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 ...

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 ...

There is no doubt about the brilliant uniqueness of pianist, conductor, musicologist and one-time Nadia Boulanger pupil Robert Levin, an influential Harvard Professor for more than two decades until ...

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 ...

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

Bassoonist Sergio Azzolini will release Concerti per fagotto VI on July 3, marking the completion of his six-album exploration of Antonio Vivaldi's bassoon concertos for naïve classiques' Vivaldi ...

Music, education, family and Chinese heritage are passions of Principal Bassoon Fei Xie. Fei Xie has been the Minnesota Orchestra's principal bassoon since 2017. When he won the principal role with ...

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 ...

Leslie Ross 100 years after Stravinsky made the bassoon sound like it never had, in the opening of his Rite of Spring, Ross uses micro-amplifiers—15 of them, placed right on the sound holes of her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Catherine Van Handel is principal bassoonist of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Catherine Van Handel is bringing sexy back to ...