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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
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