Howdy, I did get a hold of the Poulenc chamber works compilation that EMI re-released, so I've added the "Sonate pour clarinette et basson" with Amaury Wellez...
(Howdy,) I've added Katarzyna Piotrowska-Wilczewski playing Tadeusz Baird's "4 preludes". Analog stuff is not far off, perhaps tomorrow Allard's Boismortier...
Hello Everyone, Just posted on YouTube the last 2 movements of the Wolf-Ferrari Concertino for your listening pleasure(perhaps). Just type in "French bassoon"...
Hi Jim, Great to see and hear that. I don't think the strings did you any favours so I wouldn't worry too much about your tuning in relation to them. I too...
Hi John, Many thanks for your kind words. It's funny with community orchestras, at least the one's I've played with, that the weakest members will usually be...
I wonder if that gentleman could have been Ted Planas? He was certainly a legend when it came to woodwind instruments. He pinned a Buffet for me in the early...
dear colleagues and jim, thanks for the youtube posting. i did enjoy it! -not sure if i ever heard that piece before though i've heard about it, solid and...
Hi Peter, Yes, that was he. He had to have been in his late 60's or early 70's back in 1974. He was very kind and helpful to me at the time. I remember him...
I didn't know Ted Planas myself, but I have some clarinet playing colleagues who knew and loved him, and he never seemed to take much money for his work...
John, That Loubry recording is what I based my own interpretation on. He is an amazing player with a poetic style all his own. I have many of his other CD's...
Hi Chuck, Many thanks for the kind words. I think one of my motives in posting on YouTube was to get a little dialogue going here about sound and pitch, etc...
Howdy!, The Boismortier is now on...This one (in my hands) also turned out to be Allard: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320258354185 So,...
Thanks Guy again for the excellent work. Just wanted to point out that the Allard Poulenc, Hongne Weber and the Allard Art of Fugue have all been re-issued on...
Thanks Guy again for the excellent work. Just wanted to point out that the Allard Poulenc, Hongne Weber and the Allard Art of Fugue have all been re-issued on...
Hi Wai Kit, That's very interesting...The copy of the Weber I have isn't going to make it, so I'll keep searching for a CD. The slow mov't is exquisite, the...
Thanks Peter for the link. I forgot about the euravent store. The CD indeed went out of stock in other places, including the one from where I ordered a...
As far as I know, Maurice Allard is the only bassoonist--period--to have ever recorded the Bitsch concertino with orchestra. I've heard this recording and I...
I forgot to mention that Ted Planas was exceedingly fond of the French bassoon, "with its more centred tone", and loved especially to listen to recordings of...
I too remember that Selmer bassoon. In fact it had been ordered by Cecil James from Vincent Bach Distribution the London concessionaries. Cecil thought it was...
Hello to all fellow players and lovers of the French bassoon! I am living in London, preparing to undertake a masters of music at the Royal College of Music on...
Nice, sensitive playing. Welcome to the group! Charlie Moomaw Cincinnati, Ohio ... From: Howard Dann To: frenchbassoon@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 23,...
dear howard, glad you have joined and i enjoyed your myspace recording- nice sound and musicality! you have heard noel devos' recording? for your royal college...
Glad you joined the group, Howard. I like the sound very much, which has a good balance between reedy vibrancy and warm mellowness. Good luck with the...
Hi Howard, Welcome to the group. It seems silly that we both live in the same city but haven't met yet. Well have to rectify that sometime. We communicated...
I wonder if members are aware of the French record label Alpha? They have been re-issuing old 78rpm recordings onto CD in recent years, helped by Radio France,...
Thanks for that Peter, I've had a look for it on Google, but all I get is a French production company specialising in erotic films. Do you know if Alpha...
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