The New London Orchestra & Ronald Corp - The Playful Pachyderm (2004)

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Artist: The New London Orchestra & Ronald Corp
Title: The Playful Pachyderm
Year Of Release: 2004
Label: Hyperion
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue, log, artwork)
Total Time: 68:43
Total Size: 237 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

1. My Teddy Bear - Johann Wilhelm Ganglberger
2. Romance Op. 62 - Edward Elgar
3. Allegro Spiritoso - Jean-Baptiste, Senaille
4. Walking song from Appelbo
5. Mist-Covered Mountains - Catriona McKay
6. Piece - Gabriel Faure
7. The Playful Pachyderm - Gilbert Vinter
8. Spurn Point
9. Van Dieman's Land
10. She Borrowed Some Of Her Mother's Gold
11. As I Walked Over London Bridge
12. Bonny at Morn - Laurence Perkins
13. Lucy Song - Fred Godfrey
14. Funeral March of a Marionette - Charles Gounod
15. The Old Grumbler Op. 210 - Julius Fucik
16. Piece En Forme De Habanera - Maurice Ravel
17. The Carnival - James Ord Hume
18. The Bassoon - Richard Suart

Performers:

Laurence Perkins bassoon
Catriona McKay clarsach ([5])
Richard Suart baritone ([18])
The New London Orchestra
Ronald Corp

This joyous new disc takes us deep into the wondrous world of ‘all-things bassoon’—original pieces, arrangements time-tested and well loved, and new versions for the instrument of old favourites.

Longfellow described the bassoon as ‘a distant voice in the darkness’—Laurence Perkins takes up the challenge in his arrangements of wordless songs by Fauré and Ravel; folk song finds its place—a nod to the instrument’s distinguished ancestry dating all the way back to the medieval period; and humour, of course, is never far away—the bassoon is after all (to paraphrase Ashlyn’s bizarre dialogue between voice and bassoon) an instrument as much suited to the innuendo-laden serenading of one’s lover as to the killing of rodents …

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