Program

GABRIELI/Crees
Canzon No. XIV for Ten Instruments / 3 min

GABRIELI/Winter
Sonata No. XIII for Double Brass Quartet / 3 min

GABRIELI/Sheppard
Canzon No. VI from Canzoni et Sonate / 4 min

FRANÇAIX
Quartet for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon / 11 min

IBERT/Holcombe
The Little White Donkey / 2 min

MOZART
Bassoon Concerto / 18 min

SAINT-GEORGES
Symphony No. 1 / 15 min

Program Notes and Details

At a Glance

The Minnesota Orchestra’s brass section welcomes the new year with three short pieces by Renaissance composer Giovanni Gabrieli, and a woodwind ensemble pairs together the works of 20th-century contemporaries. Music Director Osmo Vänskä conducts music by two peers from the late 1700s: Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto, featuring Principal Bassoon Fei Xie in his Minnesota Orchestra solo debut, and a dazzling symphony by Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

Artists

• Minnesota Orchestra
• Osmo Vänskä, conductor
• Fei Xie, bassoon

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