Four Bassoon Rags (2004) are enjoyable rags with surprising twists off the well-known rag form. The bassoon is given numerous opportunities to present itself in a humorous and virtuoso manner.

 

Composer's note

Originally written for piano solo, it was started in Paddington, Sydney, at the Peggy Glanville-Hicks’s house and finished when I moved to another house in Coogee, in September 1996. Hence the title “Removalist Rag.”