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A very special concert evening awaited the guests on July 18 this year: an evening of bassoons getting to know each other. In the orchestra, they are always in the second row, right in the middle, but never clearly visible to the audience. The concert in the Stadtstadel was completely different. There, the bassoon took center stage as an instrument and showed its very personal side. As a quartet consisting of Leonhard Kohler, Raphael Sirch, Johannes Stefaniak and Marco Scida, they opened up the entire spectrum of classical chamber music, tango, jazz and rock music. Impressively, they explained the special features of the woodwind instrument and its range of sounds. Well-known pieces, played in a completely different manner, such as Haydn, Telemann and Puccini, presented in stark contrast to Piazolla, Ravel, Sinatra and Miller, to be rounded off with rock music by Queen. And at the end, the pink panther sneaked past. With maximum variety in 90 minutes, there was only one instrument that took pride of place that evening. At the next orchestra evening, the guests will probably start by looking for the bassoons.
Photographer: Bernhard Simon