Early 20th-century literature is awesome. Sadly there's almost nothing for us in the Romantic era for bassoons or almost any wind instrument. The whole Paganini-inspired virtuoso craze was awesome for pianists and violinists but composers had very little faith in wind instruments to keep up. The closest we have is the last piece Saint-Saëns wrote, this bassoon sonata.

The first unaccompanied piece for music, the Osbourne Rhapsody, is pretty fucking awesome.

If you want something more classical era, the Mozart bassoon concerto is famous, but what is really underplayed and awesome is the Weber Hungarian Fantasy.

If you like extremely modern, John Williams wrote a bassoon concerto, "The Five Sacred Trees".

For my favorite albums, Christopher Millard's "Melange" is awesome as well as his album of concerti. For something even more off the beaten path, Keesecker's "Bassoon Music of the Americas" is also a personal favorite.

If you want to know what I sounded like, I did in my senior recital Orselli's Divertimento on "Il Trovatore".

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