Gounod "Funeral March of a Marionette", Irving Berlin "Alexander’s Ragtime Band", Carl Maria von Weber "Fantasy #1 (from Concerto in F)", Edvard Grieg "Hall of the Mountain King", David Carroll "The Wedding Guest", Hoagy Carmichael "Georgia On My Mind", Leo Delibes "Pizzicati", Leroy Anderson "Bugler's Holiday", Peter Schickele "Last Tango in Bayreuth", Pierre Max Dubois "Scherzo pour 4 Bassons", Lorenz Hart/Richard Rogers "Bewitched", Georges Bizet "Dragoons (Entr'acte from Carmen)", Peter Schickele "Blue Set No. 2 for Four Bassoons", Dave Brubeck "Blue Rondo A La Turk" Lowell Shaw "Frippery #19", "Frippery #2", Jimmy Forest "Night Train" & "Red River Valley"

Mark Eubanks, Robert Naglee, Bonnie Fillmore Cox, Carlton Jackson and Juan de Gomar.

Wanted for low-down playing and bass behavior, the Bassoon Brothers are on a mission to save the "...oons" from extinction by exposing you to a body of new sounds and music for the instrument including the world premiere recording of Professor Peter Schickele's Blue Set for Four Bassoons.

There have been only a handful of players who have taken the bassoon beyond its usual role. Since 1985, three men (and their soul sister) who call themselves the Bassoon Brothers have shown that a small band of these instruments is capable of doing a variety of musical styles from the Renaissance to modern jazz; not just cute ditties or the "clown of the orchestra" bit (an approach that they do exploit on occasion). They have been able to keep their mission alive because Northwest audiences have discovered them and always want to hear more. This recording is a realization that the Brothers is not your average woodwind group.

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