Tanner, Mark: Cornish Pastiche Bassoon Timeless Cornish melodies, cooked up for hungry bassoonists - Digital Download *Vamoosh Music Piano accompaniments are comparatively easy

Piano accompaniments are comparatively easy

The Waters of Kusatu

descriptions add up to ‘chiff ’ – what Tommy Makem calls ‘The great Clarke tone’

The manuscript presented to Robert Schumann's wife has been lost

whose contemplative companion is the moon resting among the stars

Tanner, Mark: Cornish Pastiche Bassoon Timeless Cornish melodies, cooked up for hungry bassoonists - Digital Download *Vamoosh Music Piano accompaniments are comparatively easyAs I sit myself down to write this brief foreword, I ask myself can there be music more stirring than these old Cornish folk melodies? Though not Cornish myself (I confess to being born a little further up the road, in Bristol), I feel I have spent sufficient time in these ere parts to resonate with the sturdy brass band tradition that continues to permeate this incomparably beautiful, rugged county. One can almost detect a French accent when