I
have become utterly charmed by Mozart’s little homely bassoon concerto, which
comforts me strangely (like sitting in a patch of sun, like seeing the
beginning of spring buds greening oak branches on the bare trees on the hill)
when I am shaken in my own being, as I have been the last few days for no
particular reason.
The
version I love, having happened upon by chance, is by the Orchestre de la
Camerata Academica du Mozarteum de Salzbourg.
Looking
for an excerpt of it I can share with you, I find that the bassoonist is Rudolph
Klepac, and that that is a recording from June 1956—my birth year and month! Somehow we have found each other after
all that time, the glad music and I.
image: Carroll Bryant Legends: Mozart
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