ANCE DA FAVOLA - FAIRYTALE REEDS

I present "Fairytale Reeds‘’ from the Colombo Private Collection. The music accompanying the video, performed by me, is Humours from Three Moody Sketch by Zilvinas Smalys.

Hildegard of Bingen O rubor sanguinis Michele Colombo Bassoon

Accompagno questa mia interpretazione del canto meditativo

“O rubor sanguinis” di Hidelgarda von Bingen

con una mia poesia da esso ispirata

 

“Distesa nel colore l’armonia  dispone il suo profumo.

Effluvio impresso nel tempo sospeso di un petalo.

Nel tacer della mente respira il cuore la carezza Divina.”

Alexandre Ouzounoff DOI INTHANON Bassoon on the top n.7 vol.II for solo ...

I continue my climb of the world's highest peaks with my bundle on the trails marked out by Alexandre Ouzounoff  with  ‘Bassoon on the top’.

The destination will be Doi Inthanon, which at 2,565 metres is the highest mountain in Thailand.

It was once called “Crow Pond Peak” because there was a pond at its base where many crows gathered. So, for just over a minute, we fly over the summit of Doi Inthanon like a crow, which in some cultures is associated with the ability to communicate with the supernatural.

Fabricio Gatta DE BUENOS AIRES A MESSINA for Bassoon end cello

Dedicated to my friend Antonino Cicero, an excellent and passionate bassoonist from Messina, the piece “De Buoenos Aires a Messina” by Argentine composer Fabricio Gatta is part of a series of compositions for bassoon dedicated to tango and recorded for the Argentine label Acqua Records on the CD “Un tango para vos,” performed by the author and Cicero, who worked on this successful project.

Antonino, in friendship, gave me the score just when my son Ludovico was in Italy, so we took the opportunity to perform it for my YouTube channel.

Etienne Ozi SONATA V for two bassoons

Leslie Bassett METAMORPHOSES Bassoon Solo Michele Colombo Bassoon

Leslie Bassett was an American composer (1923-2016) of orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, piano and organ works, performed in the Americas, Asia and Europe. He is considered one of the most important American composers in recent history. Born in Hanford, California, Bassett studied piano, trombone, cello and other instruments, then served as a trombonist, composer and arranger in the band of the 13th Armoured Division in the United States and Europe during World War II.  He received the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1966 for his “Variations for Orchestra”, premiered in Rome in 1963 by the RAI Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ferruccio Scaglia.

 

 'Metamorphoses' for solo bassoon was commissioned by friends, colleagues and students of L. Hugh Cooper, professor of bassoon at the University of Michigan, on the occasion of his retirement.

Each of the eight metamorphoses develops from a short fragment taken from orchestral literature for bassoon. (Stravinsky: Rite of Spring, Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, 1 and 8 Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy, Chabrier: Espana)

Themes, pitches and rhythms are substantially modified from the original, yet the sources remain clearly recognisable, giving rise to this new music; tributes rather than quotations.

 The first performance was given by Gwendolyn Rose on 12 February 1991.

 

G.P. Telemann FANTASIA n.10 trascrizione di Marc Kilchenmann per fagott...