At its lowest, the bassoon is the orchestra’s fart-cushion. Haydn wasn’t above to employ it thus. At its best, it is this: An integral part to three chamber music pieces so beautiful, so impeccably ...

With April Fool's Day just around the corner, here's an ensemble guaranteed to bring some laughter into your day - The Bassoon Brothers. Their mission from their website: "We have an ultimate mission ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Tuesday. It’s not often you get to hear a quartet made up entirely of bassoons, an instrument relegated to the back chairs and background noises of most ...

How much have you heard bassoon as a featured instrument? We’ll hear the plaintive sound of the bassoon in music by William Grant Still. Join Emily Boyer just after 9 a.m. on 91.1, 107.5, and our ...

Poor Beethoven’s 250th anniversary year saw most of the projected live events cancelled, but good new recordings have continued to appear. One reason for liking this one, performances aside, is the ...

FRANK ZAPPA once wrote, “The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has the medieval aroma -- like the days when everything used to sound like that.... It’s a great noise -- nothing else makes ...

Bassoonist Dr. David Wells plays the instrument like few others. In other words, he has figured out how to make it work flawlessly all the way from historically performed baroque performances, to ...

Nielsen: Espansiva – works for 4 hand piano Rikke Sandberg, Kristoffer Hyldig (OUR Recordings) Hearing big orchestral works transcribed for piano is a reminder that keyboard arrangements were, for ...

Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra Manchester Camerata Laurence Perkins, Bassoon Douglas Boyd, Conductor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Concertino (Johann) Michael Haydn, Composer Laurence Perkins, ...