Bassoon Quintet (Waterhouse)
Bassoon Quintet is the abbreviation for a composition by Graham Waterhouse , which was premiered in 2003. Waterhouse wrote the quintet for bassoon and string quartet in 2003 for bassoonist Lyndon Watts.
history
Waterhouse composed the bassoon quintet for a concert of his own works in Gasteig on October 5, 2003. Chamber music for up to ten players, conducted by Yaron Traub , was performed in the small concert hall, including the piccolo quintet . Lyndon Watts , first bassoonist in the Munich Philharmonic , played the bassoon. The string quartet was formed by Odette Couch, Kirsty Hilton, Isabel Charisius and the composer as cellist.
A revised version was performed on March 14, 2011 in a chamber concert of the Bavarian Tonkünstlerverband. The soloist was again Watts, who also played the world premiere of Bernd Redmann 's Migrant for bassoon and string quartet and Jörg Duda's first Finnish quartet . The strings were the members of the Munich Philharmonic Clément Courtin, Namiko Fuse and Konstantin Sellheim.
On November 11, 2012, the quintet was performed in a concert for the composer's 50th birthday organized by Zimmermann Musikverlag . The quintet will later be published by this publisher.
music
As in his Cello Concerto (1995), Waterhouse chooses the following sequence of movements: slow introduction - fast - slow - fast. The introduction introduces characteristic intervals and the bassoon's wide ambitus of three and a half octaves and sets the tone for the predominantly lyrical attitude of the work. Restless energy determines the Allegro movement, a four-tone motif is tossed back and forth between cello and bassoon, later figuration dominates the solo part.
The slow movement takes up memories of the composer's liturgical Armenian chant, which he experienced around Easter 1996 in the Armenian part of Jerusalem . He describes: "A" wandering "line that always returns, and the resonance of the massive, ancient stone wall is reflected in the spelling when fragments of the song are passed back and forth from instrument to instrument."
The last movement has more of a symphonic aspect. The strings and bassoon play arpeggio motifs in empty fifths and major sixths . The introductory intervals appear again in the strings. A virtuoso coda leads to the end.
Web links
- Bassoon Quintet on the Graham Waterhouse website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Composers in Bavaria / Chamber concert of the Tonkünstlerverband . Graham Waterhouse. 2011. Retrieved November 11, 2012.
- ↑ Graham Waterhouse / birthday concert / music publisher Zimmermann . Music publisher Zimmermann. 2012. Archived from the original on February 27, 2014. Retrieved on November 11, 2012.
- ↑ a b Bassoon Quintet . Graham Waterhouse. 2011. Retrieved November 11, 2012.
- ^ Graham Waterhouse Chamber Concert . Gasteig ,, October 5, 2003. (Accessed December 20, 2010.).