubling as piccolo 2), 3 oboes, English horn (doubling as oboe 4), 4 clarinets (1 in D, 1 in [B.sup.[flat]], 2 in A), bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, 1
contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 4 trombones, 1 bass tuba, harp, celesta, percussion, strings.
It is twenty-one minutes in length and is scored for two flutes (piccolo and alto flute), two oboes, two clarinets (bass clarinets), two bassoons (
contrabassoon), three horns, two trumpets, two trombones, percussion (timpani, four Chinese tom-toms, Small Peking Opera gong, small tambourine, marimba, large temple block, small suspended cymbal, guiro, Japanese woodblock, slapstick, large tam-tam, large Chinese bass drum), harp, piano, and strings.
As the creation of man approaches, the orchestra gives us a new world out of chaos where the orchestra, whether it be the lightness of violins, sweetness of flutes or power of the
contrabassoon, brings to life the diversity of nature from eagles and whales to lions and tigers.
All right, it was too optimistic of him to expect the timpani not to drown out the low F, despite his assigning the weight of two bassoons and a
contrabassoon to it, and maybe no degree of authenticity in performance can find the solution to that.
The orchestration includes flute, oboe, English horn, B& clarinet, bassoon,
contrabassoon, two horns, two trumpets, two trombones, two violins I and II, two violas, two celli, and two contrabasses.
Concerto for
Contrabassoon: Reduction for
Contrabassoon and Piano.
And it was a nice idea to let London catch up with John Woolrich's 2009
contrabassoon concerto Falling Down - with its dedicatee, the CBSO's Margaret Cookhorn, easily commanding this huge venue.
The Index was a remarkable monument to Langwill's lifelong interest in the subject and had its origins in his researches into the history of the bassoon (which itself culminated in The bassoon and
contrabassoon (1965), the first full-length study devoted to the instrument in any language).
clarinets, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, 2 alto saxophones, tenor saxophone, 2 baritone saxophones, 2 bassoons, and
contrabassoon. $45.
WE will be hearing what might be the first-ever concerto for
Contrabassoon to be performed at the BBC Proms on Sunday, when Margaret Cookhorn reprises her unforgettable premiere of John Woolrich's Falling Down with the CBSO at Symphony Hall in July 2009.
dissatisfied with the
contrabassoon as they knew it." Ravel's joke in l'Heure espagnole is at the end of the opera, a low D for sarrusophone, with a simultaneous marking in the voice part: "Le contrebasson [sic] termine."
Vivaldi wrote several (but so he did for virtually every instrument in existence), Mozart (the greatest, though he probably dashed it off with scarcely a thought), Weber, not many others - though John Woolrich's Falling Down for
contrabassoon is a wonderful very recent addition to the repertoire.
