Francis Chambers IV wrote:

>I am pursuing a study of the Mozart Bassoon Concerto K.  191 and, while
>I have my personal favorite edition and performers, I am curious what
>everyone else thinks and why.

This is a piece I have loved for many years, and maybe it's a case of
imprinting, but I have never heard a performance I liked as much as the
vinyl disk I own of it: Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, with
Bernard Garfield on the bassoon.  (The flipside is the Flute Concerto
K.  313 with William Kinkaid.) What I particularly like about Garfield's
performance is the drollness of the bassoon.  I always felt that Mozart
wrote this piece giggling, and have bought several CDs and listened to
others in hopes of finding that drollery--which I believe Mozart underlined
by having the bassoon make those impressive and faintly ridiculous leaps.
Like you, I am also curious as to other recommendations and their reasons!

Dave Wolf