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For more bassoon here is a sample of Stravinsky's Octet. It is from a recording of a concert at Cal State University, Fullerton in 1965. The musicians on the recording are George Adams and I on bassoons and the late Christie Lundquist on clarinet.
Here is a little movie of a Stamitz trio for flute, oboe, and bassoon. Click here Some browsers take a few seconds to load. Be patient.
George and I were both students of the late Frederick Moritz during the same period. Mr. Moritz, principal bassoon of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 47 years, was renowned for his many innovations on bassoon. These included his style of "clean" playing. You can hear two bassoons using that style on the Stravinsky mp3.
Clean playing means no cracking notes. This can happen with a perfect reed, but that seldom occurs. His method emphasized the assiduous use of octave keys and half holes. I've included an exercise within his method in which every student was expected to never produce a cracked note.
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