LAMENTO for 4 bassoons was composed in 1994 on demand of bassoon player Francis Pollet (artistic director of I Solisti del Vento, Belgian Wind Ensemble). In 2010 the composer wrote a version for
4 BARITONE SAXOPHONES.
It is a short work devided in 3 sections.
In the first section there are polyphonic imitations by the 4 bassoons.
In the second section the solo by the first bassoon, with ornamentations referring to etnical music, is accompanied by a drown in the lower bassoons.
The last section starts from a homophonic texture debouching into a free aleatorical form.
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