Bassoon and String Orchestra - Dead Man's Soul - F minor

This piece depicts a dead soul in a living body. thanks for your thoughts

Edited September 1, 20205 yr by ClasiCompose

This is great, I really enjoyed it: tasteful orchestration and nice lyrical parts passed between Bassoon and strings. 

There's a couple of cross-relations in the score that I don't know if you intended - they're mostly just passing tones though so it's not like they totally jumped out at me in the recording as sounding wrong.  In m. 10 you have the violins playing a passing Gb while the cellos and basses play a passing G natural (also happens the same way in the very last measure).  The Gb's seem to dominate to my ear.  Also in m. 31 and 32 the violas play a Gb while the bassoon plays a G natural right after.  In m.44 beat 2 you have a D natural in the bassoon while the 1st violins and the cellos play Db's - that one really jumped out at me and I heard it as a 'wrong' note in the recording.

Aside from that I enjoyed the lush string voicings and your choice of chords is superb - really beautiful music.  I like the way you foreshadowed the bassoon melody by introducing it first in the strings.  I really like the chord you have at m. 75 - unique choice using a 6/4 voicing of a major 7th chord.  Thanks for the music!

@DanJTitchener Thanks for listening. I'm glad you liked it.Your comment helped me understand how the contrast between the two expressions looks from another eye. Meanwhile, I follow your piano pieces with interest.

@PaperComposer thanks for listening I am glad you like it. You have captured nice details. These were deliberate, but I won't say it sounds right, I tested these sounds and I liked it, there may be better alternatives of course. I appreciate your detailed review (listening) and comment. How it is heard by another ear is always important to me. 

Edited September 2, 20205 yr by ClasiCompose