CD: The New York Bassoon Quartet, quartets for bassoon

Now & Then
The New York Bassoon Quartet

Bassoonists Bernadette Zirkuli, Jane Taylor, Lauren Goldstein and Julie Feves perform a piece by Prokofiev, early American tunes arranged by Christopher Weait, and new music by eight American composers. Leonarda CD #LE348. Duration 73:30

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	Composers, Bassoon Quartets	MP3 samples
	Christopher Weait (arr.) (b.1939) (England/Canada/USA) Suite of Early American Tunes for Bassoon Quartet (arr.1965) (11:44) 1. General Wayne's March (1:25) 2. Hymn Tune "Work for the Night is Coming" (2:43) 3. Waltz and Dexter's Air (3:29) 4. Lady Bruce's Reel, Minor Hornpipe, Durang's Hornpipe(1:56) 5. Cobbs' Superior (1:05) 6. Capt. Mulligan (:55)	Weait 1. mp3 Weait 6. mp3
	John Corigliano (b.1938) (USA) 7. How Like Pellucid Statues, Daddy (Or like a...an engine) (4:45) (1994)	Corigliano 7. mp3
	Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) (Russia/France/Russia) 8. Humerous Scherzo, Op. 12 bis (2:50) (Opus date: 1906-1913. Arr. for bassoons by composer in 1915)	Prokofiev 8. mp3
	William Schuman (1910-1992) (USA) Quartettino (4:17) (1939) 9. Ostinato (1:08) 10. Nocturne (1:11) 11. Valse (:45) 12. Fughetta (1:03)	Schuman 11. mp3
	John Harbison (b. 1938) (USA) 13. Canzonetta (5:00) (1962)	Harbison 13. mp3
	Peter Schickele (b.1935) (USA) 14. Last Tango in Bayreuth (2:26) (1973)	Schickele 14. mp3
	Katherine Hoover (b.1937) (USA) Sinfonia (10:59) (1977) 15. Introduction and Funeral March (7:46) 16. Allegro Vivace (3:09)	Hoover 15. mp3 Hoover 16. mp3
	Alvin Brehm (b.1925) (USA) Colloquy and Chorale (6:52) (1974) 17. Colloquy (3:28) 18. Chorale (3:20)	Brehm 17. mp3
	Vaclav Nelhybel (1919-1996) (Czech./USA) Concert Etudes for Four Bassoons (10:34) (published 1978) 19. Allegro Vivo (2:50) 20. Allegretto (1:13) 21. Canon: Andante Moderato (3:30) 22. Allegro (2:52)	Nelhybel 19. mp3 Nelhybel 21. mp3
	Rudolph Palmer (b. 1952) (USA) Contrasts for Four Bassoons (13:14) (1976) 23. Moderato (7:11) 24. Allegretto (6:00)	Palmer 23. mp3 Palmer 24. mp3

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Production: 1999 recording (Weait, Corigliano, Prokofiev, Schuman, Harbison): Marnie Hall, producer and microphones; David Smith, console. Recorded in New York City at Town Hall. Post Production in 1999: Marnie Hall. DDD. 1979 recording (Schickele, Hoover, Brehm, Nelhybel, Palmer): Joanna Nickrenz, producer; Marc Aubort, engineer. Recorded in New York City at Rutgers Church. Post Production in 1979: Nickrenz/Aubort. ADD. CD Mastering: Marnie Hall. Graphic Design: Marnie Hall. Cover Drawing of Bassoons: Bernadette Zirkuli. Notes edited by Marnie Hall. Prokofiev information condensed and edited by permission from http://www.prokofiev.org. Support: This recording is made possible with public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Rights: Copyright © 2002, Leonarda Productions, Inc. All rights reserved. Performing Rights: Weait: SOCAN (BMI in USA). Prokofieff: GEMA (BMI in USA). Harbison and Schuman: BMI. Other composers: ASCAP. Music Publishers: Weait: Christlieb Products, Sherman Oaks, California. Phone 888-783-6554. Corigliano: G. Schirmer/Music Sales. Prokofiev: Robert Forberg Verlag; U.S. agent: C. F. Peters Corp. Schuman: Peer International. Harbison: Bubonic Publishers (Minnesota). Schickele: Theodore Presser. Hoover: Papagena Press. Nelhybel and Brehm: Colgems/EMI.

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