VOCALISE: Music for Bassoon and Piano [CD de audio] Massimo Data, Piero Barbareschi and Vocalise

Works by Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Alessandro Longo, Sergei Rachmaninov, Astor Piazzolla, Gabriel Pierné and Maurice Ravel - The bassoon, a member of the lower-sounding wind family, is a surprisingly versatile instrument endowed with great expressiveness, ranging from brilliant and even comic flashes, to elegiac, melancholic and painful outpourings. Unfortunately, few powerful works have been written for solo bassoon in the history of music, so this disc presents a wide selection of delightful transcriptions of famous themes conceived for other instruments, such as Robert Schumann's Fantasiestücke op.73 ( originally intended for clarinet and piano), a Lied ohne Worte by Felix Mendelssohn, Vocalise by Sergei Rachmaninov, an original piece by Gabriel Pierné, the moving Pavane pour une infante défunte by Maurice Ravel and two entertaining tangos by Astor Piazzolla. Masterfully performed by Massimo Data, one of the most outstanding Italian bassoonists today, this album allows you to appreciate the full range of nuances and expressiveness of this magnificent instrument that is still too underrated. Piero Barbareschi, piano