Bassoonatics!

Fraser Jackson (Performer), Kathlene McLean (Performer), Michael Sweeney (Performer), Nadina Mackie Jackson (Performer), Leroy Anderson (Composer), Johannes Brahms (Composer), Mitchell Clarke (Composer), Bill Douglas (Composer), Duke / Tizol, Juan Ellington (Composer), George Gershwin (Composer), Reynaldo Hahn (Composer), John / McCartney, Paul Lennon (Composer), Jimmy McHugh (Composer), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Astor Piazzolla (Composer), Jean Sibelius (Composer), Igor Stravinsky (Composer), Kurt Weill (Composer), Michael Welsh (Composer), Caliban Quartet (Performer)

Product Details

• Performer: Fraser Jackson, Kathlene McLean, Michael Sweeney, Nadina Mackie Jackson, Caliban Quartet
• Composer: Leroy Anderson, Johannes Brahms, Mitchell Clarke, Bill Douglas, Duke / Tizol, Juan Ellington, et al.
• Audio CD (February 17, 1998)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Musica Viva
• ASIN: B0000067V1
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #142,088 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

  Popular in these categories: (What's this?)

  #18 in	Music > Classical > Ballets & Dances > Tangos
  #22 in	Music > Classical > Ballets & Dances > Baroque Dance Suites > Gigue
  #64 in	Music > Classical > Featured Composers, A-Z > ( W ) > Weill, Kurt

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Bassoonastics, September 26, 2003

By	belinda edwards (melbourne, victoria Australia) - See all my reviews

This would have to be the best bassoon ensemble cd on the market. The arrangements are stylish and clever, and the performances brilliant! Fraser Jackson must be the most accomplished contrabassoonist I have ever head. This cd is a must for any bassoonists collection be you amateur or proffessional.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bassoon Me!, August 8, 2004

By	rodboomboom (Dearborn, Michigan United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

I delight in the bassoon! What a unique and great sound, throaty and thrillingly coarse, yet soaring to sound at times like sax, like oboe, like cello, like a bunch of bassoonatics!

This is delightful collection of musical styles played by this innovative and talented quartet. Choosing to select pieces that are not typically of the bassoon repertoire, we go from Waltz to Gershwin to Broadway to Motzart to Lennon/McCartnye to Sibelius to most of us unknowns such as Mitchell Clarke to Duke Ellington.

All played with passion and gusto and excellent tonality, phrasing and tempo.

Bassoon Me again!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bassoon for all palettes, December 11, 1999

By	Harbormaster (Maine) - See all my reviews

With fun and creative arranging, as well as strong tributes to the limited repertoire devoted to bassoon ensembles, this CD takes a fresh look at some familiar music, and lovingly introduces the novice to new material. Many of the familiar Gershwin or Anderson pieces take on a delightful timbre when rendered in the bass clef by this group of accomplished musicians. Closely miked recording techniques make one feel almost as if sitting in the midst of the quartet, feeling the click of keys as they play. Lacking is any garrish attempt to shock the listener, as other groups have done in this genre. Rather, one feels assured and enraptured by the tenor tones of the closely harmonious standard and one contrabassoon. I am defintely anticipating the next release from this ensemble!