Benoit Guillemant SONATA IV op.3 for two bassoons

Michele Colombo L' APE PEA fiaba musicale per fagotto e narratore testo ...

Vi presento “L’ape Pea”, una piccola ape con un grande problema: la paura.

Paura di volare.

Si tratta di una fiaba musicale per fagotto da me scritta in occasione di una lezione che ho tenuto nel bosco con i bambini dell’asilo. La condivido nel caso qualcuno muoia dalla voglia di ascoltarla.

Hildegard of Bingen SED DIABOLUS

A woman of many talents Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was a prophetess, healer, naturalist, cosmologist, philosopher, artist, poet, musician, linguist and political advisor. But of her she said

‘I am a being without instruction, and I know nothing of the things of the outer world, but it is inwardly in my soul that I am instructed.’ At an early age Hildegard had the first visions that would mark her entire existence. At the age of eight, because of her poor health, she was placed in the Abbey of Disibodenberg by her noble parents. From her earliest childhood she claims to have had a magna pressura that invited her to speak and write under his inspiration, dispensing advice on practical and spiritual life and dealing with the most varied issues. Although she was a laywoman and not a clergywoman, i.e. an illiterate woman who had not been able to study in schools, she inexplicably knew how to write in the spoken and understood Latin of the learned, with technical competence on subjects ranging from natural sciences to medicine, linguistics to literature, philosophy to theology, law to politics. She called this inner voice the Light of the living God. Among the 77 Gregorian chants that St Idelgarda composed is this ‘Sed Diabolus’ dedicated to St Ursula. The text reads ‘But the devil, in his envy, was ashamed that he had left no work of God untouched’. I propose my arrangement for bassoon which, as the choral direction of the songs requires, is a kind of ‘description of the melody in the air’ without temporal scansion of the rhythm of the musical phrase.

Zdeněk Šesták 5 VIRTUOSE INVENTIONEN for solo bassoon Michele Colombo Ba...

Zdeněk Šesták compositore ceco nato nel 1925 . Nel 2006 è stato premiato dalla Fondazione Dagmar e Václav Havel  "Vision 97" per il suo contributo alla filosofia educativa. Nel 2008 ha ricevuto un premio dal Ministero della Cultura ceco per il suo contributo permanente alla cultura ceca nel campo della musica. Nel 2013, insieme a Jiřina Fikejzová, ha ricevuto l'OSA Gold Award alla carriera per la sua ricerca musicologica.

Le  “5 Virtuoso Invention” per fagotto solo sono state composte nel 1966  e dedicate a F. Stenhovi.

Un lavoro importante anche nella durata che è di un quarto d’ora. Infatti lo stesso compositore lascia la liberta all’interprete di non eseguirli tutti in sede di concerto. Credo che pochi, anche tra i fagottisti, avranno appetito a sufficienza per gustarseli sino in fondo, vi invito a spiluccare qua e la perché credo ne valga la pena.

Sergio Romani DIVERTIMENTO n.5 per fagotto solo Michele Colombo Bassoon

Con grande piacere pubblico lo spagnoleggiante “Divertimento n.5” per fagotto solo di Sergio Romani, stimato fagottista italiano, musicista e docente. Anche se ci ha lasciato pochi mesi fa continuo a frequentarlo suonando i suoi brani ed è sempre piacevole stare in sua compagnia. Grazie Sergio!

Se volete ascoltare altri brani di Sergio Romani vi invito nella Playlist del mio canale YouTube a lui dedicata.

Alex Manton MEGAPODE for solo bassoon Michele Colombo Bassoon

Alex Manton, a contemporary Australian composer born in 1981, wrote this piece for bassoon entitled Megapode.

The megapode is a bird with a squat body, small head and large feet, widespread in the Indo-Pacific region. Its main characteristic is that it lays its eggs in deep, protected, hard-to-reach holes and then fills the nest with so much organic material that there is no air passage. In this way the organic material ferments and develops heat. And this heat broods the eggs in the mother's stead. The chicks that are hatched have a finger that is much longer than the others, allowing them to dig a tunnel and go out into the open. 

Manton's piece begins with a repeating rhythmic cell reminiscent of the animal's cry.

Its pacing hints at a dance.

The central, calmer part takes us into the depths of the nest where the eggs are waiting to hatch. The final part picks up the rhythmic cry of the bird and its dance, until it recedes, perceiving only its breath.

Althea Talbot-Howard FANTASIA-LA FOLIA for bassoon Michele Colombo Bassoon

The musical theme de la Folia of Portuguese origin is among the oldest in European music (16th-17th centuries) and has been used over the centuries several times by various composers to create variations or quotations of it. There are more than 150 composers who have dealt with this captivating theme.  The bassoon repertoire also includes among its pieces , compositions dedicated to the theme of “Madness.” In addition to an adaptation of the famous variations by M.Marais, there are the “Variations” by E.Ducreux (1765-1812), the “Variations op. 51” by M.Farago (1924-2016) the “Ten Variations” by bassoonist N.Maler, and in 2023 the “Fantasia-La folia” by Althea Talbot-Howard is added.