THE FRENCH BASSOON
For the love of this beautiful instrument
"American program" and "French program" for bassoon quintet,
arrangements, compositions and playing by Brice Mallier.
Here are few samples of gorgeous playing:
Maurice Allard: Vivaldi: Concertos extracts. (Erato Classics 1974)
Allegro non molto
Allegro
Largo - Il sonno
Extract from the last recording of Maurice Allard made in 1988:
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante (CBS Records)
Maurice Allard reaches the apogee of "the French Bassoon sound"
in this Masterwork.
More playing of Maurice Allard on YouTube
Gilbert Audin:
Presentation of "le basson"
More playing of Gilbert Audin on YouTube
Gilbert Audin and Laurent Lefèvre: Mozart: Gran Partita
Les Bassons de L’Opéra
(Laurent Lefèvre, Gilbert Audin, Nicolas Pinard,
Jean-Claude Montac, Anne Vigneau)
Rafael Angster: Antoine Dart - Robert Schumann
Alexandre Tansman
Ensemble Ouranos
Victor Dutot and Rafael Angster
Les Francs Bassons
Marie Boichard: François Devienne - Mozart - Saint-Saëns
Howard Dann
Ensemble Palissandre
A great solo at 1:28 by Jean-François Duquesnoy:
Ravel: Left Hand Piano Concerto
French and German bassoons playing nicely together:
Paul Dukas - Charles Gounot
Philippe Hanon: Gioachino Rossini - Maurice Ravel
Julien Hardy: IDRS - Igor Stravinsky - Mozart
Stravinsky: Wind Octet
More playing of Julien Hardy on YouTube
Lomic Lamouroux: Francis Poulenc - Pierre-Max Dubois
Vincent Legoupil: Le Concert Impromptu
Luc Loubry on YouTube
Jules Postel
Théo Sarazin: Antonio Vivaldi - Henri Vieuxtemps
More playing of Théo Sarazin on YouTube
Ludovic Tissus
Wind Quintet Cassiopee
French Bassoon makers Buffet-Crampon and
Ducasse