This instrument plays the only extended solo in the overture to Verdi's Luisa Miller.
This instrument plays the only extended solo in the overture to Verdi's Luisa Miller. This is the solo instrument in a piece that opens with the movement "The Perilous Shore". This instrument introduces the main theme to "The Pines of Janiculum" from Respighi's The Pines of Rome. This instrument has a long solo at the beginning of the Adagio from Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony, and it first states the Shaker theme in Copland's Appalachian Spring. John Adams' Gnarly Buttons is for this instrument. Heinrich Baermann, a virtuoso on this instrument, was the dedicatee of Carl Maria von Weber's two concertos for it. The basset horn is a variant of, for 10 points, what single-reed woodwind instrument, which plays a notable glissando at the opening of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue?
This instrument plays the only extended solo in the overture to Verdi's Luisa Miller.
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