Bassoonist Frank Morelli's new recording is released February 20, 2026 on Musica Solis
"From the Soul" features works by Wynton Marsalis, Dominick Argento, Lori Laitman, Jeff Scott, and Nirmali Fenn
Legendary bassoonist's 2024 release "An die Musik" is currently available on Musica Solis, featuring works by Brahms, Schubert, and Schumann
Bassoonist Frank Morelli's sixth solo album "From the Soul" is released on February 20, 2026 on Musica Solis (MS202602). The collection features works by Wynton Marsalis, Dominick Argento, Lori Laitman, Jeff Scott, and Nirmali Fenn.
The selections on this recording are very personal, says Morelli. "Each work chosen for this album speaks from the soul." From Scott's hopeful Elegy for Innocence to Laitman's song cycle based on poetry written by children in a Nazi concentration camp to Marsalis's jazz-inflected Meeelaan performed with the Callisto Quartet, the album explores a range of emotions and moods.
Nirmali Fenn composed Prayer especially for Morelli. The score requires the bassoonist to emulate the sound of the duduk, an Armenian folk instrument. "The bassoon needn’t have just one voice. The bassoon is my voice, and it has been my life’s work to speak through it with variety and sincerity, from both heart and soul," writes Morelli.
In 2024, the bassoonist released "An die Musik," also on Musica Solis. The album includes transcriptions of Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe, Cello Sonata No. 1 by Johannes Brahms, and An die Musik by Franz Schubert.
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