{"id":39569,"date":"2024-02-29T15:05:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T14:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/c81de84e-ab04-4bc3-a2a3-5fcc30c4ec4b"},"modified":"2024-02-29T17:41:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T16:41:09","slug":"olav-berg-crusell-weber-bassoon-concertos","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/olav-berg-crusell-weber-bassoon-concertos\/","title":{"rendered":"Olav Berg\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Crusell\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Weber: Bassoon Concertos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Misha Donat\n <\/p>

Published: Thursday, 29 February 2024 at 14:05 PM<\/p>

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Dag Jensen (bassoon); Kammerakademie Potsdam\/Gregor B\u00fchl<\/p>

CPO 555 576-2\u00a0\u00a0 63:29 mins<\/em><\/p>

The 19th-century Finnish composer Bernhard Henrik Crusell was himself a clarinettist, but he wrote the concerto recorded here for his son-in-law Frans Carl Preumayr, who came from a prominent family of bassoon players. It\u2019s somewhat let down by a repetitive polonaise<\/em> finale, but its single-movement form is quite original, and so, too, is the way the soloist first enters, with an elaborate cadenza. The concerto\u2019s centrepiece consists of variations on a theme by the popular opera composer Boieldieu.<\/p>

On a higher level is the concerto by Weber<\/a><\/strong>, with its fine slow movement and witty finale. Weber\u2019s Andante e Rondo ongarese<\/em> is his own arrangement of a piece he originally wrote for viola. There\u2019s nothing particularly Hungarian about the good-natured rondo, though its ending, with a three-octave sweep up the bassoon finishing on a top C, is spectacular.<\/p>