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English Music For Bassoon & Piano | 
 enlarge | Creators: Daniel Smith, Thomas Arne, Charles Avison, Thomas Dunhill, Edward Elgar, William Hurlstone, Gordon Jacob, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Roger Vignoles
Label: Asv Living Era
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
Buy New: $13.22
You Save: $4.76 (26%)
New (6) Used (1) Collectible (1) from $13.22
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 497827
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 743625053524
EAN: 0743625053524
ASIN: B0000030Q7
Release Date: December 9, 1993
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Definitely worthless April 19, 2008
Red Thorn
Normally, I am quite tolerant of unpleasant music. This, however, was too horrendous for even me to listen to. After listening to the thirty-second preview clips from the English Folk Songs from Ralph Vaughan Williams, I was ready to throw up. They are all, without exception, too fast. In the lyrical, slow (dare I say singing?) movements, this results in a feeling of rushing through. In the last movement, Mr. Smith is simply unable to keep up, and the result is a technical travesty.
In addition to these poor choices of tempi, Mr. Smith appears to have no notion of what a bassoon is supposed to sound like, or even what a musical line is. His tone is thin, flat, and weak, utterly inappropriate for what he is doing. His lines are stagnant and dead in the water. When combined with the rushed tempi, this results in a performance that most middle schoolers could out-do. There are simply notes, badly produced and occasionally glaringly out of tune, without any sense of direction or line.
A cd to make into a drop spindle if ever there was one.
I wish I could give it 0 stars February 17, 2007
Sophia N. Tegart (Eugene, OR)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I recommend this CD to anyone who is having a hard day and needs a laugh. My roomate and I listen to this CD for that exact purpose, The playing is amateurish at best. It is a travesty that someone can make a recording just because they have the funds to make up for their lack of talent. This lack of talent is quite apparent in the pitch and tone. Real bassoonists do not sound like Daniel Smith.
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