Music Minus One Bassoon-A fabulous selection of woodwind quintets from such masters as Beethoven Haydn Mozart Lefebvre Colomer and Barthe. Contains pieces of varying lengths and complexities for a broad range of technical abilities. This is truly a treasure-trove for any bassoonist. Includes a high-quality printed music score and a compact disc containing accompaniments to each piece minus the soloist. Accompaniment: Camerata Woodwind Quintet: Gerald Carey flute George Townsend clarinet Roger Collins french horn Robert Koper bassoon

Music Minus One Bassoon-This luscious quintet is scored for piano oboe clarinet horn and bassoon. Mozart's magnificent orchestration of the winds with piano creates a warm and glowing texture of sound and each instrument emerges at times for a prominent position. Cast in three movements: Largo/Allegro moderato Larghetto and Rondo/Allegretto. Truly one of the great works in this format and wonderful fun to practice and perform. Includes the complete solo part for the Bassoon printed on high-quality ivory paper and a compact disc containing a complete performance of the quintet with soloist then performed again minus the soloist. Accompaniment: Harriet Wingreen piano New Art Wind Quintet:Mel Kaplan oboe Tina DiDario bassoon Murray Panitz flute Aldo Simonelli clarinet

Unusually for him Davies starts his Bassoon Concerto not with slow music but with speed and brilliance: the opening is a Presto initiated by the strings and only at the entry of the soloist does the tempo relax to thatof a real introduction. Out of this grow a big dancing Allegro. The slow movement begins and ends with a simple song around fantastical ornamentation from the soloist. The finale is again a recitative and dance with a slow coda.The whole work is an immense show of stamina poetry and athleticism for the bassoon set against an orchestra coloured by low wind (alto flute clarinet in A bass clarinet contrabassoon horns).