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Gernot Wolfgang, "Common Ground", Albany Records CD TROY 854

Daniel Lipori, The Double Reed
         
" I thoroughly enjoyed reading this work ... I would definitely recommend adding this piece to your repertoire."

Glyn Pursglove, Musicweb-International.com
         
" Wolfgang writes very well and sympathetically for the bassoon, as in Dual Identity for solo bassoon. Making some use of multiphonics, it is something of a demonstration piece for the soloist, but it is more than just that, having a genuine musical argument to offer"

Lawrence O'Rourke, Music Teacher
         
" There is an infectious perpetual motion to the work, a crisp preciseness to every note and instruction on the page ... thoroughly recommended for advanced students."

Ronald Klimko, The Double Reed
         
" ... clever, finely crafted, interesting modern works for the bassoon. This latest work, Dual Identity, is another gem of the same order."

Walter Simmons, Fanfare Magazine
         
" ... this little sketch for bassoon, which highlights both its energetic and its lyrical capabilities, is quite delightful. Even multiphonics are used imaginatively and to musically sensible effect ... "

Andreas Felber, JazzZeit
         
" Dual Identity fuer Solo-Fagott zeigt melodischen Witz ... "

Josef Woodard, Santa Barbara News-Press
         
" On the solo piece, Dual Identity, Ms. Farmer navigated the score's bouncing, propulsive sense of rhythm, partly articulated through well-placed spaces between notes. Trace elements of the composer's jazz and R&B pedigree emerge in the rhythmic design, but they blend in with a harmonic language grounded in contemporary classical writing."

J. Scott Morrison, Amazon.com
         
" [Dual Identity] is by turns or simultaneously contrapuntal, athmospheric, humorous, lyrical, poignant."