Concerto Rustico, Op. 83

Concerto Rustico for bassoon and strings, Op. 83 (2024)
00:00 - I. Pastorale -
04:00 - II. Marche & Musette -
06:56 - III. Elegie -
11:10 - IV. Fantasia
Composer: Geert Van Hoorick - Digital performance using Sibelius 6 and Garritan Personal Orchestra - Feel free to comment. For the most recent version of the score see http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/6... (where you can find parts) and http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Van_Ho... (where the score is for free). This is a modern-classical (i.e. neo-romantic) concerto for bassoon and string orchestra. It’s technically not too demanding and concerning the style and character of the music, it has a lot in common with my English Horn concerto Op. 60. It consists of four movements, all with a pastoral/rural atmosphere: a moderately fast prelude in sonata form (in Dorian mode), a faster march with a musette as middle section, a slow and expressive elegy, and a fantasia with a fast middle section, preceded and followed by a moderately fast intro/epilogue.