Swider, Józef - Sonata

The first part of Sonata is written in a form of scherzando of a light and witty character, where the composer fully uses the facture and bassoon’s sound potential. The second part, full of meditation and cantilena, bears a particular expression of lower registers of the instrument. Part three is a traditional minuet in moderato tempo, with stylised folk elements in the middle fragment. The last part resumes the scherzo form, capped by a cadenza, in which – attempting to imitate the language of Józef Świder’s compositions that include numerous elements of a synthetic finale – most of the music concepts outlined in the entire Sonata were included.