When you learn that this album is all bassoon, from top to bottom, you might think, “I don’t want that!” But you do, and here is why: It will put you in a great mood.
What could be better than a chorus of bassoons singing and bopping around in your head? Anyone who has spent time with bassoonists knows that they are delightfully quirky. Relatively recently some composers, notably Stravinsky, started to give the singular instrument that is the modern bassoon the respect it deserves, after which it was only a matter of time before these humble geniuses would start to take their creativity seriously and find their voices. Here we have such a bassoonist in Rebekah Heller, who commissioned three of the works and arranged the other two.

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