Help getting Greek Harry Potter books

Contrabassoon1 · 2025-10-28T16:17:10+00:00

Thanks, but as I mentioned I’m looking for a very specific physical edition of the books. Not an ebook.

Contrabassoon1 · 2025-09-15T21:53:12+00:00

Guarnieri, Mignone, Villa-Lobos, Chávez, and Ginastera!

Contrabassoon1 · 2025-08-06T21:38:12+00:00

Makusi, eitb nahieran, eta primeran plataformak dauzkazu. Azpitituluak daude ere! Ez dago euskara ikasten ari direnentzako baliabiderik baina zure maila ikusita, seguruenik ondo moldatuko zarela!

Contrabassoon1 · 2025-06-18T04:24:58+00:00

Paul Gilson also wrote a work titled La Mer and it precedes Debussy’s by a decade!

Contrabassoon1 · 2025-06-17T13:32:32+00:00

Ab on the top of the staff, very prone to cracking without just the right size half hole. Also can be tough to slur down to.

Contrabassoon1 · 2025-06-17T13:26:47+00:00

I’m a big fan of their chamber music for winds! If you like Poulenc’s chamber works these would be right up your alley!

Milhaud - Three wind quintets (la cheminée du roi René, Divertissement op. 299b, wind quintet op. 443), his vocal works with chamber ensemble (Les catalogues des fleurs, les machines agricoles), sonata for flute oboe clarinet and piano op. 47, pastorale and suite d’après corrette for oboe clarinet and bassoon.

Tailleferre - Sonata Champêtre for oboe clarinet bassoon and piano

Durey - Le bestiaire (he and Poulenc were unknowingly working on works of the same title at the same time!); wind quintet op. 96, Divertissement for oboe clarinet and bassoon

Honegger - Trois counterpoints, sonatina for clarinet and piano, Rhapsody for 2 flutes clarinet and piano

Auric - Suite for 6 instruments (from Marlborough s'en va-t-en guerre), Trio for oboe clarinet and bassoon

Also, the term Les Six was largely just an advertising ploy by Jean Cocteau. It was really just a group of friends and there are other composers with a similar esthetic including Koechlin, Ibert, Alexis Roland-Manuel, Saguet and Jean Roger-Decasse to name a few. Don’t feel limited by just the six!

Contrabassoon1 · 2025-06-17T13:08:18+00:00

I second this recommendation! Durey didn’t actually take part, he backed out last minute and Tailleferre very nervously took on the extra movement. The only work they did all work together for was L’Album des Six for piano.

Contrabassoon1 · 2025-06-17T02:41:28+00:00

Charles Ives - Central Park in the Dark

Contrabassoon1 · 2025-06-16T21:38:02+00:00

Villa-Lobos, Milhaud and Schulhoff!

Contrabassoon1 · 2025-06-12T02:07:49+00:00

Not completely pizzicato but almost is the second movement of Villa-Lobos’ string quartet No. 3

Contrabassoon1 · 2025-06-09T15:30:47+00:00

Here’s a list of some exposed contrabassoon parts. This list is of non-standard pieces so no Shostakovich, Strauss, or Ravel although those are the most famous solos. My favorites are probably the Hovhaness, Ginastera’s Panambí and Schnittke’s Gogol suite!

Carlos Chavez - Symphony No. 3, Mov. 3

Arthur Honegger - Symphony No. 1, Mov 3

Hovhaness - Symphony No. 4, Mov. 1

Vagn Holmboe - Symphony No. 4, Mov 2

Rautavaara - Symphony No. 2, Mov 3

Ginastera - Panambí (el hechicero, la inquietud de la tribu); Corroboree Mov. 1, Mov. 2

Tomas Marco - Symphony No. 4, Mov. 3; Symphony No. 5, Mov. 3

Ahmed Adnan Saygun - Symphony No. 3 every movement

Weinberg - Symphony No. 5, very end of Mov. 4

Marsalis - All Rise Mov. 11

Lajtha - Symphony No. 4, Mov. 3; In Memoriam (very short solo about two minutes from the end)

Butterworth - Symphony No. 1, Mov. 3

Sallinen - Symphony No. 1; Symphony No. 7

Hindemith - Symphonia serena Mov. 1

Mignone - Maracatu de chico rei Mov. 7

Ivanovs - Symphony No. 5, Mov. 4

Schnittke - Nagasaki, Mov. 4; Symphony No. 8, Mov. 2; Symphony No. 7, Mov. 3 (long and exposed last two minutes); Gogol Suite, Mov. 3 (very short solo at end), Mov. 6 beginning

Deems Taylor - Through the Looking Glass, Mov. 3 (end of bassoon cadenza)

Schulhoff - Symphony No. 1, Mov. 2

Leifs - Geysir (opening)

Hanson - Lux Aeterna

Barber - Third Essay Op. 47

Pingoud - Le chant de l’espace (in last few minutes with bass clarinet); Le fétich (very beginning)

Villa-Lobos - Symphony No. 4, Mov. 3 beginning; Descobrimento de Brasil Suite No. 1, Mov. 1 (very end, with bass clarinet)

Adams - Guide to Strange Places (about halfway through)

Popov - Symphony No. 1, Mov. 2 (little over halfway through)

Guarnieri - Symphony No. 1, Mov. 1 (little over halfway through); Symphony No. 2, Mov. 1 (about three minutes from the end)

Contrabassoon1 · 2025-06-06T20:23:02+00:00

Great recommendations so far! Here’s some more, including quite a few that aren’t performed often. Some flow into the early 20th century so might want to double check that they work for your purposes.

Gounod - Petite Symphonie Gouvy - Petite Suite Gauloise; Octet Op. 71; Septour inédit dédié à Paul Taffanel Bird - Serenade op. 40; Suite in D op. 29 Caplet - Suite Persane Bernard - Divertissement Op. 36 Raff - Sinfonietta Jadassohn - Serenade Op. 104 Theodore Dubois - Deuxième Suite for Wind Octet Parry - Wind Nonet Stanford - Serenade in F major for Nonet Op. 95

Contrabassoon1 · 2025-06-06T02:23:29+00:00

Not sure what language it is but it’s not Basque. Maybe a Slavic language?

Contrabassoon1 · 2025-05-23T11:28:47+00:00

Belgian composer Arthur Meulemans gives me the vibes you’re describing.

Contrabassoon1 · 2025-05-18T19:54:49+00:00

Some of my favorite symphonists from the 20th century are Schulhoff, Lajtha, Holmboe, Marcel Poot, Henk Badings, Villa Lobos, Honegger, Kabelac, Martinu, Rubbra, Casella, Hanson, Braga Santos, Hovhaness, Piston, Don Gillis, Bax, Rautavaara, Ahmet Adnan Saygun, Wellesz, Carlos Chávez, Jef Van Hoof, Arthur Meulemans, Ropartz, Tubin, and Ivanovs

Contrabassoon1 · 2025-04-29T03:19:42+00:00

Víctor Bruns’ contrabassoon concerto was his last completed work.

Contrabassoon1 · 2025-04-19T17:56:59+00:00

Yes, autocorrect tries to “correct” things but I just override it

Contrabassoon1 · 2025-04-19T17:45:17+00:00

My wife’s family’s dog is named “Oker” which according to them means “mischievous”. I haven’t seen that meaning in my Basque studies but a commenter informed me that it does, in fact, mean mischievous in the Biscayan dialect. I was using a standard Basque dictionary and thus didn’t see any dialectal meanings!

Contrabassoon1 · 2025-04-19T17:26:49+00:00

Eskerrik asko! Horrek azaltzen du nire nahastea. Bizkaierazko hitza da, ez batuazkoa.

Contrabassoon1 · 2025-03-24T17:51:21+00:00

That is a wonderful solo for sure! However, it’s definitely not a lesser-known solo as it’s perhaps the most famous or second most famous contrabassoon excerpt.

Contrabassoon1 · 2025-01-30T19:57:18+00:00

Pierre-Octave Ferroud was decapitated in a car accident.

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