Music at Lunchtime Wednesday 11 November 2020, 1.30pm Oakham School Chapel
Ivor Amende bassoon Peter Davis piano Allegro (Sonata in F minor)
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Andante ma adagio (Concerto in B flat major)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Vivace (Sonata in F major)
William Hurlstone (1876-1906)
Next Music at Lunchtime recitals Wednesday 18 November, 1.30pm
Lizzie Beamish trumpet Daniel Kelly & Owen Amende horn Music by Abreu, Saint-SaĂŤns & Strauss
Wednesday 25 November, 1.30pm
Evie Holder soprano Music by Gurney & Quilter
For hygiene safety reasons, please take your programme with you at the end of the concert.
My recital opens with the second movement of Georg Telemann’s Sonata in F minor, which is an energetic composition written in ternary (ABA) form. The A section begins in F minor as the main themes are established and the bassoonist performs fast-moving passages. The B section moves to the key of C minor until F minor is re-established when the initial material returns. Telemann really challenges the bassoonist in this work, with some fast semiquaver runs lasting for up to three bars, as well as decorating the part with a range of ornaments. As with many 18th Century concertos, this slow and expressive Andante ma adagio from Mozart’s only bassoon concerto takes the form of an aria. The accompaniment sings along with the bassoon at times, as well as occasionally finishing some of the soloist’s phrases. In this more intimate movement, the tone colour of the bassoon foreshadows some of the mournful arias Mozart would eventually write for Viennese opera houses. Originally published in 1904, Hurlstone’s Sonata in F major was dedicated to a well-known bassoonist of the time, Edward Dubrucq. This Vivace movement begins in a jaunty 6/8, in the tonic key of F major, and this alternates with more lyrical sections (ma più lento), mostly in the dominant key of C major and in 2/4, only returning to 6/8 for the coda. I find that this work employs less virtuoso writing for the bassoon, and rather exploits the instrument's range of pitch and expression. Ivor Amende Ivor is a Form 5 music scholar who studies the bassoon with Miss Connie Tanner.