THE FRENCH BASSOON
For the love of this beautiful instrument
"American program" for bassoon quintet,
arrangements, composition 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)
Ensemble Paris-Bastille
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