Guests: Matthew Darsey, Ash Mach, Katrin Meidell.

Audio clips:

• blocks by Adam Scott Neal, performed by Beo String Quartet (Theme)
• University of Iowa Electronic Music Studios (viola notes)
• International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) / Petrucci Music Library (clips of Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture, Brahms’s Symphony No. 1, Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture )
• Alban Berg Quartet, Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15
• Hindemith performs Hindemith, Der Schwanendreher
• Ondřej Štochl, (Tristan Murail - C’est un jardin secret)

In this episode, I talk to Jolene Masone, Peter Van Zandt Lane, and Brittany Harrington-Smith about the bassoon -- a woodwind instrument they called woody, goofy, lyrical. I asked about their relationship with the instrument, what it "does well," and what pieces show it off well.

Guests: Jolene Masone, Peter Van Zandt Lane, Brittany Harrington-Smith

Audio clips:

• blocks by Adam Scott Neal, performed by Beo String Quartet (Theme)
• University of Iowa Electronic Music Studios (bassoon notes)
• International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) / Petrucci Music Library (clips of Paul Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring)
• Christopher Millard and CBC Vancouver Orchestra (Otmar Nussio: Variations su un' Arietta di Pergolesi (1953) )
• Olivia Palmer-Baker (Pierluigi Bilone: Blaues Fragment (2010))
• Peter Van Zandt Lane (Hydromancer, Aeromancer, Pyromancer)
• Breaking Winds Quartet (“Rapper’s Delight” and Maurice Ravel’s Bolero)