Jouni Kaipainen: Bassoon Concerto, Op. 74 (2004)

00:00 - I. Andante; commodo, ma triste (to Allegro con spirito)
11:52 - II. Pas de deux: Andante mosso, quasi allegretto
16:52 - III. Largo sognando
23:18 - IV. Presto
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Bassoon: Otto Virtanen
Conductor: Hannu Lintu
Orchestra: Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
Year of Recording: 2006
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"In the Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra op. 74 (2004), the choice of solo instrument led Kaipainen to approach the stereotypes of the instrument polemically: “I feel that the bassoon is a far more versatile instrument than we are led to believe from school concerts onwards. To regard it only as the ‘clown of the orchestra’ is to disregard a large portion of its potential — or, at the very least, we should then understand the term ‘clown’ as a mixture of comedy and tragedy in the manner of Don Quixote, Chaplin, Pierrot or the characters of the commedia dell’arte in general.” The second movement is derived from a musical play for children entitled Hämärän maa (Land of twilight), where a rag doll becomes animated and dances with a piccolo. In the concerto, the piccolo dances with the solo bassoon.

Kaipainen’s Bassoon Concerto was written for bassoonist Otto Virtanen, who premiered it with the Tampere Philharmonic and Hannu Lintu in 2005. It is dedicated to “Finland’s bassoonists”, including the other dedicatee, Kaipainen’s long-standing copyist, proofreader and personal friend Kari Vehmanen." (Antti Häyrynen & Jaakko Mäntyjärvi)
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