With his many critically acclaimed award-winning recordings and live performances, Daniel Smith is the most recorded bassoon soloist in the world, with a repertoire spanning music from jazz to ...

One man, one musical masterpiece, six bassoons. Ashby Mayes, a student at the Royal College of Music has turned one of Edward Elgar's best-loved pieces of music into a multi-tracked masterpiece for ...

FRANK ZAPPA once wrote, “The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has the medieval aroma -- like the days when everything used to sound like that.... It’s a great noise -- nothing else makes ...

This week's Feature Album, Telemann: Chamber Music For Bassoon and Guitar, showcases just how versatile the bassoon can be. It usually appears as an accompanying instrument, or one that sits in the ...

After an absence of a couple of years, bassoonist Katherine Ortega will make an encore appearance in the Classics at The Merc series Sunday. She will be accompanied on piano by another Classics at The ...

Nielsen: Espansiva – works for 4 hand piano Rikke Sandberg, Kristoffer Hyldig (OUR Recordings) Hearing big orchestral works transcribed for piano is a reminder that keyboard arrangements were, for ...

Placing these three single movements together serves to highlight just how great Sibelius’s Symphony No. 7 is, and just how hard it is to create a genuinely cohesive single movement symphony.