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David Breidenthal, bassoon; Gloria Cheng, piano
CD Recording:
Score and parts are available through Theodore Front Musical Literature, Inc., your local music store, or can be downloaded in pdf format at music2print.
Ensemble (Germany)
" ... a magnificent piece of music and a wonderful showcase for a bassoon soloist."
Ronald Klimko, The Double Reed
" ... a sparkling gem from the very talented Gernot Wolfgang ... Like other Wolfgang works, this one also relies heavily on the style and gestures of jazz and popular-oriented music. It's a real beauty of a work - difficult, but extremely accessible, even on first listening."
Walter Simmons, Fanfare Magazine
"One of the most substantial and fully realized entries is Moody Blues [a.k.a. Moods in Blue], by the Austrian- born Gernot Wolfgang ... Of all the pieces included here, Moody Blues is perhaps the one that uses the bassoon-and-piano medium with the greatest naturalness and ease. The result is a 12-minute work that embraces blues and jazz elements as well as more abstract, angular materials, smoothly integrating them into a single fluent, well-shaped movement ... "
Gary Higginson, MusicWeb
" ... the blues-inflected chromaticism of Gernot Wolfgang's wonderfully varied Moody Blues."
John Sunier, Audiophile Audition
"Gernot Wolfgang had the spirit of jazz in mind ... when he wrote Moody Blues. Its vacillation between chamber music and jazz is a key to its musical interest."