Two of these instruments play a cadenza together above string trills near the end of the "Prélude à la nuit" from Ravel's Rapsodie Espagnole.
Two of these instruments play a cadenza together above string trills near the end of the "Prélude à la nuit" from Ravel's Rapsodie Espagnole. Bachianas Brasileiras No. 6 is a duo for flute and this instrument. The French horn call between the first and second subjects of the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is re-scored in the recapitulation for this instrument, though conductors often opt to undo the re-scoring. This instrument introduces the primary melody of "The Story of the Kalendar Prince", the second movement of Rimsky-Korsakov's (*) Scheherazade. Two of these instruments are the first pair to play in "The Game of Pairs" from Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra. Mozart's earliest woodwind concerto is a piece in B-flat for this instrument, which depicts the Grandfather in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. For 10 points, name this low-pitched double-reed woodwind instrument.
Two of these instruments play a cadenza together above string trills near the end of the "Prélude à la nuit" from Ravel's Rapsodie Espagnole.
bassoon [do NOT prompt on or accept "contrabassoon"]