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ALEX TAYLOR: Bassoon Concerto

Alex Taylor’s ‘Bassoon Concerto’ was commissioned by the Auckland Chamber Orchestra, which premiered it under the baton of Peter Scholes in 2014 (https://bit.ly/2HQP4D4).

The performance seen in this Resound film from the 2016 NZ Composer Sessions retains the work’s original bassoonist, the venerable Ben Hoadley, backed now by the Hamish McKeich-led New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

The composer writes, “I cannot speak for all listeners, but for me the bassoon is one of the most personal of all instruments. It speaks not grandly or with perfect eloquence but with an immediacy and intimacy that is quite special.”

He continues, “The work consists of three slow movements interrupted by two tiny slivers of energetic activity, ruptures in a continuous, static texture. There is some kind of journey here, albeit simply expressed and slow in its unfolding. The music has ended up following its own course, offering not solutions or even reflections, but only a singular focus, a line, a channel. Therefore it has a certain kind of impermeability, and requires a deal of faith and patience in the single path, with all its bends and diversions.”

Audio recorded by RNZ Concert. Resound is funded by NZ On Air.


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