for solo bassoon
Duration
c. 4:30 minutes
Written as part of the Psappha Ensemble’s ‘Composing For’ scheme 2018-19 with Ben Hudson.
Programme Note
September 1938: Under the ruse of being guests for Captain Ridley’s Shooting Party, dressed in their Sunday best and all their finery, a group of soon-to-be spies and codebreakers met together for the first time at the halfway point between Oxford and Cambridge Universities at Bletchley Park.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Ridley’s Party is dedicated to Bampy, for everything he does.
Score available from Composers Edition
