A Bassoon Circus
“The work, fanciful and accessible, is very well written, filled with comic effects, and everyone has fun, including musicians.”
– La Presse+, Caroline Rodgers
A Bassoon Circus is a concertino for solo bassoon and orchestra staged as a instrumental theatre. Each of its seven short movements evokes a different kind of circus act, starring the soloist. The work is a tribute to the comic dimension of Spike Jones’s universe.
I – The Ringmaster
II – The Lion Tamer
III – The Tightrope Walker
IV – The Magician
V – The Human Cannonball
VI – The Clown
VII – The Strongman
Instrumentation: solo bassoon / 2221 / 2200 / 1 timp / 1 perc / strings
Duration: 16 minutes
Commissioned by the Laval Symphony Orchestra, their artistic director Alain Trudel and the bassoonist Michel Bettez. Dedicated to Alain Trudel and Michel Bettez.
Premiere: March 15th, 2017, by theLaval Symphony Orchestra and the conductor Alain Trudel and the bassoonist Michel Bettez, at the Salle André Mathieu, in Laval, QC, Canada.
Interview with Maxime Goulet about A Basson Circus
- March, 15, 2017 | Laval Symphony Orchestra, Alain Trudel and Michel Bettez | Salle André Mathieu, Laval, QC, Canada (premiere)