Hans Werner Henze: Neue Volkslieder und Hirtengesänge (1983-1996)

00:00 - I. Pastorale: Moderato
02:48 - II. Morgenlied: Allegretto moderato
03:48 - III. Ballade: Con commodo
06:48 - IV. Tanz: Con commodo
08:13 - V. Rezitativ: Con pathos
08:48 - VI. Abendlied: Allegretto misterioso
12:22 - VII. Ausklang: Ländler
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Bassoon: Markus Weidmann
Cello: Claudio Bohórquez
Conductor: Daniel Harding
Guitar: Jürgen Ruck
Violin: Christophe Horák
Viola: Micha Afkham
Year of Recording: 2016
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“The idea for this music [New Folksongs and and Pastorals) is closely related to the period in the 1980s when I was stimulating cultural activities in remote villages in Styria. During this period I collected a number of sketches from Styrian folklore (which I also liked very much), and then composed songs for an amateur theater performance that was given by an artistically ambitious local youth.
From this, and other similar material, I put together these small forms of chamber music in the form of a folk-song while preserving something of the melancholic character and atmosphere of this region, in the manner of a dream or a painful memory." (Composer)
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[@lucpraslan]

An Ab to Bb trill in the 5th bar... didn't Henze talk to any bassonists before composing this work? 😆

[@Bassoonoodles]

mozart wrote Ab to Bb trills for bassoon as well :o)

[@contra_bassoon]

Trill RH2, if it doesn't work then it's a reed problem

[@MCMeru]

Im not a bassoonist- why is that a problem? Is it hard to play?

[@lucpraslan]

@@MCMeru There's a special key you can get on professional-model bassoons that facilitates the Ab to Bb trill, otherwise it's unclear and a very unfulfilling trill.

[@jesusmendezramires4501]

@@lucpraslan Is not that hard, even without that key, you just have to find which alternative trill fingering works on your bassoon