Cantilena has a song-like quality which the performer should try to convey, while the Rigadoon is a moderately fast dance movement, both arranged here together for contra clarinet with
Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889) was widely regarded as the Paganini of the double bass and was one of the first champions of the instrument. Though he composed a wide range of music, from chamber music to
Already a long-standing rite of passage in the contrabassoon repertoire, Dorff has revisited and adapted In a Deep Funk for solo bass clarinet, for Barbara Haney to premiere at the 2014 ICA