hiya im looking to have discussions of grade8/diploma repertoire with fellow woodwind players, recorder players especially, i do know a fair amount of bassoon and oboe repertoire but not as much as recorder flute or clarinet, as sax is concerned, i know little sobear that in mind, i have AOL and MSN messenger if you want to contact me

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Chris

*drools over Jolivet Bassoon Concerto*

Are you familiar with it? If only I could play it.....

I could play the slow part of the 2nd movement quite well until I got a new instrument and now I don't know the fingerings! The Recitative in the 1st movement is too high and the rest is too fast! For now, anyway.

Note to self: find fingerings for high E & F

The Jacob Bassoon Concerto is fantastic (in fact, so is the unaccompanied work - its name escapes me). Again, if only I could play it. The 2nd movement is something else!

Note to self: find trill fingering for high C/D-flat

sorry, i dont know either of those concertos but i have heard OF the Jacob Concerto. I used to be able to play the 2nd movement of the Mozart Concerto despite the fact im a complete amateur and the instrument i used was terrible! it didnt even have a high D key!!!

The Vivaldi Bassoon Concertos are fantastic! as is the Hummel and the Saint Saens Sonata! although that goes upto the top E in the last movement.

for fingerings above top D, google "bassoon fingerings" and there should be a link of wfw.org or something, click that and hey presto! you have fingerings

if you can get in touch via AOL or MSN, that would be VERY appreciated thanks!

I am working for the clarinet diploma. I'm playing Weber, Stanford, Berkely and Messager. For grade 8 I did Brahms Eb, Arnold Sonatina and Stravinsky.

I don't have MSN or AOL meesenger, but there are PMs on here if you want direct contact. Good luck.

A high D key?

The Jolivet Concerto is indeed beautiful and VERY challenging -- it was written for the French-system bassoon, which has a easier high range than the German-system bassoon most of us know.

The IDRS (International Double Reed Society) has fingering charts for the bassoon:

http://idrs.colorado.edu/BSNFING/FINGHOME.HTM

The high E on the Saint-Saens Sonata actually appears in the second movement. Again, the piece was written for the French-system bassoon.

It's more a matter of me stopping the procrastinating and actually go figure out which fingerings work on my bassoon (I've only had it a few months and the high register is a little scary still).

Damn those french bassoons! What I wouldn't give to play higher, higher....

I like the 3rd mvt of Saint-Saens, myself. A lot of fun!

Some other great bassoon pieces (by Australian composers!!!) are

Peter Webb - In Memoriam (Early Autumn Leaves Falling)

That is a very beautiful, plaintive piece. It was written for a young freelance bassoonist who died from leukaemia.

James Ledger - "Liberty. Equality. Karaoke."

That is an absolutely fantastic piece. It's for solo bassoon and CD backing. The CD backing uses sounds all deriving from the bassoon, although you'd never guess! It would be soooo difficult to pull off though. CD's don't exactly wait for you, unlike accompanists.