Laurence Perkins; Ronald Corp: New London Orchestra
Release Date: 01 November 2004
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571174532
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
This joyous new disc takes us deep into the wondrous world of ‘all-things bassoon’—original pieces, arrangements time-tested and well loved, and new versions for the instrument of old favourites.
Longfellow described the bassoon as ‘a distant voice in the darkness’—Laurence Perkins takes up the challenge in his arrangements of wordless songs by Faure and Ravel; folk song finds its place—a nod to the instrument’s distinguished ancestry dating all the way back to the medieval period; and humour, of course, is never far away—the bassoon is after all (to paraphrase Ashlyn’s bizarre dialogue between voice and bassoon) an instrument as much suited to the innuendo-laden serenading of one’s lover as to the killing of rodents …
Tracklisting
Roberto Prosseda, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nir Kabaretti
The Brabant Ensemble / Stephen Rice
Steven Isserlis
The Nash Ensemble
MultiPiano Ensemble, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Ivor Bolton
Marc-Andre Hamelin
Marc-Andre Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton
Gothic Voices / Christopher Page
Yoichi Sugiyama
David Rabinovich
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Roberto Prosseda, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nir Kabaretti
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Peter Szilvay, Aage Richard Meyer, Cam Kjoll, Ruth Potter
Joshua Bell
