He often retains the importance of the original crossed-hand passages by assigning them to the bassoon, an instrument that was rarely given prominence in orchestral writing at this time.
Not only this, but he would have permitted himself the luxuries of bass clarinet and double bassoon in these four bars, for the only time in the movement.
Bass drum and double bassoon support the beginnings of a dance, which the duo seems to be trying to recover from the depths of memory.
The teacher modelled one extreme example before they started - a bassoon note made to last sixty seconds.
He cites in this context the rising chromatic line of clarinets and bassoons in bars 107-10 of our aria.
Regarding specific instances of the implemented instruments: the piccolo, flute and bassoon are very successful.
In mitigation, however, it is doubled in octaves by the bassoon.
The presynaptic active zone protein bassoon is essential for photoreceptor ribbon synapse formation in the retina.
