Name: Fantasies for Bassoon
Price: 17.5 USD
Availability: BackOrder

Listen on Presto Music. Free thirty day trial. Find out more.

the most substantial music comes in the transcription of Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata...It would be foolish to expect the bassoon to offer the emotional depth and richness of tone that can be... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 26th Sep 2011
Catalogue No: CHAN10703
Label: Chandos
Length: 66 minutes

Purchase product

Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

This release includes a digital booklet

Chandos - 50% off downloads

Special offer ends: 14/05/2025

Schubert: Sonata in A minor 'Arpeggione', D821

Work length24:36

$6.00

$5.85

$7.20

Karen Geoghegan, Philip Edward Fisher
Recorded: 11, 12 April 2011
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

I. Allegro moderato

Track length12:02

$3.00

$2.60

$3.20

II. Adagio

Track length3:45

$1.00

$1.30

$1.60

III. Allegretto

Track length8:49

$2.00

$1.95

$2.40

Rachmaninoff: 14 Songs, Op. 34: XIV. Vocalise (Arr. for Bassoon and Piano)

Work length6:35

$1.00

$1.30

$1.60

Karen Geoghegan, Philip Edward Fisher
Recorded: 11, 12 April 2011
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

Schreck: Bassoon Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 9

Work length15:56

$3.00

$3.90

$4.80

Karen Geoghegan, Philip Edward Fisher
Recorded: 11, 12 April 2011
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

I. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length5:51

$1.00

$1.30

$1.60

II. Largo

Track length4:38

$1.00

$1.30

$1.60

III. Allegro - Più mosso

Track length5:27

$1.00

$1.30

$1.60

Spohr: Sonata concertante, Op. 115: II. Adagio (Arr. for Bassoon and Piano)

Work length5:59

$1.00

$1.30

$1.60

Karen Geoghegan, Philip Edward Fisher
Recorded: 11, 12 April 2011
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

Elgar: Salut d'amour, Op. 12

Work length3:00

$1.00

$1.30

$1.60

Karen Geoghegan, Philip Edward Fisher
Recorded: 11, 12 April 2011
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 73

Work length10:29

$3.00

$3.90

$4.80

Karen Geoghegan, Philip Edward Fisher
Recorded: 11, 12 April 2011
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

I. Zart und mir Ausdruck

Track length2:48

$1.00

$1.30

$1.60

II. Lebhaft, leicht

Track length3:29

$1.00

$1.30

$1.60

III. Rasch und mir Feuer

Track length4:12

$1.00

$1.30

$1.60

About
Reviews
Explore

About

Chandos signed Karen Geoghegan as an exclusive artist in 2007 following her appearance on BBC TV’s Classical Star programme. This is her fifth recording with the label, and the expressive maturity and sensitivity of her playing have quickly cemented her status as a rising star, Gramophone writing: ‘Name five internationally famous bassoon soloists. Archie Camden, Gwydion Brooke and, er, that’s it. Except I think we shall soon be adding the name of Karen Geoghegan to the roll call.’

On this disc, she is accompanied by Philip Edward Fisher in works by some of the greatest composers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Schubert, Schumann, Spohr, Rachmaninoff, and Elgar. Yet, with a single exception, namely the Sonata in E flat by Gustav Schreck, none of the works recorded here were originally composed for the bassoon.

One of Rachmaninoff’s best-loved short pieces, the Vocalise was written for wordless voice and piano. Demonstrating the capacities of the voice as a pure instrument, this work is a prime example of the power of melody without the need for words. In this arrangement, the bassoon takes on the role of ‘wordless voice’, which shows off the instrument’s great lyrical qualities to perfection, as does Elgar’s Salut d’amour.

Schumann’s Fantasiestücke was originally composed for clarinet and piano, its three pieces played without a break, with each subsequent piece taking up and developing melodic ideas from the preceding one. The Sonata in A minor, D 821 by Schubert, which remained unpublished and unperformed for decades after his death, is an emotionally complex work, its moods moving from deep melancholy to excited ebullience.

Reviews

February 2012

the most substantial music comes in the transcription of Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata...It would be foolish to expect the bassoon to offer the emotional depth and richness of tone that can be accommodated on a string instrument, but Karen Geoghegan certainly convinces with the melancholic hue of the first movement.

December 2011

Geoghegan is probably the best advocate the instrument could have: even though parts of the 'Arpeggione' Sonata (usually heard on cello or viola) don't quite work on the bassoon, as the ear adjusts her exemplary musicianship comes through and triumphs...There's a wonderfully natural quality to Geoghegan's phrasing and expression - especially in the Schumann - and she is partnered adeptly at all times by Philip Edward Fisher.

January 2012

There is no clowning here. If anything, the bassoon lends a pleasant dolefulness to the music played on this CD...Even the cello...is not as consistently mellow as a bassoon, when it is played by a musician on Geoghegan's level.

Special offer. Fantasies for Bassoon

Purchase product

CD

Downloads

Contents

Download queue