Two of them introduce the song "What comes there from on high?" in the Academic Festival Overture.
In the fourth movement of Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony, this instrument plays solos between brass passages; later, it opens the fifth movement. In The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, the variation for this instrument is a march. Two of them introduce the song "What comes there from on high?" in the Academic Festival Overture. Strings and this instrument open the overture to The (*) Marriage of Figaro. In The Elixir of Love, a solo for this instrument introduces the main theme of the aria "Una furtiva lagrima." It plays a solo in the lullaby from The Firebird. The Rite of Spring opens with a solo for this instrument, which represents the grandfather in Peter and the Wolf. For 10 points, name this instrument whose "contra" variety is the lowest-pitched woodwind instrument.
In the fourth movement of Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony, this instrument plays solos between brass passages; later, it opens the fifth movement.
bassoons [or fagotto; or fagotti]